Again the report is rife in our streets that Capt. Littler is among the killed at Fort Donelson. This time the rumor comes through a telegraphic dispatch from Chicago, sent by Geo. H. Parker, Esq., to the Democrat. No doubt such a report prevailed in Chicago, but we presume it to have been without foundation. The fact that Slaymaker’s death was telegraphed over the West through the regular dispatches; while no mention was made of that of Capt. Littler, and the additional circumstance of Mr. Haldeman giving the death of Capt. Slaymaker and other members of his company and making no mention of Littler, with whom he was personally acquainted, are proofs to us that the gallant Captain still lives, and will yet make his mark high up on the roll of fame.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 21, 1862, p. 1
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