Tuesday, May 22, 2012

From Washington


WASHINGTON, March 3. – The Senate to-day confirmed Gen. Morgan of Ohio, a Brigadier General of Volunteers.

The Assistant Postmaster General received a dispatch from Nashville yesterday saying the Federal flag floated over the Post Office there.  A special agent has charge of it for the present.

It is understood that Col. Blair had an interview with the President to-day respecting the appointment of Sigel as Major-General.  It is understood that the President will send his name to the Senate immediately for confirmation.


WASHINGTON, March 4. – From 600 to 1,000 barrels of flour belonging to the Confederates have been seized and stored here.

A woolen mill owned by a man named Davis which had been manufacturing Confederate cloth was seized with considerable stores.

Richard Washington, brother of the late John A. Washington is now confined at Harper’s Ferry.

The President has recognized Gerhardt Larson as Vice Consul of Sweden and Norway, to reside at Chicago.

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

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