We learn that . . .

. . . Gov. Kirkwood contributed $200 for the Ladies’ Soldiers’ Aid Society in this city.  Nobody could make better use of it. – Gate City.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Meeting of the Ladies’ Aid Society

The Ladies’ Aid Society will meet in the Medical College at 10 o’clock this forenoon.  As some two hundred wounded soldiers are soon to be here, and must be provided for, it is hoped that there will be a full attendance of Ladies.  There is immediate need of the aid of all who can render it.

By order of the President.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862

Amount of Contributions

The amount of contributions of the Ladies’ Aid Societies distributed by Mrs. Wittenmyer, prior to her present trip, was $6,000, and the amount now in her hands for distribution will increase the gross sum to near $10,000.

The amount of $600, as published in the report, was an error of the types.

(Our exchanges will please copy.)

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862

The Rebel Gunboats At New Orleans

A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal states that “the Confederate Government is now constructing in New Orleans thirteen large iron clad gunboats, one of which is intended for sea service and the rest for the sea service and the river.  The largest is built by Murray, and is armed with thirty guns.  The projector is confident that with it alone he will be able to drive the Lincoln fleet from the Mississippi.  They are finished by this time, and are now probably on their way to Island No. 10.  They are encased with railroad iron, and are considered invulnerable.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862

Floyd said some time ago . . .

. . . that he would give his last drop of blood to cement the South.  The La Crosse Democrat thinks he concluded to save his cement when he found that Foote had so much mortar.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862

From the 15th Regiment

We learn from a private letter that Capt. Hutchcraft was wounded in the arm severely; Capt. Blackman in the back slightly; and Capt. Day in the hip.  Lieutenants Perryman, Hamilton and Fisk were killed, and J. Monroe Reid wounded in neck slightly.  Twenty-five privates were killed.

Col. Reid, Dewey and Belknap arrived at Cairo on the 12th and are probably on the way up.

- Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862

The Second Iowa

We learn that Co. A. had two killed, of whom John A Hough was one.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862

Mr. Sample and other people . . .

. . . we presume, understand it to be within the scope of our editorial duties and obligations to expose by name, persons in our community who express sympathizing sentiments or manifest disloyal proclivities.  And in that view of our obligations we fall under their censure for failure of duty in our columns this morning.  Now while the present case may be one justifying public reprehension, it did not strike us as sufficiently serious or so dangerous as to demand at our hands the necessary labor required to hunt up the evidence, get at the precise facts and merits, and become responsible for the proper presentation of them to the public.  Mr. Sample has assumed that responsibility in the present case and vouches for the truth of the statement over his own signature, and we give it circulation in doing so we would simply say that there are scores in our city whose sentiments are not less obnoxious than those attributed to Mr. Garber, and as the ball is now opened they had better “dry up” and dance to the music of the Union or make tracks for Dubuque with convenient dispatch.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862

Meeting of the Ladies Aid Society

The Ladies’ Soldiers’ Aid Society will meet in the Medical College at 10’o’clock this forenoon.  As some two hundred wounded soldiers are soon to be here, and must be provided for, it is hoped that there will be a full attendance of Ladies.  There is immediate need of the aid of all who can render it.

By order of the President.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862

Com. Foote At Ft. Pillow

Com. Foot is going on to Memphis. – He was yesterday before Ft. Pillow, and expected to reduce that place in good time.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862

Major McKee, of the Missouri Black Hawk Cavalry . . .

. . . whose recent exploit with the secesh lady, is going the rounds, was in town last night.  He returns to his home near Athens, for the first time since last August.  We learn from him that Col. Bishop has individually been mustered out of service.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862

A letter from Lt. Dan Tisdale . . .

