Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Skirmish At Eddyville -

A correspondent sends us a luminous account of the sacking of a house of bad repute in Eddyville by indignant citizens, who attacked it in three divisions, lead by trusty and tried generals and carried it by storm, the garrison leaving on the double-quick, taking a southern trail.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 1

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