FORT DONELSON, Feb. 18, 1862. Dear Father: Long before you get this, the telegraph will inform you of the particulars of the capture o...

The law, banking, insurance and public service claimed the attention and energies of Edgar Tarbell Ensign through a long and useful career c...

DES MOINES, Feb. 24. DEAR HAWK-EYE: – The legislation of the present session will be, when complete, of a more important, tangible charact...

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

It now transpires that Lieutenant Edgar Ensign, was wounded four times before he submitted to be taken from the field.   He was struck onc...

. . . is still at Monroe, Jasper county, lingering with serious sickness. From last accounts, he was not improving. We regret to hear this...