Saturday, May 30, 2009

8th, 12th and 14th Regiments Taken Prisoners

We clip the following dispatch from the Davenport Gazette:

CAIRO, April 11.

To Edward Russell, Davenport, Iowa:

The 8th, 12th and 14th Iowa regiments were nearly all taken prisoners. The 16th was in the fight. All our troops suffered severely.

Capt. Littler lost his left arm.

Twenty-eight of our wounded are at Mound City – none of them from Scott county.

Will leave to-night for the field.

L. C. BURWELL

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862

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