Thursday, June 10, 2010

Gen. V. P. Van Antwerp . . .

. . . arrived in our city yesterday en route for Leavenworth, to take the position of Adjutant General upon the staff of Gen. Lane. – Mo. Democrat, 7th.

Gen. Van Antwerp and Col. Merritt, to of Iowa’s most ultra pro-slavery Democrats, are on Jim Lane’s staff, and will assist him in carrying out his policy should his expedition go forward.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, February 11, 1862, p. 2

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