(Special to World.)
WASHINGTON, April 30. – The Petersburg Express of day before yesterday, has a long editorial regarding the loss at New Orleans, and says the city was captured by our gunboats being encased with wet bales of hay, so that hot or cold shot were of no use. The Louisiana mounting 22 guns was sunk, the express says, by our steel pointed conical shot.
The cotton was destroyed by fire and the sugar emptied into the river. The specie in the banks was removed from the city, when Gen. Lovell returned.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 3
WASHINGTON, April 30. – The Petersburg Express of day before yesterday, has a long editorial regarding the loss at New Orleans, and says the city was captured by our gunboats being encased with wet bales of hay, so that hot or cold shot were of no use. The Louisiana mounting 22 guns was sunk, the express says, by our steel pointed conical shot.
The cotton was destroyed by fire and the sugar emptied into the river. The specie in the banks was removed from the city, when Gen. Lovell returned.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 3
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