Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Mobile to be attacked -- Burnside Expedition

NEW YORK, Jan. 25. – A letter dated aboard the frigate Niagara off Ship Island the 11th gives as rumors that Mobile may soon be attacked.

A letter from Hatteras Inlet says the loss of the New York won’t seriously interfere with the efficiency of the Burnside Expedition, there being a good supply of material aboard other vessels.

Gen. Foster’s brigade would soon move towards Roanoke Island as circumstances should decide.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 2

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