We had a call yesterday . . .

. . . in our absence, from Dr. Hughes, of Keokuk, just returning from a visit to our sick and wounded Iowa soldiers in hospital in Paducah, Mound City and other points.  We understand that he reports our sick and wounded well provided for and well attended.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 2