The news received yesterday of the taking of Island No. 10 and the great battle in Tennessee, filed our city with excitement. Citizens left their occupations and gathered on the street corners, as eager for news as the ancient Athenians. Flags were floating in the breeze all over the city, and loyal men were congratulating each other on the brace of glorious victories that had perched on the Federal standard. The news that came by telegraph, being a repetition of that sent to the Chicago papers, made no mention of the Iowa troops, and led some to infer that our brave boys had not participated in the engagement. When the facts become known in detail, we shall no doubt find the Iowa troops were there and among the foremost in the battle. Scott county has about 500 of her citizens in the regiments on the Tennessee, and if they were participants in this great struggle, many of those who rejoiced yesterday at the victory, may soon be called upon to morn the loss of friends. We hope, however, that our brave Iowa boys may this time escape the decimation they have usually suffered on the hard fought battle-field.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 10, 1862, p. 1
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