April 26.—We have just heard that the French fleet has had a battle with the . Federal fleet, and whipped it, and taken New Orleans. All are much rejoiced. There is really an armistice.

Kate Cumming: A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
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