Again we surrender our usual editorial space to correspondents. The official report of Col. Tuttle, of the killed and wounded of the Iowa 2d regiment at the battle of Fort Donelson, is a valuable document and one that will not only be read with great interest by every one in Iowa, but be preserved for future reference. The excellent letter of Mr. H. of Co. C., Iowa 2d Regiment is one of the most detailed and graphic descriptions we have yet had of this engagement. The list of killed and wounded of his company, which he furnished us, we have omitted, as it will be found embodied in the official report of Col. Tuttle. The noble conduct of the brave sons of Iowa at Fort Donelson, Belmont and Springfield, sheds a luster on our State that will endure as long as the history of our republic and will proudly connected for years to come with the great rebellion that broke out in the United States in the year 1861 and was only suppressed by the entire subjection of the rebel States participating in it.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 28, 1862, p. 2
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