. . . says the Yankee Loss in taking Roanoke Island was “at least one thousand killed. Indeed, we have information that at Old Point the number is estimated at fifteen hundred killed. The beach is represented as being strewn with their dead bodies.” It turns out that our killed number less than fifty and our wounded about one hundred and fifty.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 2
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