The Blockade Raised

BUDD’S FERRY, March 9. – Gen. Hooker reports that all the enemy’s batteries in front of his line were abandoned and the guns spiked, among which were some valuable pieces.  This virtually opens the Potomac and raises the goose blockade.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 4