. . . for his home in Cleona township. He was wounded in the thigh by a shell, as we
stated yesterday. He gave us some very
interesting particulars relative to the skirmish between Gen. Paine’s forces
and the enemy, supposed to be under Gen. Price, last Friday, in which he was
engaged, and of which we publish an account in another column in a letter from “Diff.” In a skirmish the day previous, John Wilson,
a private in Co. B., 2d cavalry, from Marshall county, was killed. Capt. E. says that on Friday the 2d had only
400 men in the action, though every company was represented. The balance had been detailed on special
duty, or were absent from other causes.
The health of the regiment has been very good ever since they left St.
Louis, and they have very few in hospital.
Lt. Col. Hatch now commands the regiment, Col. Elliott having command of
a brigade composed of the 2d Iowa and the 2d Michigan Cavalry.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport,
Iowa, Saturday Morning, May 17, 1862, p. 1
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