Friday, July 13, 2012

The New Treasury Notes – What General Wool Says of the Naval Engagement


WASHINGTON, March 10., The Secretary of the Treasury has awarded the Contract for the ninety million legal tender Treasury notes engraving to the American and the National bank note companies of New York.

The following is copied from an official report of General Wool, dated Tuesday:  Nothing of importance has occurred today.  The chief Engineer of the Monitor says that three balls from that vessel passed through the Merrimac.  The Monitor suffered very little although she was truck twenty-three times.

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

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