Our loss Sunday at Pittsburg Landing heavy, embracing camp equipage and 36 field guns. By two o’clock Monday we had retaken our camp and batteries with forty of the enemy’s guns. Major Hunter, 32d Ills., killed; Col. Logan 31st Ills. severly wounded; Col Hall 16th Ills. killed; Major Eaton acting Col. 18th Ills. fatally wounded.
Capt. Carron, one of Gen. Grant’s scouts, shot in the head; Major Page of the 57th Illinois, killed; Gen. Grant wounded slightly in the ankle; Gen. Smith Severly wounded; Col. Peabody of the 25th Missouri, severly wounded; Col. Crufts, acting Brigadier, shot through right shoulder; Lieutenant Co. Ransom, 11th Illinois, wounded badly in the head; Capt. Dillard, 18th, Capt. Mace, 5th and Capt. Carter 11th, killed.
– Published in the Daily State Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862
Friday, January 2, 2009
Cairo, April 9 [1862]
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