The Escape of the Nashville

Sufficient explanation has been made by the Navy Department to convince all fair-minded men that the escape of the Nashville was due alone to the fact that the Department had no vessels within its reach to prevent it. The various naval expeditions, and the coast blockade, have occupied every vessel as fast as it could be fitted out. As soon as it was known that the Nashville had arrived, which was on the 4th of March, the Secretary of the Navy telegraphed to various stations, but was unable to reach any vessels suitable for the propose, except those undergoing repairs. He was answered from Boston that two gunboats would be ready in two or three days; but owning to a defect discovered in the engine of one, and delay of the other from some similar cause, they did not leave till the 14th, and when they arrived at Fortress Monroe the Nashville had escaped.

The gunboat Georgia, which had been of Beaufort, was obliged to come into port for coal at the same time the Nashville escaped. – The abuse which has been heaped upon Secretary Welles for this matter was totally ignorant and senseless, and it is notable that this unscrupulous attempt to make the head of the Naval Department odious, seems to come almost entirely from the papers which insist that the waste of our resources on land shall not be criticized, because it may impair public confidence in that direction; and thereby injure the public service. – Cin. Gaz.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2

The St. Louis Democrat says . . .

. . . that the reason for placing Buckner in close confinement at Fort Warren is stated to be that, after declaring upon his honor that he bore no concealed weapons, a loaded revolver was found upon him.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2

Fitzjames O’Brien . . .

. . . one of the late Gen. Lander’s staff, died on Sunday, from lockjaw, in consequence of a wound received in a skirmish about two months ago. Mr. O’Brien was a native of Ireland, and came to New York ten years since. He possessed fine literary talents, and was one of the most popular contributors to the Eastern magazines and papers.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2

Grain And Stock Trade Of Chicago

We learn that Messrs. Fairbanks have set in the elevators in this city, during the last year, about seventy-five of their five hundred bushel hopper scales, and sever smaller ones: Each of these can be loaded to its full capacity, and the load discharged in a few minutes, which shows something of the fast amount of grain which can be weighed upon them. They have also set, at the different stock yards in the city, five of their stock scales, with platforms of sufficient size to weigh a whole care load at once, which must add greatly to the facilities for shipping live stock from this market. – Chicago Tribune.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2

Bill to Disfranchise the Rebels

A letter from Washington to the Chicago Tribune says:

One of the most important measures introduced at this session of Congress is the disfranchising bill proposed by Mr. Wilson of Iowa, which provides that no person shall hereafter be eligible to office who has taken up arms against the United States, after having taken an oath to support the Constitution. The bill is intended to apply to all former Senators, Representatives, Federal and State officers, who have joined in the rebellion. The Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of all the States, prescribe an oath of fidelity to the former instrument, and hence every rebel who has held an office is perjured before God and man. The oath of such a person on assuming another office under the United States Constitution would be a mockery and blasphemy. Yet I venture to say that the Democrats will oppose the bill with as much firmness as though it were a proposition to take a part of the tax burden from the shoulders of loyal citizens and put it on the traitors. Col. Voorhees, Wood, and most of the Democratic leaders here, long for the day when they can grasp the hands of Davis, Slidell and Wigfall in the Senate Chamber, and hold sweet communion with Pryor Keitt, Braksdale and Hindman in the House. Mr. Wilson’s bill cuts off all these luxuries, and hence they will be sure to oppose it.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2

"Old Clift"

One of the associates of Parson Brownlow, of Tennessee, both in religion and patriotism, is called “Old Clift.” The Nashville correspondent of the New York Tribune gives the following account of him:

“One of the most eminent and interesting actors throughout the Union drama in Tennessee is ‘Old Clift,’ a Methodist clergyman, living near Chattanooga, well known for integrity and righteousness of purpose throughout the eastern and middle districts. From the very outbreak of secessionism, he opposed it with a zealous vigor and consistency. At the Union Convention, held at Knoxville last summer, he made a violent speech in favor of a separation of the loyal from the disloyal counties, and the formation of a new State. This movement having failed, he went home and commenced active defiance of the rebel authorities by organizing the Unionists of his vicinity into companies and regiments. As late as September, there was an encampment of several hundred under his command in the mountains of Bradley county, over which the stars and stripes floated with a sword underneath. It was afterward broken up, but he managed to keep up and extend a secret organization, notwithstanding the constant efforts of the rebels to capture him, and being notified of the intentions of the bridge-burners, he had nearly a thousand men assembled under his standard in the middle of November. Seeing no prospect of Union support, he again disbanded his force. Upon the news of the fall of Fort Donelson, he immediately gathered a band of several hundred with whom he made his way to Gen. Carter’s command. He is now at the head of a newly organized regiment.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2

