Thursday, April 15, 2010

The capture of New Orleans . . .

. . . is a heavy blow to the Rebels and must discourage them greatly. Savannah, if it has not already, will soon fall. Only Mobile and Charleston, of all the important Southern ports, will be left. – Probably we shall not hear a great deal more about the inefficiency of the blockade.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

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