Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Headquarters Mountain Department, Franklin, Va., Via Baltimore, May 17, 1862.

Unofficial dispatches, but considered reliable, announce that Princeton, capitol of Mercer, where Gen. Cox’s advance was stationed, was attacked and captured yesterday by rebels under Humphrey Marshall.  This morning the place was recaptured and the rebels defeated by Cox.  No particulars.  Scouts report the rebels have been reinforced.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 20, 1862, p. 2

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