During the hottest of the battle on the Saturday before the surrender of Fort Donelson, two Kentucky regiments were brought face to face – one on the federal and the other on the rebel side. In each of these regiments were two companies from Henderson county, and in each of the companies were two brothers. The one in Capt. Holloway’s company – battling for the old “time honored banner” – was dangerously wounded, with his rebel brother escaped unhurt and was taken prisoner. Old school-mates in these companies were forced to shed each other’s blood by the infamous authors of this infamous rebellion. What punishment at all proportionalte to their crime can be meted out to their traitorous leaders?
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 1, 1862, p. 2
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