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| General P. G. T. Beauregard |
WAR DEPARTMENT, April 13, 1862.
Major General GEORGE B. McCLELLAN,
Headquarters near Yorktown:
General Franklin has started for Fort Monroe, via Baltimore, this afternoon. Nothing new. Beauregard is reported to be dead, but this comes from General Banks as a report, and is not relied on.
EDWIN M. STANTON.
Official Records, Series I., Vol. 11, Part 3, Page 94.
Reports from the field sometimes had accurate information. And other times they merely relayed wild rumors. Possibly the rumor grew from the death of Albert Sydney Johnston at Shiloh.
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