Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Our Fallen Heroes

The following dispatch was received last evening:

CAIRO, March 6, 1862.

TO JNO. L. SWITS:

Just arrived from Fort Donelson with the six bodies of our fallen heroes; leave in the morning by I. C. Railroad with military escort of four.

IRA M. GIFFORD.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, March 7, 1862, p. 1

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