Monday, August 13, 2012

A letter from Fortress Monroe states . . .

. . . that it is ascertained that the rebels intended to attack our camp at Newport News simultaneously with the assault of the Virginia on the fleet and were approaching under Magruder, some 10,000 strong, but the swollen creeks prevented their approach.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 2

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