Proceedings Of The City Council

ADJOURNED MEETING.

WEDNESDAY, February 12.

All the members were present except Ald. Le Claire and Parker. In the absence of the Mayor Ald. Davenport was called to the chair. The minutes of the last three meetings were approved.

The petitions of J. R. Johnson, John Wunderlich and Howard Darlington, relative to erroneous assessment, and of J. W. Woodward for a reductions of taxes, were presented and referred to the committee on claims and the city attorney. The petition of B. S. Glaspell, for a new street near Division street was presented and referred to the committee on streets; and that of John Armil, to vacate a portion of his second addition, was referred to the same committee and the city attorney. The petition of Otto Klug, for permission to build a sewer from his store house to the Main street sewer, was granted.

The committee on fire and water reported on the communication of W. G. Jones, chief engineer, favorably to providing 1,000 feet of new hose. The report was adopted.

Ald. Renwick offered a resolution instructing the committee to procure the requisite amount of hose. Adopted.

The bond of C. W. Verder, as city assessor, was approved.

The report of the City Marshal was presented. His collections last month were, on the tax of 1858, $403.55; on that of 1861, $1,724; total, $2,128.61.

A number of claims, to the aggregate amount of $967.86, were presented and ordered paid. The largest claim was that of Richardson, West & Co., to the amount of $663.25, for advertising delinquent tax list.

Mr. Thorington presented a copy of the writ of injunction on file in the County Clerk’s office, restraining the City Treasurer from paying out any money, under the resolution of January 9, to the Amory Committee.

Mr. Thorington, of the Armory Committee, addressed the Council on the subject of the Armory – stating the progress made at Washington, and the present prospect of the Armory question. He expresses the opinion, and supported it by statements of facts and opinions with which he had become familiar, that Rock Island’s prospects for the Armory were as good as those of any other place, if not better; but there were very decided symptoms that no Armory bill would get through the House, but would likely be smothered. He expressed the belief that our interests had been as carefully attended to as those of any other locality.

Ald. Renwick offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the resolution passed at the last regular meeting of this council, appropriating $250 toward defraying the expenses of the armory committee to Washington, be and the same is hereby reconsidered and repealed.

The yeas and nays were called and stood:

YEAS. – Renwick, Schmidt, Weinert. – 3.

NAYS. – Coulthart, Gillett, Glasman, Kaufman, Noe, Peters. – 6.

Ald. Renwick offered the following, which was adopted:

Resolved, That a vote of thanks be tendered by the city council to the armory committee, for the faithful discharge of their duty while in the city of Washington. Adopted.

Ald. Peters offered the following which was adopted.

Resolved, That the committee on public buildings and public grounds, are hereby instructed to examine the roof of the building known as the council chamber, and to report at the next meeting, the best method of repairing the same. Adopted.

Ald. Gillett moved that the thanks of the city council be tendered to the armory committee for the faithful manner in which they have performed their duty.

Ald. Peters introduced an ordinance requiring the owners and occupants of property to remove the snow from their sidewalks. Laid over for one week.

On motion, Council adjourned.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 13, 1862, p. 1

Cornerstone Of The Old Estes House

FIFTH & MAIN, KEOKUK, IOWA

SITE OF ARMY HOSPITAL APR. 17, 1862 – OCT. 1, 1865

ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN THE OLD GENERAL HOSPITAL AT KEOKUK AND ARE BURIED IN THE NAITONAL CEMETERY.

– Keokuk National Cemetery, Keokuk, Iowa

Local Matters

PARTICIPATION – See new advertisement. Enquire of R. Simpson.

THE LINES furnished us on “The Secession Snake” won’t do to publish. The sentiment is good, but there is neither rhyme nor rhythm to the poetry.

GODEY’S LADY’S BOOK, for March, is already on our table. It contains the usual fine steel plate engraving, double fashion plate, illustrations, tales, essays, etc.

AN IMMENSE stock of French Dry Goods, to which almost daily additions are made, can be found at Wadsworth’s. He offers as good terms, either at wholesale or retail, as any house in this section of the country. Call and examine it.

FROM KANSAS. – An interesting letter will be found on this page to-day from our Kansas correspondent. He is an observing man, a good writer and placed in a position where he can obtain all the facts that will transpire in the great expedition from Kansas southward.

[UNLUCKY] SLEIGHING PARTY. – A party went out for a sleigh ride Tuesday evening, and as they came down Main street by the railroad the horses ran away, tearing down Main street with fearful velocity, and only bringing up at the corner of Front and Brady streets. – The party were scattered along the route, having jumped out at intervals. The team ran away twice afterwards during the same trip.

TO-DAY Welton & Warriner open their new boot and shoe manufactory at No. 56 Brady street. They will manufacture to order all kinds of men’s, ladies’, misses’ and children’s work, and will also keep on hand all kinds of Eastern work. All orders left at the old stand, 1st door above the Post Office, or at 56 Brady street, will be promptly attended to.

ELECTION DISTRICTS. – Our State Senator, Hon. J. B. Leake, has introduced a bill into that body, providing for dividing townships into election districts in certain cases. The bill was ordered to a third reading on the 6th inst. The necessity of such a measure is evident to every person who knows anything about elections in our larger cities – the canvass sometimes taking two or three days to complete, as was the case last fall.

PETTY RASCALITY. – Night before last the Temperance Eating Saloon, owned by Mr. Stanley, on Main street, between front and Second, was robbed of a number of pies. The front window was smashed in about midnight, through which the rogues found admission. The stock on hand consisted of a few pies only, which were taken. Suspicion was directed towards a small squad of soldiers belonging to the camp, who had visited the house that evening, and information was in the morning given to the commandant. Col. Sanders prosecuted a sharp investigation, and last evening had the perpetrators of the offense fast in the guard house. They were six in number and the youngest lads in the regiment. They ‘broke guard’ to get down town, but will doubtless receive such a lesson as to prevent them indulging in this kind of fun again.

DIVIDEND. – The New York Life Insurance Company has just declared a script dividend of thirty per cent. on life policies issued previous to Jan. 1st ult, and of twenty-five per cent. upon dividends heretofore declared from 1850 to 1860, inclusive, payable in cash on the first Monday in March next. This has been one of the most successful Life Insurance Companies ever chartered. As the rates of premiums are no higher, while the assets are greater and the dividends are larger than other companies, it is therefore the best and cheapest to insure in.

The agent of this company, Mr. John L. Swits, Nickolls’ Block, will furnish, gratuitously, the reports and information concerning it, and will also receive applications for insurance.

THE DEMOCRAT. – Our neighbor cringes under the excoriation we gave him and whines like a whipped spaniel. He doesn’t at all like such treatment. Bet the time has passed when secessionists at heart can hide themselves under the mask of ‘conservatism,’ and palm off their treasonable thoughts on community as a [simon-pure] Unionism. While our sons and neighbors are periling their lives and all are so deeply experiencing the fearful effects of this rebellion, men are not disposed to sanction any reasoning, however sophisticated, that has a tendency to prolong the war and entail misery upon their children. The ‘stop thief’ policy of the Democrat in regard to the Republican party won’t answer. They do not stand alone in the position they have assumed, to quell the rebellion regardless of the consequences to slavery, but very many persons who formerly identified themselves with the Democratic party, now take the same ground, and look upon the institution of slavery in a secondary light to the maintenance of the Union. And until this be done, we boldly maintain, that the North will not be purged of its sympathizers with treason.

UNGRATEFUL THIEVES. – Last Friday, a couple of boys, aged respectively about nineteen and fifteen years, stopped at Mr. W. Sherman’s Fifteen-Mile House, and being destitute they were received by Mr. Sherman, who gave them employment on Tuesday night, being desirous of changing their lodgings, they took their departure, carrying with them a couple of overcoats, a pair of boots, and some other clothing from Mr. Sherman’s hospitable house. They came in this direction, as they were seen to pass the Six-Mile House about three o’clock yesterday morning. They hail from Jones county.

THE DEMOCRAT, discoursing on the bachelor tax, says it hears “ye local” hereof has proposed twice since he read of the said tax. Twice! Is that all – you know about it? Why, judging from the experience of some of our neighbors, in order to have any use for the “baby-talk” you speak of, twice that many acceptances would hardly be enough. Twice! Indeed.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 13, 1862, p. 1

O. P. SALA

Company A.

Was born in Bee Town, Grant county. Wisconsin, December 22d, 1845. His father, E. M. Sala, was a physician practicing medicine. His mother's name before marriage was Susan Schellanburger. In 1852 his father moved to Ashley, Pike county. Missouri. He moved his family out on a farm three miles from town, and he remained in the town with his father, who was a physician, but too old to practice medicine, and remained in the office and drug store. He remained there about two years, and then moved to West Point, Lee county, Iowa. Here he spent his boyhood days in going to school, attending the West Point Collegiate School three or four years.

