WASHINGTON, March 22. – It is asserted as the prevailing
opinion that by this time the national flag floats over New Orleans, and that
our mortar fleet would attack the rebel fort at the [Rigolets] within two days
of the departure from Ship Island of the last steamer, which brought the
intelligence north.
The Secretary of War has addressed a complimentary letter to
Lieut. Morse, officers and men of the Cumberland for their valor in the recent
engagement with the Merrimac.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 4
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