A large number of wounded soldiers arrived here yesterday morning on the Pembina. They were mostly Illinois soldiers from the battle of Shiloh. Among them, however, were six of Hayden’s Dubuque battery, who were in the Pea Ridge fight. Among these was Mr. F. M. Thompson, of Black Hawk county, who was badly burned by an explosion of a limber chest belonging to his battery, containing several dozen cartridges. He was tossed ten or twelve feet into the air, but received no serious mound except the burning. His hair and whiskers were all burned off, and his breast and limbs very much singed.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 28, 1862, p. 1
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 28, 1862, p. 1
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