Thursday, April 15, 2010

A brass secesh six pounder, captured at Pittsburgh . . .

. . . by a Wisconsin regiment, passed up the river Saturday on its way to Madison, on board the steamer Prima Donna. The gun belonged to the Washington artillery of New Orleans and was cast in that city.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

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