Stormy Night.
Indications this morning good for a rainy day A marvelous assault was committed
at the St. Charles Hotel yesterday by the Reporter of the St. Louis Democrat on
the person of the surgeon on the 8th Mo Regt. The surgeon was shot in the small
of the back by a pistol ball wound not mortal.
Camp McClernand Cairo Ills.
The reporter gave
himself up and is now in custody. Dress Parade omitted this evening on account
of the inclemency of the weather.
SOURCE: Transactions
of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 226
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