The news of the capture of Yorktown, yesterday morning,
spread a general feeling of satisfaction among our citizens, and even some who
were never known to smile over a Union victory before, or who usually endeavor
to belittle everything of the kind, were loud in their praises of McClellan and
exultation over his victory. That brave
officer has achieved a comparatively bloodless victory, one which, if rightly
followed up, will hasten the end of the rebellion. So may it be.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 6, 1862, p. 1
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