A Cipher Dispatch from Beauregard

From the N. Y. Evening Post

We have been shown a dispatch for message in cipher, from Beauregard to some Confederate in Washington, which, in addition to the ingenuity which characterizes the cipher, contains intrinsic evidence both as to its origin and the desperate means proposed by the rebel general for getting possession of the capital. It seems certain that arson and assassination were component parts of the chivalry of which we have heard so much a year or so ago, and perhaps the publication of such a dispatch as this, may modify the tender sensibility of those who adhere to the kid-glove policy in dealing with the rebels who themselves stick at nothing in prosecuting their traitorous schemes. The message deciphered, reads thus:

“I shall cross the river at Little Falls on Sunday at 2 a. m. Signal red and white rockets from Turner’s Hill. For God’s sake don’t fail us. Fire the city at all points as agreed upon at once. Despatch [sic] Lincoln and Scott as you suggest, and let the execution of our plot be perfect.

BEAUREGARD.”

The construction of the cipher in which the above interesting communication is made is difficult of explanation but simple in practice. It consists in laying over a white surface a piece of paper on which is printed the alphabet in various combinations and in parallel lines, covering the entire sheet. By perforating both pieces at the letters needed to spell out such words as the writer wishes to use, the white paper becomes an inexplicable medley of little holes, useless to every one who has not the corresponding printed sheet under it. of course the confederate conspirator has only to fit the white paper sent to him to the key in his possession to read with facility what his friends in Dixie would have him know and do.

We may add that the message above printed was found under the circumstances which verify it as authentic and genuine. It is in the hands of a gentleman of this city, and is highly prized as in important link in the chain of evidence which will go to condemn the great treason when History shall make up the account.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2

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Western Inventions

The following important Patents were issued to Iowa inventors from the United States Patent Office, March, 1862. Reported for the Davenport GAZETTE, by Coburn & Marrs, Patent Attorneys and Solicitors, No. 11 Larmon Block, corner of Clark and Washington Streets, Chicago Ill.

James Canfield, Sabula, Iowa, Improved Gold Washer.
Lucinda Humphrey, Tipton, Iowa, Improved Skirt Protector.
G. S. Knapp, Dubuque, Iowa, Improvement in Harvesters.
W. H. White, Dubuque, Iowa, Improved Rooffing [sic].
Vincent & Leslie, Quasqueton, Iowa, improvement in Churns.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2

The Public Anxiety

It is impossible for any one mind to compute the depth of sorrow and grief and painful anxiety, sown broadcast over our country by the double-dyed villains that through their mad ambition have plunged it into the vortex of misery. As we write hundreds of thousands of hearts are throbbing in painful anxiety at the fate of those whom they love. North and south, east and west, the same terrible feeling of suspense prevails. The West is looking with tearful eyes and throbbing hearts to the result of the recent great battle on the Tennessee river. The East has its eyes on Chesapeake Bay and is tremulously waiting the result of the terrible conflict so soon to be waged there. The South is looking in all directions, for wherever her sons are fighting they are bleeding and dying. Never before was our country in such condition. Fearful will be the penalty visited upon the guilty heads of the leaders of this ungodly rebellion. If they escape immediate punishment by fleeing the country, justice will seek them out at last though she track them to the uttermost bounds of earth. Remorse like a vulture will prey upon their vitals – they will live despised of men and die rejected of God.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2

Desperation of the Rebel Leaders

Jeff. Davis recently sent a message to his Congress which not only shows the desperate condition of the rebel leaders, but the utter dishonesty of their course. Repudiating everything that savers of uprightness and common honesty, he recommends that the Southern Confederate Government assume the prerogative of an autocrat, or of the Pope at Rome, and absolve all prisoners released by the U. S. Government on parole from their oaths, and that they again be mustered into the service of the Confederate Government. First, the rebel Government refuses to exchange a like number of prisoners, and then absolves from their oaths those who have been returned! Was ever such high-handed outrage known among civilized nations? But it is upon a par with all their acts, and so sure as there is a God who watches over the destinies of nations, will the machinations of those wicked men be frustrated.

