Friday, January 7, 2011

The Southern “gentlemen,” at the battle of Williamsburg . . .

. . . took a wounded New Jersey Captain prisoner, and cut off his ears.  If taken, our chivalrous friends who gave this little attention to a Jerseyman should be treated with the utmost leniency and distinguished consideration.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

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