Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Federal Occupations in Georgia and Fla.


WASHINGTON, March 10. – The Navy Department has received the following:

Baltimore, March 10.

To Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy.

I arrived this morning and will come on in the next 4 o’clock train.  The enemy has abandoned his heavy fortifications at St. Simons and Brunswick Georgia, and Fernandina and St. Mary’s, Florida, are ours.

(Signed.)
C. H. DAVIS, Captain U. S. Army

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

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