But this is not all; Jeff. Davis also recommends that all citizens of the Confederate States between the ages of 18 and 45 be enrolled for military duty. This act of universal conscription will bear heavily upon those soldiers who, having enlisted for one year, are now about to be discharged and return to their homes. The bright anticipations they had of again meeting their families after the absence of a year, during which time they have suffered unparalleled hardships, are dashed to the ground, and they find themselves arrested by the hand of despotism and forced into the rebel army without hope of speedy relief, unless the angel of death come to their rescue.

Men thus dragged into service against their own wishes, fighting under leaders they have cause to despise, and to build up an oligarchy, the fearful workings of which they already experience, can never contend against the volunteers of the North, fighting for principles and the right, under officers whom they love. A rebellion that sustains itself by violating every principle of morality, that sets at defiance even the common honesty that exists among thieves, that robs its subjects of their property for its own sustenance and presses them into its service to fight for the existence of such things must soon be brought to an end. Its own people have not the heart to fight and in their desperation will soon rise up and crush their oppressors. It is a rebellion not only against the Government, but against the people of the South, and it will not be long before they so regard it, if their leaders do not soon submit to the Government they have sought to overthrow, the masses will take the power in their own hands and overthrow them. There is a point beyond which human endurance cannot go, and it seems to us that the point has been reached in the South, and the traitors will soon rebel against their own leaders if they persist in revolt.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 2

Des Moines Correspondence

DES MOINES, April [8], 1862.

At the close of the session I deem it proper to give you a little idea of what has been done in the Iowa Legislature since last I wrote. The last week is always a busy one. Bills are rushed through with great haste, though not always with equal prudence.

Among the important bills passed within the last week is Lane’s militia bill. Your correspondent will take back all he said about the impossibility of passing a bill of that character. Any prediction as to the action of an Iowa Legislature is very liable to fail. It did seem as though no bill of that kind could pass; but Mr. Lane knew no such word as fail, and engineered his bill through very successfully and against the predictions of many of its friends. He is deserving of much credit, both for the care bestowed in drafting the bill, which is very complete and carefully arranged, and for the determination and ability he has manifested in urging its claims upon the Legislature. The bill is considerably modified since it was first presented. Everything unnecessary has been omitted, everything that called for expense, or that related to tax or compulsory service. By this bill the militia service will be wholly voluntary, and no fines or taxes are imposed. During the present military spirit, and that which will prevail for years after the war is over, a law providing for voluntary drill in the militia will perhaps suffice. Companies will be formed, and thousands of the young men of Iowa will delight to be drilled by the brave boys who have learned the art of war by practical experience and hard service.

The income tax bill has been killed, and in its stead a bill has been passed reducing the salaries of Supreme and District Judges and of certain State officers. This is a Senate bill, and was only entertained by the House because it was all that could be had. It is a very questionable policy to reduce the salaries of our high officials so low as to make these officers feel that by accepting the offices tendered them they must submit to a pecuniary loss. It will do for men to talk of honor and patriotism, but in this practical age our most talented and patriotic citizens even must look to compensation more or less. If you place the salary too low, no one but a wealthy man or second or third rate one can afford to accept the office. But the people demanded some measure of the kind, and the Legislature has responded.

The Senate bill for the protection of the School Fund has passed both Houses. It makes the several counties liable for the fund loaned out, if loss occurs through any fault of the officers. If it occurs through depreciation of the value of property, the counties are exonerated from all liability for the loss thereby incurred. The counties are made liable to so great an extent that the fund will be more secure than at present.

A bill was introduced providing for the gradual absorption of the fund into the State Treasury, but it was brought forward too late, even had there been no fear on the part of members that the fund would be quite as insecure in the hands of the agents of the State. Such a feeling did exist, but I think a full discussion of the question would have resulted in a different feeling.

The bill providing for a waive of the Stay of Execution in certain cases was defeated.

