NEW YORK, April 30. – A letter from Washington received by one of our merchants yesterday, states that the most positive information has been received from the vicinity of Memphis, that cotton in immense quantities has been destroyed throughout that section of the country, and it is now past any question that the plan of the rebels long declared is being put into active execution.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p 3
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Cotton Burning
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