Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Com. Foote at Fort Pillow

PHILADELPHIA, April 15. – A special dispatch from Washington to the Bulletin, says that a dispatch was received by the War Department this morning from Com. Foote, Saying he is ready to attack Fort Pillow, having succeeded in getting a position for his gunboats in the river below the Fort. He has no doubt of success.

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862, p. 3

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