Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Killed and Wounded in Company C

A private letter received in town from Fort Donelson, gives the following names of the Killed and severely wounded.

KILLED.

Capt. J. S. Slaymaker,
George Howell,
Edward Peterson,
____ Myers,
C. H. Lenhart.


SEVERELY WOUNDED.

Lieut. W. H. Holmes,
Sergt. H. B. Doolittle.
Total loss – 5 killed and 25 wounded.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 21, 1862, p. 1

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