Thursday, May 5, 2011

Mr. Eads, private in the . . .

. . . 16th [sic] regiment, and brother to Jas. D. Eads, former School superintendent of Iowa, died in the hospital at Keokuk on Tuesday last.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 1, 1862, p. 1

NOTE:  The Gazette is in error.  Archibald D. Eads was a member of Company I, 15th Iowa Infantry.  He died of measles Feb. 25, 1862.  See the Iowa Roster, Volume 2, p. 937

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