The news we give this morning is of a very different tenor from that served up to the public for some time back. We have had nothing but rebel defeats, surrenders, evacuations, &c., until to-day. Now we have to chronicle the fact that Gen. Banks has been driven out of the Shenandoah valley and across the Potomac – Baltimore is ready for a rise and Washington is in alarm. Too much strategy!
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 1
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