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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