Although yesterday morning was the coldest we have had for more than a week, yet the day was delightful. The sun shone out brightly, and the ice and snow, the accumulation of the winter, rapidly disappeared beneath its rays. The sidewalks of the main streets were crowded with citizens discussing the progress of the war. Not content with the actual occurrences of the conflict, some quidnunc got up the report that Gen. Curtis had been surrounded, and, with twenty thousand troops, had been taken prisoner. Although the reports bore such an improbability on its face, yet many swallowed it, and commenced to retail it, or more properly wholesale it, to gaping crowds of sympathizing listeners. Perhaps they will feel all the better, however, when they learn that the news came by the curbstone line, and that their fears for our brave General were groundless.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 18, 1862, p. 1
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