The Cincinnati Commercial thus alludes to our gallant fellow citizen who was so badly wounded while carrying the colors of the noble 2d Iowa regiment in storming Fort Donelson:
Henry B. Doolittle, formerly of this city, for the past three or four years a resident of Davenport, Iowa, volunteered, early in May last, in the 2d Iowa Regiment. Previous to the battle at Fort Donelson this regiment had charge of prisoners in McDowell’s College, near St. Louis, (some 1600 rebels.) Mr. Doolittle was color bearer for the 2d Iowa Infantry, and in the charge on the 16th inst., under Gen. Smith’s command, was shot in the abdomen, two inches below the navel, also in right leg below the knee, and in the right shoulder. The surgeons pronounce him in a critical condition. He is now at Mound City in the Hospital. His brother, who resides here, has gone to remove him, if possible, to this place.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, March 5, 1862, p. 1
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