NEW YORK, May 17. – Com Foote is not coming East, but remains at Cleveland until he is sufficiently recovered to return to the flotilla.
The report about the negro brigade at Port Royal is contradicted. It was contemplated once but is now defunct.
The steamer Oriole from Newbern the 12th, has arrived. No news of importance.
The health of the troops is good.
Newbern is being fortified.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 4
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