To Hon. E. M. STANTON, Sec’y of War:
FT. MONROE, May 14. – We have Suffolk. It was taken last evening by Major Dodge. All is quiet.
Major General McClellan’s troops are at Cumberland.
(Signed.)
JOHN E. WOOL, Major General.
Cumberland is in Kent county, on York river, on the line of the Railroad leading to Richmond and about twenty-five miles east of the latter place.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3
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