When the Eastern Queen, at New York from Newbern, sailed, a “Railroad Monitor,” understood to have been designed by General Burnside, was in process of construction at Newbern. Carpenters were preparing a huge framework, to be placed over a locomotive engine and to be covered with railroad iron from the top to the track. The car is to be made capable of carrying two guns, one at either end, and will be used on the railroad which runs from Newbern to Beaufort, and also on the railroad from Newbern to Bachelor’s Creek, in the direction of Kingston and Goldsboro. The bridge over the Trent river near Beaufort and over Bachelor’s Creek, which were burned by the retreating rebels, are nearly finished again; and the new Monitor, it is believed will do excellent service in guarding the country through which the railroads pass.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2
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