A correspondent before Yorktown writes as follows:
A few days since one of our gunboats discovered a long building on the shore, just below Gloucester, with a hospital flag flying from the top. They also saw a large number of troops at work around it, and supposing that they were building a battery in the rear of this building, they fired upon the soldiers whenever they appeared at either end, but were careful not to let a shot touch the house, as it might be what it was represented, when lo and behold the building was one day in flames, and in the rear was a battery of heavy cannon! But it was doomed to stand only for a short time, for eighteen 186 pound solid shot thrown from the midship gun of the Penobscot destroyed their works, and caused the rebels to disappear. Such are the tricks the rebels resort to, and which they consider honorable warfare.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862 p. 1
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