Executive Committee S. C. R. A.

At a meeting of the Executive committee of the Scott County Soldiers’ Relief Association, held May 7, 1862, Messrs. J. L. Davies, J. W. Thompson and G. S. C. Dow were appointed a committee to select a suitable person to go to the field of operations in Tennessee, at the expense of this Association, and remain there as an agent for the Scott Co. Relief Association, rendering all assistance in his power, and keep said Association fully advised of al casualties occurring, hospital stores needed, &c.  It was resolved to appropriate the sum of fifty dollars to purchase materials to be worked up into hospital effects by the Ladies’ Aid Society of this city.

The Burial Committee reported that the body of John S. Christian, of Co. B. 8th Iowa volunteers, had been properly interred by them.

The committee adjourned to met next Saturday at 8 o’clock P. M.

ERNST CLAUSSEN, Secy.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, May 8, 1862, p. 1