Showing posts with label Steamer Ruth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steamer Ruth. Show all posts

Sunday, March 30, 2008

News From St. Louis

A party of Paymasters with funds to replace those lost on the Steamer Ruth is making up to leave here next week, to pay Gen. Grant's army. They will leave here about Wednesday.

Three hundred Missourians captured at Vickburg, who have taken the oath of allegiance, are confined in the Gratiot Street Prison, awaiting orders from Washington.

- Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, August 15, 1863