Monday, July 18, 2011

Returned

Mr. Ira M. Gifford and Dr. McCarn returned to this city Saturday morning, from Fort Donelson, where, as is known, they procured the bodies of our fallen soldiers.  They look as if they had seen rough service, but no doubt would be able to endure it again in the same cause.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 10, 1862, p. 1

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