Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Important News If True


NEW YORK, March 12. – An Elizabeth City letter of March 4th to the Tribune says General Bragg with his forces numbering 7,000 arrived at Norfolk yesterday from Pensacola, which he evacuated after destroying the fortifications, guns, &c.

It is also said the rebels are calling all their spare forces into Norfolk, that they may be ready for any emergency.  The force at New Bern and other points in this State, numbering 20,000 or 30,000 drafted soldiers, together with the Rebel forces at Richmond and other points between Richmond and Norfolk, will, it is thought be thrown in the rear of the Union force attacking Norfolk from this direction.  Therefore the last grand battle of the campaign may be fought in this struggle to save Norfolk should the city be attacked.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 3

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