Thursday, May 26, 2011

Returned

Mr. J. A. Strasser, the popular musician, with eight others of his band returned to this city on Friday evening.  The band to which they were attached was mustered out of service at Rolla on the 24th ult., by order of Maj. Gen. Halleck.  They have been stationed at Rolla, with their regiment, the 44th Illinois, ofr some months.  Their arrival makes the Union band again full.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 3, 1862, p. 1

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