LA SALLE, Ill., Feb. 18. – A large meeting was held in this place to-night at Cady’s Hall to take action towards the relief of our wounded at Fort Donelson, there being from this place two Companies of the 11th Illinois, and one in Col. Lynch’s and one in the 55th Illinois regiment.
A committee of seven was appointed to go or send delegations to Fort Donelson to see that our wounded are properly taken care of, and to bring back the dead. Three hundred and seventy dollars was at once raised and placed in the hands of the committee, that they might at once proceed upon their mission, seventy of which was contributed by the Ladies Soldiers Aid Society.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 3
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