[from the diary of Samuel Johnson of the 1st Massachusetts Independent Light Battery]
April 29th
To day the cannonading at the Point
continues quite heavy and rapid. also a
brisk fire from Yorktown is added to
it. News of the capture of New Orleans
and the forts on the lower Mississippi
reach us to day. Pleasant and quite
warm.
[transcription by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]
MSS 8493