Another Victory

Again, with heartfelt gratitude, we announce another victory. Burnside’s fleet is beginning to make itself felt on the coast of North Carolina. The Federal forces have now a fair foothold at Roanoke Island, and thence will push forward into the rebel State. We have few particulars of this engagement, but sufficient to show that it is a complete victory, and the rebels can no more withstand our troops on water than on the land. While every victory encourages the Union forces, it discourages the insurgents. Soon they will be forced to lay down their arms, or resort to the desperate alternative of Cobb and Co., and lay waste to their beautiful homes.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 12, 1862, p. 1