NEW YORK, May 8. – A special to the times this p.m., dated Fortress Monroe, 7, says the rebels burnt their gunboats in York River yesterday morning.
We have taken many prisoners in small companies, but I cannot learn of any large bodies having been captured.
Two companies of the 8th Illinois Cavalry are reported captured by the enemy.
General McClellan was struck by a piece of shell but was not injured.
The opinion prevails that if Franklin’s Divisions receive reinforcements in time a great part of the rebel army will be captured. The roads are in very bad condition by which our advance is greatly impeded.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday May 10, 1862, p. 3
We have taken many prisoners in small companies, but I cannot learn of any large bodies having been captured.
Two companies of the 8th Illinois Cavalry are reported captured by the enemy.
General McClellan was struck by a piece of shell but was not injured.
The opinion prevails that if Franklin’s Divisions receive reinforcements in time a great part of the rebel army will be captured. The roads are in very bad condition by which our advance is greatly impeded.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday May 10, 1862, p. 3
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