FT. MONROE, April 27 – A boat containing 4 black men and 1 white man arrived here this morning from Portsmouth. They report the Merrimac will come out soon.
A dispatch in yesterday’s Richmond papers received by flag of truce dated Mobile, Friday, says the Union gunboats passed Forts Jackson and St. Phillips at 4 o’clock Thursday morning and at 1 o’clock p.m. the same day were before New Orleans.
A rumor was current in Norfolk last night that New Orleans had surrendered.
Very few troops were at Norfolk or in the vicinity of it.
It was rumored that Com. Tatnal had been removed from command of the Merrimac.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4
A dispatch in yesterday’s Richmond papers received by flag of truce dated Mobile, Friday, says the Union gunboats passed Forts Jackson and St. Phillips at 4 o’clock Thursday morning and at 1 o’clock p.m. the same day were before New Orleans.
A rumor was current in Norfolk last night that New Orleans had surrendered.
Very few troops were at Norfolk or in the vicinity of it.
It was rumored that Com. Tatnal had been removed from command of the Merrimac.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4
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