NP: June 11, 1864 Boston Daily Advertiser: From Fortress Monroe

From Fortress Monroe.

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Quiet with Gen. Butler

FORTRESS MONROE, June 9.—A steamer from Bermuda Hundred reports, all quiet with Butler’s forces, with the exception of a little firing in the direction of Petersburg this morning.

There is no intelligence from Grant’s army.  No firing has been heard in that direction for two days.¹

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