The whole country will mourn the death of Gen. Lander. Of northern birth, he had lived a life of adventure in the great plains of the West, and won there an undoubted reputation as one of the brave.
Wounded in the disastrous affair at Ball’s Bluff, Lander went his wounds unhealed to take command of [a] division on the Upper Potomac. All his movements there were marked with great energy and undaunted personal bravery, and the warm meed of praise bestowed upon him by Secretary Stanton, for his achievement at Blooming Gap, had hardly died upon the public ear before the chivalrous soldier fell a victim to a death hastened and made inevitable, fatigue and exposure adding to the illness resulting from his wound. God rest the brave. – Buffalo Express.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 10, 1862, p. 2
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