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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06107.19 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Ship Island, Mississippi Type: Broadside Date: 2 May 1862 Pagination: 1 p. ; 23.2 x 16.9 cm Order a Copy
Union Soldiers' newspaper printing correspondence between Commodore David G. Farragut and the Mayor of New Orleans (it is unclear which mayor, there were six in 1862). Copied from the "New Orleans Cresent" of 29 April 1862. Also includes a column titled "Eight Great Blunders" copied from the "Religious Herald," a Baptist newspaper out of Richmond, Virginia. Lists eight greatest blunders of the Confederacy, including #2: "In believing that there would be a divided North, and an apathetic Federal Government." List of the deaths of six men in the 13th Connecticut regiment since leaving New York. Says a tent was donated by the people of New Haven, Connecticut and that a library of 270 volumes can found under its canopy.
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