Yesterday both Houses passed bills in quick succession, a large number being disposed of. Last evening the last sitting of the session commenced. The members felt very joyous over the prospect of an early boat ride in the morning, and of a speedy return home after the protracted labors of the winter. The weather was so unfavorable that comparatively few ladies were present, but those who were present represented their sex very worthily. They know, as ladies of discernment always know, that the ‘lords of creation’ are more good-natured and agreeable after a hearty repast then when they feel the gnawing of hunger. Either because they realized this or because their own generous impulses prompted them, or for both reasons combined, they prepared, in a room below, a sumptuous midnight repast. It was very opportune, I assure you. Every one was ready for it and every one inwardly pleased the hearts that participated, and the hands that arranged the generously bestowed luxuries of the occasion. After satisfying their appetites the members commenced their morning labors at 1 o’clock A. M. The House being somewhat ahead of the Senate resolved itself into a class meeting during a part of the morning, while waiting for business. Many noble sentiments were uttered; the brotherly impulses of all hearts were stirred, and it was refreshing to hear the experience of members, and witness the kindly flow of feeling and sentiment. A little before 6 o’clock the Senate having disposed of the most important bills before it, the Legislature adjourned.

And here let me state that our very worthy Speaker has for over a week been confined to his room by sickness. His absence is very much regretted, for he is not only an admirable officer, but a popular man. He is still confined to his room. During his absence Mr. Rothrock of Cedar as filled the Chair, and notwithstanding the embarrassment of that position at the close of the session, he has proved himself equal to the emergency. A little more experience will make him one of the best presiding officers that could be selected. In this, as in all other positions, he has proven himself a strong and worthy man.

After the adjournment there was a great hurrying to and from on the part of members in order to be ready for the boat, which was waiting for them. Nearly a hundred members went down on the Des Moines City, which left the wharf at 7 A. M. We have thus bid adieu to the assembled wisdom of the State, and are now left to ourselves once more, and to the quiet of our ordinary business life.

In biding [adieu] to the legislators it my very justly be said that no body of men assembled in this State in a legislative capacity, ever went to work with a more earnest determination to transact the business before them faithfully and speedily than the members of the Ninth General Assembly. This determination has been manifested all through the session. The condition of the country is such that much business came before them which would not in ordinary times. Not withstanding this extra business, the session was not a day longer than the session two years ago. Each lasted 86 days. One thing was very manifest in this Legislature – a disposition to frown down long and buncombe speeches.

This much I can say will all truthfulness of the last General Assembly. In whatever respects it may be criticized, no one who has had any acquaintance with the action of the previous Assemblies will deny what I have said above. Neither will any one deny that Scott county has been represented by a very worth delegations – all good, able, generous and faithful as men and as legislators.

J. R. C.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 1

Late News - By The Mails

Later from Gen. Grant’s Column.

The Enemy will make another Stand.

THEIR STRONGHOLDS NOT TAKEN.


Special to the Chicago Tribune.

CAIRO, April 11.

Our reporter has just arrived from Pittsburg, and furnishes the following:

The attack commenced about daybreak Sunday morning. Taylor’s battery and Waterhouse’s battery opened the fight, supported by the 23d Illinois on the right, the 77th Ohio supporting the left of Taylor’s, and the 53d Ohio supporting the left of Waterhouse’s. These regiments belonged to Sherman’s Division, occupying the extreme right. Both of the Ohio regiments ran – the 77th without firing a gun – leaving Waterhouse without support. He fought half an hour, however, retreating with only three guns. Capt. Waterhouse was wounded in the thigh by a Minie bullet, but not fatally. His battery was very badly cut up. His 1st Lieutenant, Abbott, was slightly wounded in the shoulder, with Chandler and Woodward, and five gunners were also wounded.

Taylor continued the fight, supported splendidly by the 22d Illinois, until he and his support were outflanked on both sides. He then retreated through a cross fire, having but one man killed and seventeen wounded. He lost 12 horses, his forge and battery wagons.

Meanwhile Waterhouse, with his three guns, took up a second position, supported by the second brigade of McClernand’s division, Colonel Marsh commanding, composed of the following troops, viz: the 11th, 17th, 20th, 45th and 48th Illinois. During the forenoon they were compelled to retire through their own encampment with heavy loss into some woods in the rear, where they formed a second line of battle.

McClernand ordered an advance. They advanced 100 rods and came in sight of the rebels, and here commenced on of the most fiercely contested engagements of the day, resulting in the repulse of the enemy, who were driven back through our encampments. The enemy met strong reinforcements and our ammunition being out retired. Another brigade took our place, but were compelled to retreat until within half a mile of the river; at that time our artillery and gunboats opened fire, the latter causing awful slaughter. The enemy were occupying our camp and the gunboats threw shell over our heads, and the ground was literally filled with rebel slain.

