FORTRESS MONROE, March 26. – Three deserters arrived to-day
in a boat from the south side of James River.
They belonged to a North Carolina regiment, and report that the Merrimac
has been daily expected to come out and attack the Monitor for the past three
days.
The Jamestown made a reconnoissance to-day coming down some
distance below Craney Island.
The Deserters represent that there was s terrible panic
amongst the rank and file of the rebel army, on account of the number of
Federal victories.
The newspapers are carefully kept from the rebel
soldiers. They have been so often
imposed upon by false rumors of rebel victories that they are much
dissatisfied.
The deserters say that during the excitement that prevailed
in Norfolk, immediately after the fall of Roanoke, that if a demand had been
made upon Gen. Huger, he would have immediately capitulated.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 3
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