Sunday, June 8, 2014

Major Schaeffer . . .

. . . of the glorious Iowa First, and latterly of the Curtis Horse, was buried with military honors at Dubuque on Thursday last.  In Tennessee, on the 5th inst., his men were fallen upon by the enemy ten times their number, Major S. was surrounded by six or eight rebel officers and ordered to surrender – having lost his saber and exhausted his revolver – which refusing to do, he was shot down.

Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, May 26, 1862, p. 1

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