When Taylor’s battery took up their second position, it was upon the parade ground of the first division. The rebel battery took position about eight hundred yards in their front, resulting in a splendid artillery duel, which silenced the rebel battery and blew up their caisson. Our boys set up a shout which fairly drowned the musketry. Taylor’s battery, after that, were ordered in the reserve.

The left wing, with Prentiss on the left of Sherman, were drawn back parallel with the right. The gunboat firing was kept up all night.

Poor Carson, the scout, was killed about sunset. He had just come across the river with intelligence that Buell was crossing. He reported to the commanding General, stepped back, and that instant his head was shot off by a cannon ball.

Several Mississippi regiments who had arrived Saturday night at the rebel camp, double quicked to the battle-ground and were immediately repulsed.

Col. Hicks of the 40th Illinois is badly wounded, but not fatally. Lieut-Colonel Kilpatrick, 14th Illinois, killed; Lieut-Colonel Ross, 32d Illinois, wounded, dangerously.

Col. David Stuart was wounded through the left chest, but in spite of his Surgeon’s remonstrances, he went back upon the field.

When the boat left Col. Wallace was still living with faint hopes of recovery.

Col. Sweeney, of the 32nd Illinois, was wounded four times, not fatally, but kept the field until ordered off.

Col. Haynie was also wounded.

Gen. John McArthur was wounded in the foot.

Dr. Roscotton of Peoria, brigade surgeon, was seriously injured. Dr. Young, 48th Illinois, was wounded in the head; Frank W. Rielly, assistant surgeon 48th Illinois had a Minie ball shot through his leg, but his wound is not fatal.


SECOND DAY.

The attack was commenced by Lew Wallace’s division, who had come up in the night from Crump’s Landing, on the enemy’s left. The enemy fought with bulldog courage, and were driven back inch by inch, hotly contesting the ground. Six of our batteries were recaptured, and about thirty of the rebel guns taken. A Michigan battery captured by the 16th Wisconsin on Monday.

At this time, Beauregard was wounded in the arm, in his efforts to recover their battery. He led the attack in person, urging his men on with his sword. He was successful in taking the battery, but it was again taken from him. It was captured and recaptured no less than six times. Co. A, Chicago Light Artillery, was so severely handled on the first day that they were only able to man three guns on Monday. – But with these, after a desperate conflict, they succeeded in completely silencing and capturing a rebel battery of six guns, but they were compelled to relinquish it from lack of horses to draw the guns off. They had to take off their pieces by hand.

Out of seven men who were drawing one, five were struck down, two killed and three wounded. There were in all two killed and thirty-two wounded.

The general retreat of the enemy commenced about dark Monday. Our cavalry followed them up all night until their horses were tired. But for the impassable condition of the roads (it having rained) the rout would have been complete, and would could have carried their entrenched camp at Corinth. This latter will be impossible, for the above reasons, for some days. Their artillery is superior to ours. They have some of the finest ordnance officers in the country. Their small arms are also equal to ours.

Our reporter places the loss of the enemy at 15,000 killed and wounded, and our loss at 10,000 killed and wounded. These will be found moderate estimates. The enemy have taken more prisoners than we.

The 8th Iowa, Col. Geddes, were captured almost en masse. Gen. Prentiss, after he was captured, escaped and came into our camp alone.

The rebels had the very flower of the Potomac army with them. Breckinridge was reported killed on Sunday.

When our reporter left Wednesday morning, our advance, which had been pursuing, had only occupied the ground formerly held by him about seven miles from the enemy’s entrenched camp, which is located half-way between Corinth and Pittsburg.

The enemy are straining every nerve to get in reinforcements, and bloody work must yet occur before we drive them from their position.

The names of the killed and wounded are coming, but are so numerous and scattered as to preclude the getting of anything like a detailed account. Every means of transportation is being used for the wounded, and every facility afforded those who have so nobly come forward to care for them.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 1

List of sick and wounded on board the steamer Jennie Whipple . . .

