Sunday, July 21, 2013

Four Or Forty-One

The telegraph yesterday morning told us that our troops entered Yorktown ’41 hours’ after the rear of the enemy had left, and so we announced in our Extra.  Later dispatches put the time four hours, which is probably correct, and much more satisfactory.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 6, 1862, p. 1

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