A soldier in Capt. Price’s company, 13th regiment, who enlisted from Martinsburg, received a letter a short time ago while at Jefferson City, stating that his house had caught fire in the night, and burned down; that his wife in endeavoring to save the children, had her shoulder broken by a falling beam; and that one of the children, while the mother was taking them to a neighbor’s house, was so badly frozen that its limbs would have to be amputated. The letter was signed by Mr. Mallone, one of the most respectable men in the township. The soldier with considerable trouble and expense obtained a short furlough and hastened home, and found the story wholly untrue. Some malicious scoundrel had written the letter for some base purpose, and forged the name of Mr. Mallone. Such a scamp deserves to be ferreted out and punished. – Keokuk Co. News.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, February 15, 1862, p. 2
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