From The Sixteenth

Lieut. Louis Bunde, of Co. B., 16th regiment, arrived in town on Saturday morning on the Pembina. He has an ugly though not dangerous wound in his left leg, caused by a piece of a shell passing through the limb. Lieut. B. denies with much warmth the insinuation that the Sixteenth showed any signs of cowardice. The had drilled with their arms only four days, and had not drilled in battalion at all. The general opinion among the army was that a large number of the enemy’s cannon had been taken. This was derived from the statements of prisoners and also of our men who were taken by the enemy and subsequently released. Col. Sanders and Adj. McCosh were completely exhausted on Sunday evening, having been compelled to attend to their duties afoot a good part of the time, which were thus rendered doubly arduous. The regiment was held in reserve the second day, and consequently did not participate in the fight then.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 21, 1862, p. 1