Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1903 — In Battle with the Merrimac. [ARTICLE]

In Battle with the Merrimac.

Soldiers of the Twentieth tndfaftt in* fantry wefe one'll thorn In the flesh 1 of the Confederates on the Merrttaac. They passed a winter at. Tort Monroe. They also encamped at Newport News, wherethey were at the tithe the Merrhnao fhnght the Cungreta. The Confederatsa wanted to take possession of the Congress, bat the Hoosiers deployed on the beach In face of a hostile fin and pt*» vented the enemy from gaining the prize, In May of 1883 they went over to Nor> .folk.