Tuesday, June 26, 2012

A Reconnoisance at Leesburg


LEESBURG, March 11. – Col. Geary made a personal reconnoissance yesterday as far as Carlton Mills.  The enemy has completely fallen back.  His path was blocked up with ruins of hay, grain, stacks, &c.  Geary and officers went to the battle-field and buried whatever bodies they found there.

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

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