Times’ Dispatch

An officer who left the National army before Yorktown, reports that he left Gen. McClellan in the best of spirits, and sanguine of his ability to drive the rebels out of Yorktown and Virginia. He says that when he left, the rebels were burning their barracks, an evidence of a preparation to evacuate or an expectation of being driven out.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1862, p. 1