We saw on the Sucker State, which passed up Monday, quite a
collection of warlike projectiles; among them grape-shot, conical ball and
shell, round ball and shell, &c. A
musket-barrel was in the lot which had run against a cannon ball, and been
twisted into a shape like a piece of a grape-vine that had grown around a tree.
– These relics of the battlefield were sent by Capt. Foster, to his family at
Le Claire, and no doubt will be highly prized years hence as mementoes of the
great rebellion.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport,
Iowa, Wednesday Morning, May 21,
1862, p. 1
