Saturday, April 25, 2009

The Gunboat Winona Reported Sunk at Port Hudson – Stonewall Jackson said to be at Vicksburg with 40,000 Re-enforcements

NEW YORK, Jan. 25. – Advices from New Orleans state that on Thursday, January 8th, P.M. there was a rumor there that the Winona; one of our gunboats, had been sunk by the south battery at Port Hudson.

It is reported that Stonewall Jackson with 40,000 men had been re-enforced at Vicksburg.

There was nothing from Galveston up to noon of the 8th.

– Published in The Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio, Thursday, January 29, 1863

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