. . . has an article on the Defense of the Mississippi urging its importance. It speculates on the consequences if Island No. 10 should be evacuated. It uses this language:
“If Island No 10 should be evacuated – if at a future time Fort Pillow should prove insufficient to check the descent of the the fleet of the enemy’s gunboats – what then?”
Great as is the capacity of the rebels for concealing their losses, and downright lying this is astonishing. Two weeks after the whole rebel army and the most of their flotilla – an army of five thousand men, one hundred pieces of artillery &c. &c. – were captured – when the army was imprisoned and our own troops in charge of the guns at No. 10 – the Appeal puts the question to its readers – what if Island No. 10 should be evacuated? This is the most audacious attempt at public deception during the war.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1
“If Island No 10 should be evacuated – if at a future time Fort Pillow should prove insufficient to check the descent of the the fleet of the enemy’s gunboats – what then?”
Great as is the capacity of the rebels for concealing their losses, and downright lying this is astonishing. Two weeks after the whole rebel army and the most of their flotilla – an army of five thousand men, one hundred pieces of artillery &c. &c. – were captured – when the army was imprisoned and our own troops in charge of the guns at No. 10 – the Appeal puts the question to its readers – what if Island No. 10 should be evacuated? This is the most audacious attempt at public deception during the war.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1
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