In the summer of 1861 he ran away from home and enlisted in Fletcher's flying artillery, which was located at Burlington, Iowa. Being quite young, his father took him out of the battery. He remained at home until the next spring and went to school. Then he went to Keokuk, Iowa, and got a position in the Estis [sic] House Hospital as wound dresser of the first ward. Remained there until August, when he enlisted in the Thirtieth Iowa Infantry, but on the 31st of August was transferred to the First Iowa Cavalry. Joined the regiment at Twin Springs just before the battle of Prairie Grove. On the 1st of January, 1864, he re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer, for three years or during the war, and came home on a veteran furlough; in May was sent to the Keokuk Hospital with the ague, and remained there until February, 1865, when he rejoined his regiment at St. Louis, Missouri, and then went to Texas with General Custer, and was mustered out at Austin, Texas, February 15th, 1866.

When he returned home he began the study of medicine again, and during the summer of 1866 went to Keokuk, Iowa, and got a position in Dr. Sanford's Surgical Infirmary, and during the winter he attended what was then called the Iowa State Medical University. In the spring of 1867 he was married to the girl who remained true to him while he was fighting for his country. Miss Ina Stewart, of West Point, Lee county, Iowa. During the summer, fall and spring of 1867-68 his wife taught school and he returned to Keokuk and finished his medical education, and then located in Franklin Center, Iowa, and practiced medicine until the next spring, when he moved to Bloomington, Grant county, Wisconsin, where he has lived ever since. In 1880 his wife died, leaving him with four boys. In 1881 he was married to Alice Bowen, and has two daughters by her, by adoption. He is now in his 44th year, and in good health, all but the rheumatism in his back, caused from the ague while in the United States service. Is a member of Will Hickok Post, No. 134, G. A. R., located at Bloomington, Wisconsin, and a member of Bloomington Lodge, No. 159, I. O. O. F.; also a member of the Blue Lodge, No. 146, A. F. and A. M., of Bee Town, Wisconsin, and of the Chapter at Lancaster, and of the DeMolay Commandery, No. 15, Boscobel, Wisconsin.

SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 326-8

The Great Western Railroad Depot, Springfield, Illinois

A plaque on the side of the building reads:

THIS DEPOT, BUILT IN 1852, WAS THE SITE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FAMOUS FAREWELL ADDRESS UPON LEAVING SPRINGFIELD ON FEBRUARY 11, 1861 TO ASSUME THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.

DEDICATED APRIL 23, 1965
ERECTED BY SPRINGFIELD HISTORICAL SITES COMMISSION 1965

Lecture Postponed

The lecture, which was to have been delivered by Dr. Parry last evening for the benefit of the Soldier’s Aid Society, was indefinitely postponed on account of the Dr.’s illness.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 13, 1862, p. 1

The Memphis Appeal of the 23d of April . . .

. . . has an article on the Defense of the Mississippi urging its importance. It speculates on the consequences if Island No. 10 should be evacuated. It uses this language:

“If Island No 10 should be evacuated – if at a future time Fort Pillow should prove insufficient to check the descent of the the fleet of the enemy’s gunboats – what then?”

Great as is the capacity of the rebels for concealing their losses, and downright lying this is astonishing. Two weeks after the whole rebel army and the most of their flotilla – an army of five thousand men, one hundred pieces of artillery &c. &c. – were captured – when the army was imprisoned and our own troops in charge of the guns at No. 10 – the Appeal puts the question to its readers – what if Island No. 10 should be evacuated? This is the most audacious attempt at public deception during the war.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1

Some of the papers are discussing . . .

. . . the question whether the President dances. It is pretty evident that if he don’t dance himself he is the cause of some very lively dancing in others.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1

Old John Bell was at Huntsville Alabama . . .

. . . when the Federal troops entered that place and made his escape on foot leaving the town “by a path,” so says the Atlanta papers.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1

Memphis papers of Saturday last . . .

. . . say that at a convention of cotton planters held at Selma, Alabama, it was unanimously resolved to restrict the production of cotton to 500 pounds for each hand employed and advising the cultivation of breadstuffs instead. It was recommended to levy a tax of $25 per bale on all grown over that amount.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1

Gen. Beauregard according to a Memphis paper . . .

. . . has ordered the disbanding of a number of Rebel cavalry regiments on account of the scarcity of forage. It complains likewise that by the eight cavalry regiments in the battle near Pittsburgh Landing only three charges were made, and these only by bodies from 300 to 800 each.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1

Abraham Lincoln’s Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois

[Monday, February 11, 1861]

My friends.

No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe every thing. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell

SOURCES: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4, p. 190; The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, Series 1, General Correspondence, 1833-1916

A Rebel journal the Petersburg Express . . .

. . . admitting the capture of New Orleans congratulates its readers that the yellow fever will do the work which the Rebel General was unable to perform. It finds likewise consolation in the fact the Lovell the leader of the rebel band at New Orleans, will be able to join his forces with those of Beauregard at Corinth and thence march into Ohio as soon as the Tennessee and Cumberland become fordable. Other Rebel journals from which extracts are made speak of the surrender of New Orleans in similar terms, but admit that a different result was expected. One of these Rebel journals apprehends that Memphis will share the fate of New Orleans.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1

Lewellyn W. Larrabee

8th Corporal, Co., K, 12th Iowa Infantry
Mortally wounded April 6, 1862. Died April 28, 1862.

Shiloh National Cemetery

The mystery of Lewellyn W. Larrabee: When I sat down this morning I thought this was going to be a quick picture post. I was wrong. Using The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, I discovered there are several variant spellings of his name, his first name being spelled variously as Lewellyn or Lewellen; where his middle initial appears all sources agree it is W.; and his last name is spelled variously as Larrebee, Larrabee, Larabee, Laribee and Larubee.

Also in The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, in all except 1 instance of the various name spellings he is listed as having been a member of the 13th Iowa Infantry, he was not, he was actually a member of the 12th Iowa Infantry, and all other sources list him accordingly so. This headstone (pictured above) stands in the 12th Iowa Infantry Section of Shiloh National Cemetery.

All sources where rank is given agree he was a member of Company K and enlisted as a private and died an 8th corporal.

Now about his wounding and burial. Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion, volume 2, p. 490 lists him as a member of Co. K, 12th Iowa Infantry as follows:

“Larrabee, Lewellyn. Age 22. Residence Marion, nativity Maine. Enlisted Sept. 8, 1861. Mustered Nov. 25, 1861. Killed in battle April 6, 1862, Shiloh, Tenn. Buried in National Cemetery, Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Section 51, grave 55.”

Why would a soldier, killed in battle at Shiloh, Tennessee be buried at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri? Because he wasn’t killed at Shiloh. According to list of “Killed Wounded and Missing of the 12th Iowa Infantry Volunteers” which appeared in the April 22, 1862 issue of The Daily State Register (Des Moines, Iowa), “L. W. Laribee” was listed as wounded in the lungs, but not as killed.

A listing for Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery found on Interment.net states that Lewellyn Larrebee died April 28, 1862 and was buried that same day in plot: 51 0 773

I have therefore concluded, until further research can be done, that Lewellyn W. Larrabee, 8th Corporal, Company K, 12th Iowa Infantry, received a mortal wound in his lungs on April 6th, 1862 and at some point before April 28th was taken to the hospital at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri where he died and was buried.

It is likely that when the bodies of the 12th Iowa were reinterred in the National Cemetery at Shiloh, that one of the exhumed bodies may have been misidentified as Lewellyn Larrabee.

SOURCES: The Civil War Soldiers And Sailors System, Interment.net listings for Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery; Shiloh National Cemetery; Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion, volume 2, p. 490; “Killed Wounded and Missing of the 12th Iowa Infantry Volunteers,” The Daily State Register, Des Moines, Iowa, April 22, 1862

Adjutant David A. Kerr

Was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, August 7th, 1838. Enlisted as a private in Company A, First Iowa Cavalry. June 13th, 1861, and mustered in as first sergeant Company A, July 30th, 1861. Promoted Adjutant of the First Battalion, October 7th, 1861. Was in the engagement at Silver Creek, Missouri, January 8th, 1862, and was severely wounded in the right arm at Big Creek Cliffs, Cass county, Missouri, July 11th, 1862. Promoted Adjutant of the regiment October 1st, 1862. Was with the command at battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. December 7th, 1862. His wound incapacitating him for field duty, he tendered his resignation on Surgeon's certificate of disability, which was accepted February 6th, 1863. Returned to place of enlistment, Keokuk, Iowa, and engaged in the drug business, and has resided there ever since.

SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 326

Adjutant H. L. Morrill

Born at Guilford, Somerset county, Maine, April 4th, 1836. Emigrated with his parents to Illinois in 1837, and to Iowa in January, 1841. Educated in private and common schools and academies of Iowa. Enlisted in the volunteer service during the rebellion, in the First Iowa Cavalry, June 13th, 1861. Mustered out with the rank of First Lieutenant and Adjutant, and brevet Major, March 15th, 1866. Entered railway service July, 1870, and in such service [continuously] until the present time — now, November 1st, 1889, Second Vice President and General Manager of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company. Residence and address, St. Louis. Missouri.

SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 326

Assistant Surgeon Asa Morgan

Dr. Asa Morgan was born in Dayton, Ohio, on the 22d day of February, 1826. In the fall of 1833 his father removed to Indiana and settled at Thornton, Boone county, the town at this time being the remains of an old Indian village, with many of the cabins still standing and serving the new-comers for shelter until they could build better ones. He endured the hardships and privations of frontier life, and lived to see the place grow into a flourishing town, with good schools, churches, stores, etc., when his father migrated with his family to Iowa in the fall of 1846, and settled on a farm near Davenport. The coming winter he taught school in Rockingham, Iowa, He was now in his 21st year. He taught three successive winters, reading medicine at intervals, and working on his father's farm during summers.

He read medicine under Dr. Wm. H. White, of Davenport, during the winter of 1849-50, and attended a partial course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Upper Mississippi, located there at the time. He took his next course at Rush Medical College, Chicago, at the session of 1850-51. He attended his last course at the Iowa University College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Keokuk, Iowa, session 1851-52, when he graduated at the close, and located in the practice of medicine at De Witt, Iowa, in March, same year.

He married the only daughter of Mr. C. A. Isbel, in November, 1854. In the fall of 1857 he removed with his family, and located in the practice of his profession at Pacific City, Mills county, Iowa, When the discovery of gold in the Rocky Mountains was first made known, he with many others living on the frontier immediately made ready, and started on a trip to the auriferous fields early in 1859. After arriving there and prospecting a few weeks in the mountains, he made up his mind that gold digging there could not be made to pay without the expenditure of large capital, and thereupon he returned to the States the same summer, settled up his business at his new home on the Missouri river, and returned to his old home at De Witt, Iowa, where he pursued the practice of medicine until August, 1861, when he received a commission as Assistant Surgeon of the Seventh Iowa Regiment Infantry Volunteers, and joined his regiment same month at Iron Mountain: was with it on duty — overworked much of the time, and enduring many hard marches and suffering from the privations and disadvantages of soldiering at the commencement of the war — he fell sick, and finally became so debilitated and broken down in health, that soon after the first battle of Corinth he resigned, the last of June, 1862, and returned home with a shattered and broken constitution. After remaining home some two years, and health much improved, through the influence of his tried and true friend of many years, Dr. C. H. Lothrop, then Surgeon of the First Iowa Cavalry Volunteers, the Governor of Iowa commissioned him Assistant Surgeon of that regiment, in December, 1864, with which he remained in that capacity only a few months, when he was promoted, and commissioned by the Governor of Illinois Surgeon of the Twelfth Illinois Regiment Cavalry Volunteers, in June, 1865, and served with that regiment until after the close of the war, and was mustered out at Houston, Texas, in May, 1866, and became a citizen of Texas, buying a farm on Cedar Bayou, near Galveston Bay, where he now resides and still follows the vocation of his calling.


SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 325-6

Surgeon Milton B. Cochran

Milton B. Cochran, M. D., was born in Cambridge. Franklin county. Vermont. June 7th, 1828, and moved with his parents to Milan, Erie county, Ohio, in 1836. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his grandfather was a Lieutenant in the Vermont volunteers in the Revolutionary war.

The early education of Dr. Cochran was obtained in the district schools and the Huron Institute in Milan. In 1849 he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. L. Galpin, of Milan, and graduated from the medical department of the Western Reserve College, of Cleveland. Ohio, in 1851. After his graduation he went to Delaware county, Ohio, where he resided until 1854, when he moved to Iowa City. Iowa.

He enlisted in what became Company F, First Iowa Cavalry, in April, 1861, and upon the organization of the regiment he was commissioned Surgeon. He served with the regiment until November, 1862, when he was detached to serve as Medical Director of the Third Division of the Army of the Frontier. He was with the Army of the Frontier in all its marches and engagements from its organization until it was disbanded, and was appointed Medical Director of that army in March, 1863. In June, 1863, he was ordered to accompany Major General Herron to Vicksburg, Mississippi, as Surgeon-in-Chief of the left wing of the investing forces. After the capture of Vicksburg he accompanied the army to Yazoo, Port Hudson, Morganza and New Orleans.

At his own request, in October he was ordered to rejoin the First Iowa, then at Little Rock, Arkansas. Arriving at Little Rock late in November, he was at once assigned to the Cavalry Division of the Seventh Corps, under Brigadier General Davidson, as Surgeon-in-Chief, in which position he remained until March following. When the army under Major General Steele commenced the Camden expedition, he was assigned Medical Director of the Seventh Corps in the field. After the army reached Camden, Arkansas, Surgeon Cochran was ordered to accompany a detachment of the Thirty-sixth Iowa Infantry and the Seventy-seventh Ohio to Pine Bluff, to obtain supplies for the army; and on the 25th of April the escort, consisting of about 1.500 infantry, two sections of artillery, and one company of cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel Drake, of the Thirty-sixth Iowa, was attacked by a large body of rebel cavalry under Major General Fegan, fresh from the repulse of Major General Banks on Red river, and the entire command, except a few of the cavalry, after a most stubborn fight was killed or captured. Of the artillery every man and horse was killed or wounded. The rebels held the field. After a week of captivity, Surgeon Cochran was released on the promise that he would send hospital supplies for the wounded, (about 500 in all,) both Union and rebel forces being destitute. Two days after Surgeon Cochran reached Pine Bluff, sent back the supplies promised, and went to Little Rock, where he joined the First Iowa again, to return to Iowa on veteran furlough.

In May, 1864, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon United States Volunteers, but his commission did not reach him until the August following, when he resigned as Surgeon of the First Iowa Cavalry, and was assigned to hospital duty at Jefferson Barracks. Missouri,

In September he was appointed Chief of the Medical Examining Board of Surgeons, and sent to Benton Barracks. The duty of the board was to examine all drafted men and substitutes of the Department of the Missouri, The circular of the Adjutant General of the Army directing the Surgeon General to establish these Examining Boards, directed that the medical officers constituting them “should be selected so as to give some of the best talent of the medical corps for the especial purpose of examining recruits.”

Surgeon Cochran remained at Benton Barracks as long as the board was in existence, and was then ordered to take charge of the military hospital at Alton. Illinois. In April he was ordered to take charge of the General Hospital at Benton Barracks, Missouri, where he remained until November, 1865. when he was ordered to Iowa City to be mustered out of service. In May he was commissioned Surgeon of United States Volunteers, and on November 1st, 1865, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel by brevet.

In 1866 he removed from Iowa City to Davenport, where he resided until 1884, when he removed to Shawano, Wisconsin. In 1890 he returned to Iowa City, his present home.

He was one of the organizers of the State Historical Society of Iowa, of which he was two years corresponding secretary: was president of the Iowa State Medical Society in 1863; was elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1889; and has always been an active member of the local medical and scientific organizations in places in which he has resided.

SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 323-4

Major Levi Chase

Was born October 23d, 1823, in Washington county, State of Maine. Graduated at the Collegiate Institute at Nunda, State of New York, in April, 1846. By profession an attorney at law. At the commencement of the war was practicing his profession in Louisa county, Iowa. Mustered into the service with the regiment as Captain of Company C. Was assigned to the command of the post of Osceola, and the southern division of Colonel Warren's District of Missouri, in the spring of 1862, and held this command until the fall of that year, when the post was vacated, and the regiment joined General James G. Blunt, First Division Army of Southwest Missouri, at Springfield. Missouri, and moved south into Arkansas. Was commissioned as Major February 1st, 1863, and after the capture of Little Rock, Arkansas, was by the order of the General commanding assigned to the command of Remount Camp, at Little Rock, established for the purpose of remounting the cavalry division, and putting it in condition for service. He held this command until February 12th, 1864, when he was mustered out on the Surgeon's certificate of disability. Broken down in health by exposure in the service, unable to engage in active business, he removed to the State of California and settled at San Diego in that State; and having there recovered his health, commenced and continued the practice of his profession until January, 1888, when he retired from active business to enjoy the fruits of his labors, under the sunny skies of his chosen home, protected by the just and generous Government that he had helped to save from dissolution.

SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 322-3

We confess to a feeling of pleasure upon . . .

. . . the finding in the Ottumwa Democratic Mercury a column of abuse aimed at the Rev. Geo. B. Jocelyn. The subject is introduced in the following neat and complimentary manner:

‘Rev Geo B Jocelyn, delivered an abolition ten cent lecture in this city on Monday evening. It was remarkable for nothing but being an attempt to imitate the fanaticism of Wendell Phillips, and the oratory of Clay Dean.’

When persons so faultless in their lives, so prudent and unpretending in their utterances and so sound in their opinions as Rev Jocelyn, are compelled to encounter such an avalanche of abuse and vituperation as this, we feel assured things must soon culminate. The time is not far distant when this creature, Hendershot, and his co-laborer, Mahoney will arrive at a realizing sense of their own infamy and be glad to crawl out of view and seek relief in oblivion. We should like to hear this abolition ten cent lecture.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1

The Secretary of the Treasury estimates . . .

. . . that the expenses of the war up to the 1st July next will not exceed six hundred million dollars, and re recommends to Congress the issuing of twenty five million dollars in treasury notes in denominations under fives.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1

George W. Doty

Private, Co. A, 13th Iowa Infantry
Killed in action April 6, 1862

Shiloh National Cemetery

Colonel William Thompson

Was born in Manallen township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, November 10th. 1813. Was moved to Mount Vernon, Ohio, in the spring of 1817, and was moved into the wilderness, where the old Thompson homestead — since made — now stands: where he lived and worked until after twenty-one years old. His early education was limited, having attended only six winter (three months') common schools, taught mainly by the old-time Irish schoolmaster. He read law and other studies with Columbus Delano, and in three years and a half was creditably admitted to the practice of law in the Supreme Court of Ohio.

In 1839 he went to Iowa, where he attained many unanticipated civic and military distinctions.

SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 322

Mr. _ Clark . . .

. . . working in a stone quarry in the western part of town, was instantly killed yesterday morning by the caving of a bank of earth and rock which crushed his body in a shocking manner.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1

An illustration of Southern valor . . .

. . . is given in the fact that the rebels at Yorktown drive the negroes into positions of danger that they dare not occupy themselves, and compel them to mount fortifications and act as artillerymen when there is a pretty certain chance of being picked off by our sharpshooters. It is an old custom among the chivalry to dodge behind the nigger. Breckinridge’s escape to secession will be ever memorable for his disguise behind a greasy darkey.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1

The "Union" Gun For The Monitor

It is reported that the mammoth “Union” gun cast in Pittsburgh is to be transferred to the Monitor, and the dispatch with which the projectiles for it are being hurried up, would go to show that the rumor may not be altogether without foundation. Mr. Ericsson has stated that the Monitor was designed to carry much heavier guns than those now in use, and the “Union” supplied with the elongated and improved projectiles no being made for her in Pittsburgh, would certainly constitute a most effective and formidable engine of defense and destruction.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4

Emancipation

The late message of the president on the subject of emancipation in the District of Columbia, cannot be without effect upon the slave holding communities of the border states. We have watched with much interest for the responses to the president’s policy, and particularly for the effect the deed of freedom for the District. There were many who honestly doubted whether the time had come for these movements, - whether they would not tend to retard the restoration of peace and union. So far nothing appears to indicate that they were premature. On the contrary there are indications that they will form the basis of a new party that will spring up in all the border states, having for its end and aim the emancipation of the slaves in those states, and to [consequent] emancipation of those states from slavery. A letter in the New York Evening Post from Louisville represents that since the emancipation action in Washington a considerable number of presses in the border states have taken on a new tone, and are now speaking for the institution of slavery as “transient,” and expressing a desire to be ride of the burden. In Franklin county Mo., one of the hotbeds of slavery, a public meeting has recently been held which passed resolutions asking for the gradual extinction of slavery. Ex Gov. Stewart of Missouri has publicly committed himself to the emancipation policy. In Maryland, a party is rapidly springing up which sustains the policy of the president, and demands either the gradual extinction of slavery or the immediate purchase of the negroes. In Kentucky the loyal masses admit that the political power of slavery has passed away. Men are talking about the matter freely. In Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland, the slaveholders themselves are talking freely on the subject. A slaveholder in Prince George county, Md., who owns forty slaves, expresses himself in favor of the universal abolition of slavery throughout the country, since the president signed the district emancipation act. He says the measure is a death blow to slavery in all the slave states –

There can be little doubt that we are entering upon a new era in slavery agitation. It seems evident, judging by the signs of the times that the whole iniquity has calumniated, and that the history of the next twenty years will embrace the decline and extinction of slavery in this country. It is possible that it will die in this war – die in blood and flame and awful retribution, but it looks less like it than a year ago. It seems more probable that slavery having ceased as a political power, will seek a safe extinguishment in some form of compensated emancipation. The question will occupy northern mind less and southern mind more. There will be a southern agitation, and one of the unprecedented bitterness. Whatever of anti-slavery sentiment may exist will undoubtedly seek to ally itself with political power in the North. The scepter of power once departed from the accursed institution it can never be repossessed.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4

Samuel C. Martin

Private, Co. G, 13th Iowa Infantry
Killed in action April 6, 1862

Shiloh National Cemetery

Colonel Daniel Anderson

Was born April 5th, 1821, in Monroe county. Indiana, and raised on a farm, with the ordinary limited means for education incident to a newly settled country. After his majority he improved his education for two years in a better class of schools, and then taught school and read law until 1847, when he was admitted to the bar, and came to Iowa in February, 1848; stopped at Keokuk one year, and on May 1st, 1849, settled permanently at Albia, Monroe county. Iowa, and commenced the practice of his profession. On October 14th. 1849, he was married to Miss Amanda M. Harrow, who is now his wife and mother of his five stalwart sons, (and a daughter and son dead.)

He was elected State Senator August, 1854, and again in October, 1858 — was in six sessions, the last one, May, 1861; and same month volunteered and helped to raise the old regiment. Served as Captain of Company H from its organization until he was made Major, July 10th, 1862; Lieutenant Colonel, February 13th, 1863; Colonel, August 21st, 1863, and so remained until discharged for disability about June 1st, 1864. Was a Lincoln Elector in fall of 1864. Was offered a nomination for Congress, but could not accept on account of ill health. Was Register in Bankruptcy after 1867 for several years. He thinks better of his three years' service with the old regiment than any other three years of his life.

SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 321-2

The New Yankee Doodle

Away down South in other days,
They used to sing so handy,
The tune our fathers loved to sing –
Of Yankee Doodle dandy;
And hail Columbia once they sang,
But now they’ve grown uncivil,
The starry spangled banner too,
They hate it like the devil.

And the flag, the brave old flag,
No more with them will take, sir,
They’ve buried that, and in its place,
They’ve got a pesky snake, sir!
But were the boys to keep the flag,
Our Washington fought under;
Long wave that flag, that good old flag,
The Stars and Stripes, by thunder!

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4

Hiram V. Willey

Corporal, Co. H, 13th Iowa Infantry
Killed in action April 6, 1862

Shiloh National Cemetery

Surgeon Chas. H. Lothrop

The author of this book deserves prominence among those of whom personal sketches are in the volume, both on account of his service with the First Cavalry Regiment of Iowa and because of his labors in massing its history within reasonable compass and within the reach of all. A correspondent wrote him, when the task was assumed. that he was not the right man for historian of the regiment, because he would not do himself justice. The remark was correct, and yet, in all other respects, undoubtedly Surgeon Lothrop was the most competent man in the organization to chronicle its patriotic deeds of heroic years. His abilities and methods of observation, his position and habit of making notes, added to his brotherly regard for and intense admiration of the soldiers of the command, rendered him the fittest man for the work — a labor of love and of life indeed to him, and of gratification to his compatriots.

The paragraphs following are from different pens — written by a professional associate, a comrade of the war, and a citizen friend. (a portion of the latter's having before appeared in print.) — but altogether are very inadequate to the occasion.

The subject of this sketch, Charles Henry Lothrop, M. D., was born at Taunton. Massachusetts. September 3d, 1831. He was of English descent, and could proudly trace his lineage back through Rev. John Lothrop, who arrived in this country September 18th. 1634, to the time of Richard the Second.

