NEW YORK, May 28. – The Baltimore American of the 27th says Gen. Banks has already received a reinforcement of at least 13,000 well disciplined troops at Harper’s Ferry. Several car loads of siege guns weighing about six tons, have also been sent up from the Washington Navy Yard.
In one of the trains for Harper’s Ferry was the Assistant Secretary of War Watson and Gen. Hamilton and Staff, of the regular army.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 3
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