Yesterday forenoon we were called upon by H. B. Doolittle;
who was shot in the leg, arm and abdomen, yet has recovered, and is now able to
return to duty. In the afternoon we
attended the funeral of J. S. Christian, who was simply wounded in the
leg. They were both young, strong, and
temperate men. One has outlived three
wounds; the other died from the effects of a single one. It may have been, and we presume it was, that
the wound of the latter was most severe; still the former may have received
such treatment as tended more to his recovery.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, May 2, 1862, p. 1
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