The death of Gen. Fred W. Lander, announced in our dispatches this morning, will cast a deep shade of sorrow over our whole country. He was in truth a right gallant soldier and noble gentleman. Few men in our army can supply his place. He falls a victim to the Ball’s Bluff blunder, where he was seriously wounded, and from which he has never recovered. His heroism has kept him in the field when he should have been in the hospital, and he thus dies with his harness on. – Chi. Trib.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 1
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