Hon. M. L. McPherson . . .

. . . for six years a State Senator of Iowa, has been appointed a commissary of Subsistence, and assigned to the staff of Gen. McKean, at Jefferson City, Missouri.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, February 15, 1862, p. 2



From Pittsburg Landing

We received a private letter yesterday from Lt. Col. Sanders, under date of near Pittsburg, April 14, in which he says, that the 16th regiment is still in camp, but expected to move into Gen. McKean’s division on the morrow. They were daily and hourly expecting another attack, in which case, he says, there will be a tremendous battle. It had been raining almost a week and was quite chilly, until the previous day. The consequence was that, one-half the men and officers had had the diarrhea. The Lt. Col. had not been exempted, and in the consequence had just arisen from a sick bed, although he had not had off his clothes for ten days. The roads were utterly impassable for teams, so it was supposed they could not soon leave that locality. He adds, “a WEEKLY GAZETTE was received in camp to-day, the first Davenport paper we have seen since leaving St. Louis. It is now going the rounds, the compliment of first reading being paid me.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 24, 1862, p.1

A Key West letter to the Boston Journal contains the following:–

“That the rebels anticipate a speedy peace is evident from the fact that an officer of the steamer R. R. Cuyler, when in Havana a few days since, met a friend, who had recently read a letter addressed to a sea captain in Nassau by the owner of the vessel which he commanded, a prominent merchant in Charleston, S.C. The captain wrote to his owner for advice as to what to do with the ship. In reply the Charlestonian said – “Do nothing; peace will be declared in less than sixty days.” This statement, coming as it does from the very fountain head of the rebellion, is certainly significant, and taken in connection with the reports made here almost daily by persons from the South, goes far to confirm the opinion expressed a day or two since by Flag Officer McKean, who said that three months would end the war. God grant his words may prove true.”

– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Wednesday, April 9, 1862 & also in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1962