The Fredericksburg
Recorder mentions the following remarkable fact.
The Yankees have thrown from 4,000 to 5,000 shot and shell
from their various war steamers and tugs within the last six months at the
soldiers manning our guns in the various batteries on the Potomac yet, most
extraordinary as it may appear, they never destroyed life, nor even were guilty
of drawing Southern blood until last week, if we except the very slight scratch
received by a soldier on the 1st of June at Acquia creek. Surely a kind Providence must be shielding
the heads of our soldiers, when only one such disaster occurs in a department
whose soldiers are numbered by the thousands.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 3
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