NEW YORK, Jan. 26. – Washington specials state that
Assistant Secretary Fox feels confident the Burnside Expedition has ere this
struck a blow which with Gen. Buell’s advance into Tennessee will cut off all
rebel communication with Virginia and States South.
Gen. McClellan says if the expedition failed we should have
heard of it through the rebels ere this.
The steamer Karnak from Nassau 20th, arrived this morning. The steamer Kate arrived at Nassau on the
18th, 48 hours from Charleston with 800 bales of cotton, 8 passengers and
flying the rebel flag. The gunboat Flambeau
left immediately. The cotton culture has
been commenced at Grand Bahamas.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 4
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