MUSCATINE, IOWA, May 3,
1862.
To Major Brayman, A.
A. General 1st Division:
SIR: Having been
wounded in the hand on the first day of the battle of Pittsburg Landing, I was
unable to write out my report myself, and entrusted that duty to other
hands. I gave full directions concerning
the same, but by inadvertence, I suppose, the names of Lieut. Col. M. M. Price
and Major John Shane, of the 13th Iowa, are not mentioned. I take this occasion to call particular
attention to these two gentlemen. They
both acted with the greatest coolness and intrepidity, and were both disabled
on the first day of the battle. – Lieut. Col. Price by the falling of a limb of
a tree, and Major Shane by a minie ball in the arm near the shoulder.
Respectfully,
A. M. HARE,
Col. Commanding
Brigade.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, May 7, 1862, p. 2
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