Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Gen. Price and his Staff Captured!

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. – Dispatches were received at Head Quarters from Gen. Halleck, dated St. Louis, 10:30 a. m. to-day, saying that Gen. Curtis has captured Gen. Price, Col’s Dersey and Carr, and Capt. Judge of Price’s staff.

There is no official information that our forces intended advancing on Savannah with a veiwl of capturing and holding it.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 3

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