Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Columbus being Evacuated


WASHINGTON, March 2. – A dispatch was received to-day from Com. Foot saying that Lieut. Phelps, sent with a flag of truce to Columbus, has returned, and reports Columbus being evacuated.  He saw the rebels burning their winter quarters and removing heavy guns on the bluffs but leaving those in the water batteries.  The indications were that the town of Columbus together with the military stores, &c. had been burned.

Gen. Shields succeeds Gen. Lander in his command.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 3

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