In all the late battles . . .

. . .the Union armies have triumphed.  By sea and land, in front and rear, in Kentucky, in Tennessee, in Alabama, in Virginia, in South Carolina, and now in North Carolina, the foes of the nation have been defeated.  Our armies are preparing for still further movements, too, in almost every direction, and let the conspirators beware of the “ides of March.”

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 2