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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Iowa Items

The Hawkeye states that the Mississippi river is rising with a rapidity never known to the oldest inhabitant. The old Father of Waters in assisting the Federal Government in squelching out the rebellion. The Lower Mississippi is threatened with inundations of several characters “respectively.”

Lieutenant Colonel Gallighan of the 4th Iowa Infantry has resigned his commission and gone home.

Brigadier General Dodge, and Col. Bussey were in St. Louis on the 4th.

There were 7,575 letters sent from the Tipton Post-Office during the last quarter.

Three bridges have been swept away on the Skunk river in Story and adjacent counties.

Mr. Lindsey Lewis and Miss Rebecca Elizabeth Ward of Hamilton county, were married the other day in a sled, in a storm, out on the prairie! The Story county Advertiser gives us the above gratifying intelligence.

At a meeting held in a school house in Greenfield, [Adair] county, it was resolved that the effort on the part of the Federal Government to put down the rebellion is “unconstitutional.” Iowa traitors are not all dead yet!

– Published in the Daily State Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Friday, April 11, 1862

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