Death of a Soldier on the Cars

Some Iowa soldiers passed through this city on Friday, on their way home from Missouri, taking the morning train on the Peoria and Oquawka Rail Road to Galesburg.  One of the men was in very poor health, and too sick to sit up in the car, and lay lengthwise on a seat.  Soon after lying down he closed his eyes, and his comrades and other passengers who sat near, thought in a few minutes that he had fallen asleep, but on the conductor coming round soon after to take up the tickets, it was discovered that the poor fellow was dead.  The corpse was sent on to Galesburg. – Peoria Trans. 10^th.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, February 15, 1862, p. 2