Culpable Carelessness

A correspondent writing from Ship Island, says of a late expedition to Biloxi, that the men landed without molestation, and were marching up to the town with unloaded muskets, when they came upon a party of mounted men and a piece of artillery, coming to receive them. The Colonel concluded that, under these circumstances, the better part of valor was to retreat, and gave the order accordingly.

– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Wednesday, April 9, 1862