Monday, September 13, 2010

New York Items

NEW YORK, May 7. – Among the passengers on the Persia were Minister Cameron, Bayard Taylor and Bishop Lewis of Ontina. He has $800,000 in specie.

Advices from Burnside’s division state that a regiment of North Carolinians has been organized, Capt. Potter of Gen. Foster’s staff being appointed Colonel and two companies had left for Washington, N.C. to form a nucleus of the regiment.

Large numbers of Union men and voluntarily come and took the oath of allegiance, and they will be armed and equipped by Burnside to defend their homes against the rebels.

Our troops have captured horses enough to mount two companies of cavalry, and make frequent dashes among the rebels.

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

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