Monday, April 4, 2011

Capt. Porter

We regret to learn Capt. Porter is seriously ill from the scalding he received in the Essex at the Fort Henry bombardment.  His lungs were dangerously affected by the inhalation of the hot steam. – Mo. Dem. 17th.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 20, 1862, p. 2

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