Correspondence

We surrender our usual editorial space this morning to correspondents.  The letter from the 11th Iowa regiment is late in reaching us, but gives so graphic an account of the Battle at Pittsburg, and the active part taken in it by the Iowa troops, that in justice to them we publish it with pleasure.  Not a regiment of the eleven Iowa had on that field, but fought heroically, and to them, as much as to the troops of any other State, is to be attributed to the fact that the Federal forces were not entirely cut to pieces the first day of the engagement.

The letter from St. Louis is by a prominent lawyer of that city.  It will be found to be an outspoken document.  It reads as though our friend were somewhat prejudiced against Gen. Grant.  In the first flush of the unexpected and triumphant victory at Fort Donelson, praise was generally awarded to Grant, and it was while the feeling was on the country that the President nominated him as Major General.  His remarks in relations to Gen. Sturgis’ habits and views are fully sustained by divers[e] articles in the St. Louis Democrat, the only really independent journal of that city.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, May 7, 1862, p. 2