Thursday, February 24, 2011

Federal Loss Estimated

The Chicago Sanitary Commission received a dispatch from Cairo, last evening, from official sources, that the Federal loss would not exceed 300 killed, 600 wounded, and 100 missing – in all 1,000.  On other estimates have been received of the casualties in the action. – Chi. Tribune, 18th.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 19, 1862, p. 1

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