Rev. C. C. Van Derveer

We are gratified to learn from Mr. John N. Rogers, who has received a dispatch to that effect from Mr. Burwell, that Rev. Mr. Van Derveer, of this city, the Chaplain of the Eighth regiment, came safely out of the battle at Pittsburg Landing. We should not be at all surprised to hear that he was in the thickest of that fight, for, though by his profession prohibited from taking part in the conflict, yet his impulsive spirit and enthusiasm for the cause would lead him where the balls fell thickest and fastest, regardless of personal danger.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 1