Thursday, July 8, 2010

From Yorktown

HEADQUARTERS NEAR YORKTOWN, April 26. – Still raining; roads nearly impassable.

The rebels in Yorktown opened fire on three canal boats passing into Wormley’s creek. No damage was done.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4

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