Monday, July 22, 2013

Yorktown

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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