CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., May 17. – Dispatches just received from Col. Daniels’ headquarters near Bloomfield, Mo., contain accounts of the capture of the notorious Col. Phelan of Jeff Thompson’s gang of marauders, and over 100 of his men. Fifty of them, it is said, gave themselves up, and expressed a desire to return to a quiet and peaceful life.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 4
