Sunday, September 19, 2010

From Fortress Monroe

FORTRESS MONROE, May 7. – The Merrimac came out to-day but did nothing.

A runner brought by mail boat from Yorktown stated that the enemy had crossed the Chickahominy and destroyed the bridges [Bottom of the article cut off.]

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday May 10, 1862, p. 3

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