. . . 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,
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