After passing through the Taunton high school and the University grammar school, he entered Brown University and there fitted himself for the study of his chosen profession, leaving Brown University before completing his course, to accept the position of superintendent of schools at Youngstown. Ohio, which position he held for a year. He then entered the medical department of the University of the City of New York, and after two years of professional study graduated from that institution June 30th, 1858. He located in Lyons, Iowa, in July of the same year, and at once took an eminent position among the physicians, and by his studies, investigations and writings was known to the profession throughout the State as a man of ability in his calling.

At the breaking out of the rebellion Governor Kirkwood appointed him Additional Assistant Surgeon of the First Iowa Cavalry. Afterward he was promoted to be Assistant Surgeon, and upon the retirement of Surgeon Cochran was promoted to be Surgeon of that regiment, which position he held until its final muster out in March. 1866.

The ripe experience gained during the five years of service in the army added to the firm foundation laid by his early studies, eminently fitted him upon his return home to become one of the foremost surgeons of the day — a rank which he maintained to the day of his death; and it is an evidence of the mental superiority of the man, that, in spite of the terrible affliction which he suffered — the germs of which were contracted during those days of marching and nights of exposure which are so clearly depicted in the foregoing pages, and which for seventeen long years made his life such a torture as none can conceive but those who were with him and attended him, and which he knew could only end in death — he could take such an interest in his profession as to maintain such a position. He died at his home in Lyons, Iowa. February 6th, 1890.

The foregoing history, written by the regimental historian, the late Major and Surgeon Charles H. Lothrop, contains little mention of himself or his personal services while Surgeon of our regiment. To me has been assigned this pleasant yet sad duty. I feel that others more able than myself should have undertaken this, and yet none can have a greater love or kinder remembrances of our dear comrade than the writer. Being but a boy when in the service, I shall always remember the many kind words spoken to me by him and the attention I received at his hands.

Comrade Lothrop was greatly beloved by every member of his regiment. I am safe in saying that no regiment in the Union army received better care at the hands of their Surgeon than the First Iowa Cavalry while in charge of Dr. Lothrop. Always with the boys, whether on the battle field, the march, in the camp or hospital — during his four years of service he was on duty in fifty-two engagements — ever present, with nothing but kind words and loving hands to minister to their wants. An ardent patriot, a true friend, a faithful surgeon, a man whose kindness of heart was exceeded only by his ability as a physician and surgeon, “his boys" will ever remember in kindness the many sacrifices he made for them.

General Burdett says: “I desire to express my great admiration for the many qualities of his character which made him a man quite above the common level of our kind. No truer patriot, no braver soldier, no kindlier man than Dr. Lothrop, was to be found among the survivors of the great struggle in which he won the love and admiration of his comrades."

The truth of Comrade Burdett's assertion can be testified to by all survivors of the First Iowa Cavalry. Courteous to all. the humblest private received the same consideration at his hands as did the Major General commanding the department. No officer in the regiment was more active than he to relieve the regiment of the dishonor cast upon it by General Custer. While some were evidently afraid to express their opinions, Comrade Lothrop was outspoken and fearless of the result. Reporting the matter to the Governor of Iowa, he was largely instrumental in causing the court martial of Custer and his retirement for a year from the army.

What more can be said of our comrade than this? He was beloved by all. and gave his life for the boys he loved so well. Ever anxious to relieve their suffering, he by over-work and exposure contracted the disease which caused such terrible suffering the last twenty years of his life and culminated in his death. Mourned by all lovers of the Union, he will be sadly missed by all his old comrades, in whose interest he labored so long and faithfully. May he rest in peace.

The Doctor was a prominent figure in Lyons, professionally and personally, for thirty years, notwithstanding the fact that paralysis deprived him of the use of his lower limbs seventeen years ago. Under this disadvantage he has, by indomitable will, and as a consequence of his acknowledged skill as physician and surgeon, attended to a large office practice most of the time, besides discharging the duties of Examining Surgeon for Pensions: and further, has compiled and issued State Medical Directories, and performed other [authorial] labors. His latest, most valuable and most laborious literary achievement has been the writing of a history of the First Iowa Cavalry, which, with the help of his wife as amanuensis, after years of correspondence and investigation, was practically completed a few weeks before his death.

From “A Genealogical Memoir of the La-Lothrop Family," published in 1884, though in part tautological, we extract: "Dr. Lothrop is a member of the Iowa and Illinois Central Medical Association, the Iowa State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He has also been an efficient President of the Clinton County Medical Society, a member of the Examining Committee of the Medical Department Iowa State University, and since 1868 an Examining Surgeon for pensions. He is author of the Medical and Surgical Directory of Iowa, and has written several medical essays, some of which have been published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal."

He was a member of Colonel N. B. Howard Post. G. A. R., of De Witt, a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion, and the "Charles H. Lothrop Camp, Sons of Veterans," of Dysart, Iowa, was named after him — which honor he reciprocated by the presentation of a superb banner.

Dr. Lothrop was a man of earnest convictions and strong feelings, and like all such men made hearty friends and bitter enemies. At his best, he was an intense patriot whose ardor continued to the end; a faithful comrade, rendering his work on the history of his regiment a genuine labor of love; an unfaltering and valued friend where he was friendly; and at the close was moved to the depths of his heart with gratitude for the hourly care given him by his wife for nearly a score of years, which unremitted attention alone made life tolerable.

Upon no other Army Surgeon have we ever heard so much praise bestowed by soldiers as upon Dr. Lothrop — and the First Iowa Cavalry passed through many scenes where the worth of Surgeon as well as lighting men was fully tried — and his proudest memento was the regard of the men with whom he had encountered the dangers of war, and many of whom he had rescued from death.


REGISTER OF SERVICE.

In Department of Missouri, from May 26th to September 20th, 1862. In Army of Southwest Missouri, from September 28th to October 16th, 1862. In Army of the Frontier, from October 16th, 1862, to June 5th, 1863. With Arkansas expedition, from June 5th, and in Army of Arkansas and Seventh Army Corps. Cavalry Division, from December, 1863, to May, 1864. In Department of Missouri, from July to December, 1863. In Department of Arkansas, January. 1865. In District of West Tennessee, from February to June. 1865. In Division of the Gulf, from June 23d to February l5th, 1866.

()n detached service, in charge of Post Hospital at Clinton, Missouri, May 26th, 1862. Medical Director Army of the Frontier, December 10th, 1862, and in charge of Field Hospital at Fayetteville, Arkansas. Member of Medical Board to examine qualifications of an Assistant Surgeon, May 27th, 1863. In charge of the Bloomfield General Field Hospital, July 17th, 1863. President of Medical Board for examination of cavalrymen recommended for discharge for disability. October 13th, 1863. Assigned to duty in Seventh Army Corps Hospital, April 7th, 1864. Senior Surgeon of brigade, October 13th. 1864. Surgeon-in-Chief of Cavalry Division, January 22d, 1865. Senior Surgeon of brigade, April, I865. President of Medical Board for examination of officers and enlisted men, August 2d, I865. In charge of hospital steamer Starlight to New Orleans, August 7th, 1865. Senior Surgeon of brigade, February 7th, 1866.

— Desultory and lacking as these tributes to Surgeon Lothrop but profess to be, full acknowledgment of the intelligent and indispensable supervision of publication by Mrs. Lothrop should here be made by Association committee and printer. In the preparation of the history, and more and more as the work advanced, and as his powers failed, she had been feet and hands, eyes and pen to the author; and when no longer able to direct the final details, he was fully content to constitute his co-laborer his literary legatee — and the wisdom of his trust is attested by the unusual completeness and correctness of his great work.

SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 317-21

John Melton

Corporal, Co. E, 13th Iowa Infantry
Killed in action April 6, 1862

Shiloh National Cemetery

First Session -- 37th Congress

WASHINGTON, April 28. – HOUSE – The Speaker announced the following Special Committee on the Confiscation of Rebel property:

Messrs. Olin, of New York, Elliott, of Massachusetts, Noel, of Missouri, Hutchins, of Ohio, Mallory, of Kentucky, Beaman, of Michigan and Cobb, of New Jersey.

Mr. OLIN remarked that he had heretofore asked to be excused from serving on this Committee, and he repeated the reasons for the request, which was now complied with.

On motion of Mr. McPHERSON, it was

Resolved, That the Secretary of War transmit to the House copies of the reports of Commanders of Regiments, Brigades and divisions engaged at the battle of Shiloh, Tenn.

On motion of Mr. GOOCH, the Senate bill for the recognition of Hayti and Liberia, was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

On Motion of Mr. COLFAX it was

Resolved, That the Judiciary Committee be instructed to enquire into the expediency of reporting a bill for punishing all contractors guilty of defrauding the Government, with penalties similar to those for grand larceny.

