. . . 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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