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

   

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in June 1864

From Fortress Monroe.

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Quiet with Gen. Butler.

FORTRESS MONROE, June 9 [1864].—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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  1. “From Fortress Monroe.” Boston Daily Advertiser (Boston, MA), June 11, 1864, p. 1, col. 4 ↩

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