. . . releases the formidable squadron which has been held at
Fortress Monroe to guard against her depredations. She is no longer the skeleton in our national
closet. The Monitor and other iron-clad
gunboats are now at liberty to finish the work of repossessing the United
States forts on the coast. It would not
be surprising to hear of her in a few days at Wilmington N C., clearing the way
for the destruction of the railroad communication between Virginia and the
Southern coast. Or she may appear under
the walls of Sumter, or at the Charleston docks. There is much that she could do, and she
should not remain inactive for a single day.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, May 16, 1862, p. 2
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