Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Important News from Curtis’s Division


CHICAGO, March 13. – Special dispatch to the Evening Journal from St. Louis says:  Private letters received to-day from officers in Curtis’s army, that the rebels in McCulloch’s army are in the rear of the Federal army and another battle is soon expected.  In the late fight at Sugar Creek, the 4th Division stood the brunt of the battle.  The 4th and 9th Iowa, and 1st & 3d Iowa batteries are terribly cut up – 180 out of 400 in the 4th Iowa were killed and wounded.  Every field officer in Dodge’s Brigade were wounded.  Gen. Dodge had three horses killed under him and one wounded.  Capts. Burton and Burman and Lieut. Crittenden were wounded.  Lieut. Jackson was killed.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 3

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