Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The First Rock Island Company . . .

. . . which left there last April, and re-enlisted for the war, was in the thickest of the fight at Fort Donelson, Commanded by First Lieutenant Kochler.  They had five men wounded, and two taken prisoners.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 27, 1862, p. 1

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