Thursday, September 30, 2010

Murder

WASHINGTON, May 5. – D. B. Lathrop, operator of the U. S. Military telegraph office died last night from injuries by the explosion of a torpedo place by the rebels in the deserted telegraph office at Yorktown.  Mr. Lathrop was a resident of Springfield, Ohio and was highly esteemed.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 4

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