Monday, July 25, 2011

New York, March 9 [1862]

The Tribune’s Ft. Monroe special states that the frigate Cumberland had a crew of 500 and nearly half were lost.  A negro, who swam ashore, reports the loss about one hundred.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 11, 1862, p. 1

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