FORT DONELSON, TENNESSEE, Feb. 17, 1862. Dear Wife: I am again safe. My life is still prolonged. Let me hope it is for some good p...

Official Report of Col. Lauman. LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED IN THE 2d, 7th and 14th IOWA. HEADQUARTERS 4TH BRIG. 2D DIV. U S A FORT DO...

COMPANY A. Killed – Private Richard Highram Wounded – Lieutenant   ____ Tisdale, slightly, Corporal Oli Ramsey, severely; Privates L. Far...

FORT DONELSON, NEAR DOVER Stewart County, Tenn., Feb. 19, 1862 MR. EDITOR:   A kind Providence has spared me to fulfill my promise of writi...

MR. DUNHAM, - The funeral of Capt. CHAS. C. CLOUTMAN took place to-day.   The attendance was the largest ever had here, every body nearly tu...

(Special to Burlington Hawk-Eye) DES MOINES, Feb. 19, 1862. The following communication was received from Adjutant General Reed [sic], and...

This regiment, although it has seen hard service, being the first of the three years volunteers in the field, has never been under fire unti...

It turns out just as we anticipated it was the brigade of Col. Lauman, acting Brigadier General, consisting of the 7 th , 2 nd and 14 th I...

. . . we learn by a private dispatch, is Capt. Cloutman of Company K, 2d Iowa.   Capt. C. commanded a company from Ottumwa.   He formerly re...

The Fort Dodge Republican is in trouble about the railroad prospects of its section.   A terrible rumor is current that the Dubuque and Si...

The following letter has been a long time in reaching us, but as it contanins some particulars not given both other correspondents, we publi...

Col. Lauman commanding the brigade that stormed Fort Donelson, prefaces his official report, of which we publish the list of killed and woun...

. . . brought up to St. Louis the bodies of Capts. Slaymaker and Cloutman, and the wounded person of Major Chapman, all of the Iowa Second. ...

Rev. Wm. Salter, of Burlington, delivered a very able and impressive discourse entitled “Death of the Soldier,” being the funeral sermon of ...