Monday, June 25, 2012

To be Garrisoned


NEW YORK, March 12. – All the principal forts in the Harbor of New York will be garrisoned by order of Gov. Morgan.  The five New York volunteer artillery enlisted and instructed for heavy artillery service, and recently ordered to garrison the forts in the vicinity of the Capital has been retained and under orders received to-day, will be apportioned in companies to the different forts in New York harbor.

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

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