Mr. SPAULDING introduced a joint resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, authorizing the appointment of Commissioners to negotiate concerning the reciprocity treaty, and authorizing the President to give the necessary instructions for terminating the present unfair treaty.

Mr. ASHLEY reported back from the committee on Treasury the bill to prevent and to punish the practice of polygamy, and to arrest certain acts of the territory establishing the same.

Mr. Merrill of VERMONT said this bill was the same as that introduced by him two years ago, with the exception of the omission of its applicability to the District of Columbia. The bill was passed.

The House resumed the consideration of the report on Government Contracts. The first Resolution reported by them was postponed for the two weeks. The next resolution on the Secretary was then taken up, and is as follows:

That the Secretary of the Treasury be requested to adjust the terms of the Government for the five thousand Hall carbines, purchased thro’ Simon Stevens by. Gen. Jno. C. Fremont, on the 6th day of August, 1861, and afterwards rejected at the U. S. Arsenal at St. Louis, on the basis of a sale of such arms to the Government for $12.50 each, rejecting all other demands against the Government, on account of the purchase of said arms.

Mr. STEVENS moved the following as a substitute for the above:

That nothing has occurred to lessen our confidence in the honesty, integrity and patriotism of Maj-Gen. Fremont.

Mr. WASHBURNE raised the point of order that the substitute was not genuine.

Mr. STEVENS maintains the original resolution imposed censure on Gen. Fremont.

The Speaker maintains Mr. Washburne’s point of order.


WASHINGTON, April 28 – HOUSE. – Mr. SEDGWICK further concluded that the Navy Department conducted its business with energy and credit.

Mr. STEVENS attacked the report of the Committee, and charged that they had proceeded on false principles and acted generally unfairly. House adjuourned.


SENATE. – The President pro tem presented a communication concerning the number of slaves in the District of Columbia. The Secretary said the statistics were compiled some years ago and were perhaps not available now. The communications was referred to the committee on the District of Columbia.

Messrs. KING and SUMNER, presented petitions in favor of the emancipation of the slaves.

Mr. DAVIS presented petitions from Tobacco Manufacturers, asking for a reduction of the proposed tax on Tobacco.

Mr. WILSON, of Massachusetts, from the military committee reported back the bill for the organization of the Signal Department, and moved its indefinite postponement, and it was accordingly postponed.

Mr. WILSON, of Massachusetts, offered a resolution that the Secretary of War be requested to inquire into the condition of the Harper’s Ferry Armory, what damage has been done to it, what is the value of the property of the United States there now, and what amount is necessary, and whether it is expedient to restore the Armory, and re-occupy the works. Adopted.

Mr. POMEROY introduced a bill to prevent the importation of adulterated liquors, by providing a punishment therefore.

On Motion of Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, the resolutions of the Ohio Legislature, in regard to rebels keeping their slaves at Camp Chase was taken up.

Mr. SHERMAN had read a letter from a member of the Legislature concerning the rebel prisoners who were permitted to go about the city of Columbus, lounge at the hotels, and abuse the Government with perfect liberty, also an article in the Cincinnati Commercial to the same effect; also another article in the Cincinnati Gazette, showing that Government was taking measures to have the negroes at Camp Chase liberated and the rebel prisoners removed to proper quarters.

The resolutions were referred to the Military Committee.

On motion of Mr. TRUMBULL the bill for the more convenient enforcement of the laws for security to keep the peace for good behavior was taken up.

After some discussion the bill was passed yeas 35, nays 31.

Mr. WADE presented several petitions asking for a uniform system of taxation according to the population of a State and persisting against the tax bill from the House.

The Senate went into Executive Session.


WASHINGTON, April 29 – HOUSE – Mr. BLAIR of Va., enquired of Mr. Potter, on what authority he yesterday predicated his charge of disloyalty against Judge Pitts of Northampton county, Virginia.

Mr. POTTER replied, on the address of Judge Pitts to the Virginia Legislature at Richmond. The address was now read, in which Judge Pitts refers to the action by the Legislature to depose him without giving him an opportunity for defense. The consummation of this would be manifestly unjust. He could only plead not guilty of disloyalty to the south and doubted not he could triumphantly vindicate himself from every charge his enemies and persecutors might bring against him. He protested against being removed from office by extra constitutional means.

House then resumed the consideration of the report of the Select Committee on Government contracts.

ROSCOE CONKLIN said he voted against raising this Committee. It seemed that none could be so honest or eminent, that it could be desirable to clothe them with the unheard of power as decided on that occasion, it seems unfit to constitute an advisory board to supervise questions of integrity, relating to every man engaged in the administration of departmental affairs. It seemed to him a roving commission to take into consideration the honesty or fraud of all future contracts to be entered into by any Department of the Government. It brought with it grave objections, and little argument could be found in its favor. Experience had demonstrated that the objections to their mode had been abundantly [sustained] by the conduct of the Committee, which had done grave [and] irreparable injustice to both individuals and classes, these as well as the nation have suffered by the declarations of the Committee.

As this Committee was a pioneer experiment and had turned out badly, they could dispense with it. The gentleman (Mr. Davis) had said there was indubitable evidence of fraud. He was right in assuming that the current expenditures of the Government this year was as much as during the Administration which the people hurled from power, because of its corruption. He (Mr. Conkling) remarked that if any man was provided in making that Statement, it would justify the people in resorting to anything best available to redress the wrong. The poisoned arrows furnished by the franking privilege was shot far and wide among the loyal States of the Republic. Like other remarks and statements the gentleman (Davis) made, however, deliberately prepared, this was one of manure, he would be willing to recall.

The Committee had proceeded on exparte testimony in secret; parties never were informed they were to be tried and convicted and stigmatized, and as a case in point he said the Committee had privately and clandestinely gathered evidence against Gen. Fremont to black his character as a citizen and soldier, at the time he was in command of an army. They never informed Gen. Fremont that he was aspersed, or gave him the names of the witnesses against him and they afforded him no opportunity for defense.

What good, Mr. Conklin asked, had the Committee done to offset the harm he was not aware that one single fraud had been exposed by the Committee which remained unearthed at the time they pretended to dig it up.

Mr. CONKLIN asked the Speaker what time remained to him. The speaker replied 18 minutes.

Mr. DAWES asked the time to be extended to the gentleman.

Mr. WASHBURNE, I object to that.

Mr. CONKLING, I know [that]; and do you know how I know it? Because the member from Illinois is the only man in this House surly enough to interpose objections in such a cause.

Mr. WASHBURNE rose to reply, when Mr. Conkling called the member to order.

Mr. WASHBURNE (excitedly). I call the creature to order.

Mr. CONKLING. The member from Illinois understands the rules of this House and must understand that this is not the place for personal altercation. He knows the proper place for that is outside of these walls.

Mr. WASHBURN – excitedly – yes, and I am ready for it.

Mr. CONKLING. No individual in this House better knows than the member from Illinois, that I stand by what I say until convinced that I am in error, and therefore there is no necessity for any interruption here.

Mr. CONKLING in the course of his remarks said he regarded the committee as one of those armaments too expensive under the circumstances to be indulged in.

Mr. CONKLING was severe on the committee, which he thought ought immediately be disbanded.

Mr. WASHBURNE spiritedly replied. He said Mr. Conkling was the instrument of the robbers, plunderers and thieves who had been holding high carnival in anticipation of the overthrow of the Committee.

Mr. HICKMAN vindicated the report of the Committee and referred to the subjects that have heretofore frequently reported.

After [considerable] debate Mr. FENTON, moved the previous question on the pending resolutions of the committee.

Mr. STEVENS moved to table the whole subject, pending which the House adjourned.


SENATE. – Mr. GRIMES introduced a bill to provide that the school tax collected from the colored people of the District of Columbia to be applied to the education of colored Children.

On Motion of Mr. HALE a resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to discharge a contractor after fulfilling his contract, was after some discussion, laid over.

Mr. HALE explained that under the present law the Department can call for a large amount of work to be done at the same price.

Mr. WILSON of Mass., introduced a bill to amend the bill of the last session of Congress confiscating slaves so as to include the wives and children of salves.

On Motion of Mr. POWELL the resolution calling on the Secretary of State for the number and names of persons who have been arrested in the State of Kentucky and imprisoned in forts &c., of other states.

Mr. SUMNER moved as a substitute, that the President, if not incompatible, will give any information in his possession touching the arrest of persons in Kentucky since the first of Sept. 1861.

Mr. POWELL hoped the substitute would not be adopted, as he thought it a mere dodge to evade his resolution.

Mr. Wade presented two petitions from citizens of Ohio for confiscation.

Mr. DOOLITTLE introduced a bill fro the collections of taxes in insurrectionary districts.

