Monday, February 18, 2013

Battle In Tennessee

CHICAGO, April 8. – A private telegram was received in this city this evening dated Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, April 7, saying, we have fought and won the hardest battle ever fought on this continent.

The dispatch was from one of Gen. Grant’s staff.

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, p. 4

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