Sunday, June 13, 2010

Washington Items

WASHINGTON, April 29. – Lieut. Robinson is ordered to the command of the Battery E. A. Stevens, commonly by erroneously called the Naugatuck, at Fortress Monroe.

The Secretary of the Treasury is now prepared to bay all indebtedness of a date prior to the 1st of February, 40 per cent. in cash.

The Emancipation Commissioners met to-day. Several petitions were filed, and, during the morning, thirty of forty persons waited on the Board for information regarding the mode of procedure.

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

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