Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Western troops in their ...

. . . Winter Campaign in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas have set an example of physical endurance as well as of courage and enthusiasm in the service of their country rarely before seen. – They have surmounted all obstacles – cold, rain, snow and sleet could not stop them.  Look at them at Fort Donelson.  They battle three days continuously, amid storms of rain, snow and sleet, living upon crackers and raw pork, sleeping upon the mud and snow without tents and many without blankets, but at last after the most stupendous exertions, amid blood and carnage, planting the flag of the Union over the rebel strong-hold.  Similar exhibitions of vigor energy and courage along our whole line will blot out the rebellion in ninety days and drive its wicked leaders from the country, outcasts and exiles.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 1, 1862, p. 2

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