The special dispatch from Cairo, 11th, to the N. Y. Tribune, stating that a brigade of troops marched around New Madrid on Sunday last and took possession of Point Pleasant, thus cutting off communication of the rebels at the former place, corresponds with the letter of our friend “Diff” on the second page; so we presume our Iowa boys had a hand in that and if a battle came off at that place will again have a chance of being among the foremost. Somehow whenever there is a battle in the West there you find the Iowa boys and always in the thickest of the fight. Iowa through her noble sons is fast winning a glorious name.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 13, 1862, p. 1
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