The greatest portion of the barracks of the 18th Illinois regiment was burned to the ground about noon to-day, and the building would have been destroyed had it not been for our firemen, who in this as in all other instances, were “prompt to the rescue.”
The barracks were two story rough board affairs put up at a cost perhaps of $5,000. About three-fifths of them were totally destroyed. – Cairo Gazette 8th.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 17, 1862, p. 2
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