Thursday, November 26, 2009

The Boston Commercial Bulletin states . . .

. . . on what it considers reliable and indisputable authority, that an extraordinary effort is to be made by emissaries from the rebel government, as well as by rebel sympathizers in England, to furnish and fit out swift sailing iron clad steamers, not only for the purpose of breaking the blockade, but to successfully cope, if they are allowed the opportunity, with our own navy, or make a raid on some unprotected harbor.

– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, January 3, 1863

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