. . . Co. A, 2d Iowa regiment, says that W. W. Clarke and Geo. W Friend, of that company were killed, and ten wounded.  Hough was not killed.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862

Sixteenth Illinois

We will published an interesting letter from the 16th Illinois regiment to-morrow.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862

Card Of Thanks

The ladies of the Keokuk Soldier’s Aid Society desire to render their acknowledgment and thanks to the Ladies Aid Society at Des Moines, for their timely remittance of fourteen dollars, received by Mrs. Wittenmyer, towards defraying her expenses as agent for the associated societies.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862

The 17th Regiment

The last company of the 17^th was mustered in yesterday, and the regiment is now full.  It is ordered by Gen. Halleck to Pittsburgh, and will leave on Friday morning.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862

Lieut. R. W. Hamilton

Among the names of the officers of the 15^th regiment where were killed at the desperate engagement at Pittsburg we notice the name of Lieut. R. W. HAMILTON, of Company I.  Lieut. Hamilton was a private in the glorious First, and was severely wounded at Springfield; this, however did not dampen his patriotism, as soon as he recovered he became a member of the 15^th and was elected to a lieutenancy.  Previous to his enlistment in the First regiment he was a student at the Iowa Wesleyan University, at Mt. Pleasant, studying for the ministry, and was a classmate with Richard Hingham of this city who fell at Donelson.  While the 15^th was quartered in this place Lt. Hamilton, by his gentlemanly and unassuming manner made many friends, who will regret exceedingly to hear of his sudden death.  He was the youngest officer of the regiment.  His residence was in Osceola, Clark[e] County.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862

From the Third Iowa Cavalry

HEADQUARTERS 3^RD IOWA CAVALRY,

Cross Timbers, Mo., March 30^th.

COL. BUSSEY: – I am gratified to be able to inform you that among a large number of returned prisoners brought in today by Capt. McKenney, from Van Buren, are the following men of our command:

Co. A – O. S., Daniel Bradburry, unhurt.

Co. A – Private, Andrew Marvin, unhurt.

Co. H – Private, Charles J. Butin, unhurt.

Co. H – Private, John Lawson, unhurt.

Co. H – Private, John L. Wolf, unhurt.

Co. M – Private, H. H. Ross, unhurt.

Co. M – Private, Brison Scott, unhurt.

Co. M – Private, Henry A Cowles, saber cut on neck, but not dangerous.

Elijah Ward, of Company A, was wounded by a shot in the side; the ball, however, striking a rib did not penetrate, and he is doing well.  He had been detailed at Van Buren to attend the sick, and had gone to Little Rock, when our men left.  James J. Mason has not been heard from.  It is probable that he is wounded and has been left at some of the enemy’s hospitals.  He is, you will perceive, the only one of our men not now accounted for.

Our men say they were treated will by the “secesh”, but have had a hard time of it: being compelled to go it on the “double quick” until midnight during the retreat.

J. W. NOBLE.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862

From Grant’s Army – Railroad Bridges Destroyed

Pittsburg Landing, April 14.

A force of four thousand on five transports left the Landing on Saturday night accompanied by the gunboats Tyler and [Lexington], and proceeded up the stream to a point near Eastport, Miss., landed and proceeded inland to Bear Creek bridge, and destroyed the two bridges on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, one measuring one hundred and twenty and the other two hundred and ten feet in length. A cavalry force of one hundred and fifty men was found there, who, after having four killed, skedaddled in the most approved southern style. The expedition returned Sunday night, without having lost a man. This was one of the most successful operations of the kind during the war, completely cutting off communication of the main rebel body at Corinth with the rest of the Confederates, except New Orleans.

A flag of truce arrived at our outpost yesterday with Gen. Johnston’s son, of Ky., asking the fate of his father.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862

New York, April 15, [1862]

Specials state that Western dispatches received at Washington report that Fort Randolph is being strongly fortified by the rebels.

The Committee on the Conduct of the War are about to investigate the cause of the late surprise at Pittsburg Landing.

Several civilians have been captured by the rebels while curiosity hunting around Manassas.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862

Washington, April 14, [1862]

Mr. Kerrigan voted against the bill for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, but was kept out of the list in the telegraphing hence.

The House Committee on Elections were unable to agree on the case of Joseph Segar of the First Congressional District of Virginia. The subject will come up for discussion by the House upon its merits.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862