Friday, February 19, 2010

Behind the Times

The Dubuque Herald of last Monday announces the arrival in that city of “Capt. Getchell’s company of 82 men for the 17th regiment, now forming at Keokuk.” The 17th regiment has been mustered in and left for St. Louis last week, as our contemporary should have known.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 25, 1862, p. 1

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