The President sent the Senate a communication avowing his responsibility for the arrest of Gen. Stone, and stating that the General cannot be tried at present, because the witnesses whose presence will be necessary are in the field. The Confiscation Bill was take up and Mr. Browning made a lengthy speech in opposition to it.

Without taking the question the Senate adjourned.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4

Battle of Shiloh

(From the Memphis Appeal 17th – correspondence.)

The fatigue of the afternoon was relieved by the arrival from time to time of captured regimental colors and prisoners, of which we have between four and five thousand. The highest in rank is Gen. Prentiss. I had the good fortune to be present when he was brought in to Gen. Beauregard, who was, the moment directing the pursuit. After exchanging salutations, the following conversation in substance took place:

Prentiss, (offering his hand) – Gen. Beauregard, we have felt your power to-day and been compelled to yield to it.

Beauregard – Parton me, sir, you have felt the power of a great nation fighting for its rights of a people fighting for their homes and all they hold dear. And I am sorry to see you fighting against us on the other side.

Prentiss – I cannot see things in that light. We can never consent to the Union being broken up.

Beauregard – But the Union is already broken up, and can never be restored. Henceforth we are a distinct nation, and every one of our people, men, women and children, is willing to fight for it and if necessary, to die in its defense. How many men did you have to-day, General Prentiss?

Prentiss (hesitatingly) – We had six divisions of about 7,000 each. My own division had about 7,500, but it was the largest. A large number of my men, however, were sick. The Tennessee water has proved very unhealthy to them. I had not more than 6,000 men and was badly supported, otherwise the day might have been different. You have whipped our best fighting men to-day.

Here General Beauregard was called off to direct troops to the pursuit, when several bystanders engaged the captured General in conversation.

Bystander – Gen. Prentiss, do you think this battle, so decisive, will lead to peace.

Prentiss – Never, till the Union is restored. – If we do not whip you with the men we have, we will bring more. We have already 200,000 enlisted, who have not yet been furnished with arms. This has been one of our great difficulties. The Belgian rifles purchased by Fremont were of no account you could turn your thumb in them. And the London Tower gun, purchased by the government, had been piled away as useless, since the war with Napoleon. It is only within the last sixty days that our men have been properly armed. No, our people are determined to fight it out. There was a time, after the battle of Manassas, when you might have captured the Capitol and marched into our country, and the future might have been different. No everything is changed.

Bystander – General Prentiss, did you have any of General Buell’s command with you to-day?

Prentiss – No. He is at Nashville.

Bystander – That cannot be. We have certain intelligence of his arrival at Mount Pleasant, on his road to join you.

Prentiss – Buell is not coming here, and if any forces are on the way they must be very small. I know nothing of them.

Bystander – Had you all your forces engaged to-day?

Prentiss – All except one division, which is at Crump’s Landing, several miles below; I expect they will be captured.

Bystander – What has become of your army that we contended with to-day? Have they crossed the river, do you think?

Prentiss – No. They have retired to our gunboats and intrenched works. There will be another fight to-morrow.

Bystander – What do you think will be the result of it?

Prentiss – I am afraid all our men will be taken.

Bystander – Do you think Buell can be there in the morning?

Prentiss – No. He may be there in the afternoon, but I think not. This has been a complete surprise. Had you waited four days longer, we should have been prepared for you.

Here some one brought in a bag of coffee from one of the enemy’s tents, and remarked: “We shall not have to drink rye coffee to-morrow morning.”

Prentiss – we have not had to come to that yet. Our people at home are mixing rye with their coffee, but the army has pure Rio yet.

Here General Beauregard returned and repeated his regret to find General Prentiss fighting against a people only claiming the right to govern itself, and especially to find General W. T. Sherman, who had enjoyed the hospitalities of Louisiana, and a personal acquaintance in front of him.

General Beauregard being called off again, General Prentiss asked the privilege of walking about the quarters, which was granted him upon giving his parole. Thereupon the captured General mingled freely with the whole party, and made himself remarkably affable for a prisoner.

But what of the battle? Ah! Who can describe it? A continuous roar of musketry, unbroken save by the hundred pieces of artillery, and shot and shell whizzing through the air, or tearing up the earth, or felling the timber everywhere. According to the best accounts, the expedition up the Tennessee consisted of nearly 100,000 men, most of whom were in the fight, only one division is said to have been absent, ten miles down the river, at Crump’s Landing. In view of the fact as declared in the enclosed letter, picked up on the battle field, that the enemy fought with desperation, the reader can better imagine what the battle was than I can describe it.

And then the field! Alas, and unfortunately, perhaps, this is still further beyond my powers of description. The scene of carnage, the wounded, the dying and the dead, scattered over a field seven miles in extent, harrow up the souls of too many who have need of consolation. Let me drop a tear over the patriot slain, and draw a midnight curtain around the field of carnage. It must rise again to-morrow.

H. P.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4

The Battles Of A Year

One year ago the 12th of April, occurred the first action in this war. Ten thousand rebels opened fire upon seventy loyal soldiers in Fort Sumter. Since then there have been fought twenty five battles besides numerous skirmishes. The following list will show the years work:

1. Fort Sumter, South Carolina, April 12-13, 1861.

2. Big Bethel, Virginia, June 10.

3. Carthage, Missouri, July 5.

4. Rich Mountain, Virginia, July 12.

5. Carricksford, Virginia, July 14.

6. Bull Run, Virginia, July 21.

7. Springfield, Missouri, August 19.

8. Lexington, Missouri, September 20.

9. Santa Rosa Island, Florida, October 9.

10. Balls Bluff, Virginia, October 21.

11. Fredericktown, Missouri, October 21.

12. Port Royal, South Carolina, November 7.

13. Belmont, Missouri, November 8.

14. Drainsville, Virginia, December 20.

15. Mill Spring, Kentucky, Jan. 19, 1862.

16. Fort Henry, Tennessee, Feb. 6.

17. Roanoke Island, N. C., Feb. 7-8.

18. Fort Donelson, Tenn., Feb. 13-16.

19. Valverde, New Mexico, Feb. 21.

20. Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 6-8.

21. Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 8-9.

22. Newbern, N. C, March 14.

23. Winchester, VA., March 23.

24. Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., April 6-7.

25. Surrender of Island N. 10, April 7.

26. Surender of Fort Pulaski, April 11.

Of these actions, eight, occurring in 1861 were defeats for us, and six victories; but since New Year’s day the list shows an uninterrupted series of splendid successes, for the Union Arms. Leaving out the battle of Pittsburg Landing, our losses during the war have been – in killed, 2400; wounded, 4196; prisoners, 1440; total loss exclusive of deaths in camp by disease, 8126. The rebel loss has been, in killed and wounded 12,429; prisoners, 23,707; besides, which the rebels have lost enormous stores of provisions, not less than 350 cannon, and at least nine generals killed. – {N. Y. Evening Post

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4

Cairo Budget

CAIRO, April 28. – our army at Pittsburg is still gradually advancing, but everything is quiet. Reconnoissance on Friday discovered a camp of the enemy at Pea Ridge, some 72 miles beyond our line of pickets, but they did not advance to attack them.

There is no news from Fort Pillow. The mortars fire occasionally, our gunboats being some distance above.

Refugees from Memphis report a strong Union feeling existing there, and a majority of the people anxiously waiting the arrival of our forces to take possession. It was not believed that the city would be burned, but all cotton sugar and molasses would be destroyed.

Van Dorn, Price, and Jeff Thompson were at Memphis with about 6,000 miserably clad troops. They seemed there to awe people into submission to the conscription act, which was being enforced. Hundreds of inhabitants were leaving daily to avoid impressment.

Most of the twelve months men whose term of service is about to expire, refuse to re-enlist under any circumstances and are deserting in large numbers.

All passes to citizens to go up the Tennessee river are refused.

The river is rising slowly.

CAIRO, April 28. – Six refugees from Memphis arrived here this morning. They left on Sunday, the 20th, in a skiff, and reached our fleet, opposite Fort Pillow, on Friday. Five of them are natives of Connecticut, the other from Freeport, Illinois. They crossed the Mississippi 6 miles below Randolph, making the rest of the way to Ozark, on the Arkansas shore, being often compelled to carry their skiff over bluffs and through fields. They represent that a strong Union feeling exists in Memphis. Several Union clubs met nightly and were constantly increasing in members.

General Prentiss and Federal prisoners taken at Pittsburg were in Memphis two hours, and were taken to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. They received marked attention from Union citizens while in the city, who are becoming bolder daily. Gen. Prentiss made a speech from the platform of the cars, assuring the people that they would all cheer for the Stars and Stripes in two or three weeks. Our prisoners united in singing the “Star Spangled Banner,” and were loudly applauded by the people.

