NEW YORK, April 28 – Advices per the Connecticut state that the rebel steamer Florida has been captured by the U. S. bark Pursuit.
Forts Barrancas and McRae have been evacuated by the rebels.
The Connecticut brought eight ex-members of the Galveston Artillery, who escaped from impressments.
Every fort, except Tampa, on the coast of Florida, is evacuated by the rebels.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4
Forts Barrancas and McRae have been evacuated by the rebels.
The Connecticut brought eight ex-members of the Galveston Artillery, who escaped from impressments.
Every fort, except Tampa, on the coast of Florida, is evacuated by the rebels.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4
