FROM THE 16TH REGIMENT

Mrs. W. P. Campbell received a letter yesterday from her brother, W. G. Fearing, of the 16th regiment, in which he says, “Our regiment got badly cut up the first day, there being about one hundred and thirty killed and wounded.” This don’t look much as if the 16th regiment ran! He says, “The same boys that went through the siege at Fort Donelson, say that it was but a skirmish compared with this battle.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1862, p. 1