The refugees left Memphis to avoid being impressed, as the conscript act recently passed by the rebel Congress was being enforced. All male inhabitants between the age of 18 and 35 are compelled to take up arms. Large numbers were daily leaving the city and making their way towards our fleet.

Van Dorn, Price and Jeff. Thompson were at Memphis with about 6,000 troops, poorly equipped, most of their clothing in rags. Gov. Harris is at Corinth.

Twenty-nine deserters, from Fort Pillow, arrived yesterday.

Some 6,000 hogsheads of sugar and between 10,000 and 15,000 barrels of molasses were piled on the bluff, ready to be thrown into the river on the approach of the Federal fleet, which was daily expected, as it was generally conceded by the rebels that our fleet would compel them to evacuate Fort Pillow. Gen. Villipgue [sic] was still in command.

It was reported that Gen. Curtis’s scouts had reached the mouth of White River, and that his advance was within one day’s march.

All ideas of burning Memphis had been given up. The gunboat Mallory had been in the course of construction for some time and was rapidly approaching completion. She is plated with railroad iron. Rebel gunboats were continually plying between Memphis and Fort Pillow.

The Fortifications near Memphis have been abandoned, there being no guns mounted on any of them. All rebel stores and machinery had been removed to Columbus, Mississippi.

Negroes had recently advanced considerably in value. At an auction sale, two weeks ago, several were sold at prices ranging from $500 from to $1100. Coffee retailed at 80 cents, rice 7 [¼] cents, bacon 25 cents, chickens $1 each, eggs 40 cents per dozen.

Boats from below report nothing new. Mortars fire occasionally, but with what effect is not [known].

Gen. Halleck is moving forward slowly.

Reconnoissances in force, commanded by Gen. Garfield, went out on Friday and discovered the enemy’s advance about three miles beyond our out posts, encamped on Pea Ridge. Pickets are continually firing on each other.

Our heavy siege guns are being moved to the front as fast as the condition of the roads will permit.

The river continues to rise. Rain has set in, accompanied by strong wind, which may send water over the levee.

Rebel Cavalry have appeared in considerable force upon the river, about 20 miles below Savannah, near Clifton. One of the gunboats had been sent down the river to watch movements.

All boats leaving this point for above have brass pieces on board each side, besides armed guards upon hurricane deck, to return fire from guerrillas on shore.

CAIRO, April 29. – The river has risen an inch since morning.

Intelligence from Pittsburgh indicates an immediate forward movement of our whole army.

Gen. Pope, on Sunday, advanced his division over four miles into the interior from Pittsburg.

A battle was daily expected.

Generals Halleck and Grant have moved head quarters to front and are personally superintending the details of preparations.

Steamer Desoto arrived from gunboat flotilla, but brings no further news.

Deserters from the rebel army confirms the reports of the taking of New Orleans, but gave no particulars.

The Desoto brought 54 bales of cotton and a lot of hides from Osceola, Arkansas.

Gov. Yates has charted the steamer Champion, and is fitting her up as a hospital boat for wounded soldiers. She leaves for St. Louis on Wednesday night, with a fully corps of surgeons and nurses, and will proceed thence up the Tennessee river to await the coming battle.

Later arrivals report the gradual advance of our army from Pittsburgh.

Rumors of the evacuation of Corinth were reiterated by deserters who had arrived at Gen Halleck’s headquarters.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4

John H. Watson

Lieutenant, Co. F, 13th Iowa Infantry
Died of wounds April 9, 1862


Shiloh National Cemetery

20th Massachusetts Infantry

Organized at Readville August 29 to September 4, 1861. Left State for Washington, D.C., September 4. Attached to Lander's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861. Lander's Brigade, Stone's (Sedgwick's) Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Moved to Poolesville, Md., September 12-15, 1861. Guard duty along Upper Potomac till December. Operations on the Potomac October 21-24. Action at Ball's Bluff October 21. Near Edwards' Ferry October 22. Moved to Muddy Branch December 4, and duty there till March 12, 1862. Moved to Harper's Ferry, thence to Charlestown and Berryville, March 12-15. Ordered to Washington, D.C., March 24, and to the Peninsula March 27. Siege of Yorktown April 5-May 4. West Point May 7-8. Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, May 31-June 1. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Oak Grove, near Fair Oaks, June 25. Peach Orchard and Savage Station July 29. White Oak Swamp and Glendale June 30. Malvern Hill July 1 and August 5. At Harrison's Landing till August 15. Movement to Alexandria August 15-28, thence march to Fairfax C. H. August 28-31. Cover retreat of Pope's army from Bull Run August 31-September 1. Maryland Campaign September-October. South Mountain, Md., September 14 (Reserve). Battle of Antietam September 16-17. Moved to Harper's Ferry September 22, and duty there till October 30. Reconnoissance to Charlestown October 16-17. Advance up Loudon Valley and movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-November 17. Battles of Fredericksburg December 11-15. (Forlorn hope to cross Rappahannock December 11.) Duty at Falmouth till April. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, May 3. Salem Heights May 3-4. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 2-4. Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan September 13-17. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. Bristoe Station October 14, Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7, 1864. At Stevensburg till May. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May-June. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7. Laurel Hill May 8. Spottsylvania May 8-12. Po River May 10. Spottsylvania C. H. May 12-21. Assault on the Salient May 12. North Anna River May 23-26. Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23, 1864. Demonstration north of the James July 27-29. Deep Bottom July 27-28. Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18. Ream's Station August 25. Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28. Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865. Watkins' House March 25. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Crow's House March 31. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Sailor's Creek April 6. High Bridge and Farmville April 7. Appomattox C. H. April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. At Burkesville till May 2. March to Washington, D.C., May 2-15. Grand Review May 23. Duty at Washington till July 15. Mustered out July 16 and discharged July 28, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 17 Officers and 243 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 148 Enlisted men by disease, Total 409.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium Of The War Of The Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1254-5

A Black Man's Introduction To White Man's Liberty

A letter in the Cincinnati Enquirer, from a member of Company K, 1st Iowa Cavalry, relates how a fugitive slave was introduced to freedom. His master appeared at Camp Benton, St. Louis, to recover him, when he was ordered off by a corporal of the Iowa cavalry. So soon as he was gone, the negro appeared from under a bundle of sacks in one corner of the corporal’s quarters. The rest is thus told by the letter writer:

“Innumerable questions were being propounded to him, when the corporal advanced, observing, “see here, Dixie, before you can enter the service of the United States, you must be sworn.” “Yes, massa, I do dat,” he replied, when the corporal continued, “Well then take hold of the Bible” – holding out a letter envelope upon which was delineated the Goddess of Liberty standing upon a Suffolk Pig, wearing the emblem of our country. The negro grasped the envelope cautiously with his thumb and forefinger, when the corporal proceeded to administer the oath by saying: “You do solemnly swear that you will support the constitution of the United States, and see that there are no grounds floating upon the coffee at all times.” – “Yes, massa, I do dat,” he replied, “I allers settle him in de coffee pot.” Here he let go of the envelope to gesticulate by a downward thrust of the forefinger, the direction that would be given to the coffee grounds for the future. “Never mind how you do it, shouted the corporal, “but hold onto the Bible.” “Lordy massy, I forgot,” said the negro as he darted forward and grasped the envelope with a firmer clutch, when the corporal continued – “and do you solemnly swear that you will support the Constitution of the loyal States and not spit upon the plates when cleaning them, or wipe them with your shirt sleeve.” Here a frown lowered upon the brow of the negro, his eyes expanded to their largest dimensions, while his lips protruded with a round form, as he exclaimed, “Lordy massa, I nebber do dat; I allers wash him nice; ole missus mighty ‘ticular ‘bout dat.” “Never mind ole missus,” shouted the corporal, as he resumed – “and you do solemnly swear that you will put milk in the coffee every morning, and see that the ham and eggs are not cooked too much or too little. “Yes, I do dat; I’s a good cook.” – “And lastly,” continued the corporal, “you do solemnly swear that when this war is over you’ll make tracks for Africa almighty fast.” “Yes, Massa, I do dat. I allers wanted to go to Cheecargo.” Here the regimental drums beat up for dress parade, when Tom Bonton (That being his name) was declared duly sworn in and commissioned as chief cook in Company K of the first Iowa Cavalry.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4

From Yorktown

Nothing important has been received here from Yorktown. Preliminary operations are reported as rapidly progressing.

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

Tribune’s Dispatch

Washington, April 14.

An officer of the 77th New York regiment reports that 4 of General [Banks’] men have been found tied to a tree with their heads shot off. The story is not credited.

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