LEESBURG, March 11. – Col. Geary made a personal reconnoissance
yesterday as far as Carlton Mills. The
enemy has completely fallen back. His path
was blocked up with ruins of hay, grain, stacks, &c. Geary and officers went to the battle-field
and buried whatever bodies they found there.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 3
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