Most of our readers will remember this person, who was quite a prominent politician here a couple of years ago, and who enlisted about fifty German residents of this city in an artillery company in Missouri last summer. After he left here, he was elected First Lieutenant of the company. We learn, from private sources, that the Doctor’s military career came to a sudden termination while his battalion was at Rolla some weeks ago. It appears that he and Captain Frelinghansen [sic], the commander of the company, were accused of taking the soldiers’ rations, and making use of them for their own benefit. The result was that the company mobbed both him and the captain, thus forcibly expressing their opinion of such conduct. They were compelled to resign their positions, and others were chosen to take their place.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 29, 1862, p. 1.
Transcriber’s Note: The above named officers are 1st Lieutenant Christian Raub and Captain Reinh Pfennighausen of the 1st Flying Battery, Missouri Light Artillery.
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