. . . from the Hospitals at Keokuk and St. Louis:

John Iback, co K, 5th Iowa; Geo. Sullers, Co E, 5th Iowa; N H Smith, Co I, 5th Iowa; H C Rouse, co C, 10th Iowa; N. Tilliam, co C, 10th Iowa; B Dunbar, co C, 10th Iowa; G Gufford, co C, 10th Iowa; – Cora, Co A, 10th Iowa; C G Bailey, co A, 10th Iowa; – Clemmers, co A, 5th Iowa; Benton Ayers, co A, 5th Iowa; C J Boles, co K, 5th Iowa; C L Holcomb, co F, 10th Iowa; S Shockly, co B, 10th Iowa; J Ricer, co I, 10th Iowa – Haller, co F, 5th Iowa; – Brassfield, co F, 2d Iowa cav.; E Estebrook, co F, 2d Iowa cav.

Also, Lieut M P Benton, co F, 8th Iowa, wife in attendance; Capt. J. B. Hawley, co H; 45th Illinois, wife in attendance; Lieut. G. F. Vail, co K, 16th Wisconsin, brother in attendance; also corpse of private Andrew Pye, 23d Missouri.

And now a touching incident: Miss Annie B___ of Davenport, came down with us from Davenport, expecting to meet her betrothed, one of Iowa’s brave patriots, one of those brave Iowans, who have proved such heroes in our late victorious battles, Corporal J. S. Christian. Poor fellow, he died at the Hospital at Keokuk but yesterday, too soon for the loved ones to meet in life. He had left the boat this morning but a short time, when the corpse was brought on board. She now accompanies the illustrious dead to the hearth that was soon to make her a wife. We all feel that we cannot honor this loving and devoted woman too much.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

We were shown a fine specimen . . .

. . . of sugar made from the box elder which abounds in this county. It was made by Mr. Picket, of Bear Grove, and is superior in grain to anything we ever saw made from the tree. In sweetness and flavor it is equal to the common maple sugar, and as the box elder is nothing more than the ash-leaved maple, can be called maple sugar itself. Wouldn’t it pay for farmers to make their [own] sugar from this tree. – {Guthrie Gazette.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

Polygamy Abolished

The lower house of Congress has passed a bill, by a large majority, prohibiting polygamy in all the Territories, and repealing the laws of Utah on that subject.

This the Mormons will regard as striking at the principle of “popular sovereignty” with a vengeance, and we may have another rebellion on our hands in that quarter.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

New Paper

A new paper of the Democratic persuasion, with “conservative” instincts, is about to be started in Burlington, coming forth from the ashes of the defunct Gazette. It is to be printed Daily and Weekly and christened THE ARGUS. The enterprising individuals who have the newspaper in charge, are both strangers in Burlington. They are G. W. Todd, late of a Des Moines paper, and A. P. Bentley of the Bloomfield Clarion. What the character of the Argus will be we, and the public, can judge better when we see it.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

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The following names of the killed and wounded . . .

. . . are given in Lieut. Col. Moss’ official report of a scouting expedition, organized April 13th, and composed of companies D and K, 1st Iowa Cavalry, which [succeeded] in destroying a roving band of rebels in Vernon county, Mo., killing among others, the notorious Dan Henley, the wild [Irishman] of St. Clair and Vernon counties:

Killed – Privates Jas. Whitford, and Oscar Crumb.

Wounded – Sergt. Jas. Lyon, co. K, in shoulder, severely; Privates Thos. Tupper, co. K, severely; Enoch Shannon, co. D, severely; Jacob Harsh, co. D, slightly.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

Ex-Governor Stewart of Missouri . . .

. . . who is a candidate for Congress in the St. Joe district is out in favor of emancipation – yes – EMANCIPATION! He avows himself in favor of abolishing slavery in Missouri. Is not this perfectly awful? Gov. Stewart was the last loyal Governor of Missouri – was nominated and elected as a Democrat. Is it not most remarkable that a Democrat, of so high position and standing, whose fidelity was above suspicion, should have fallen into the slough of fanaticism and Abolitionism! Father Mahoney should make haste to fulminate a [bill] of excommunication against him and send it down to Missouri by the hand of his faithful esquire, the dignified, the respectable, the pious, white cravated Hendershot of Wepello. This last person, when he comes in sight of the recusant ex-governor, should be instructed to put on his most killing and withering look, crying with a loud voice Abolitionist! ABOLITIONIST!! ABOLITIONIST!!! If he can stand this the case is past the reach of surgery – put him out!

But suppose that this fanaticism which seems to be catching, should break out in Missouri, as in Western Virginia – suppose that a majority of the people of that State should declare against slavery and should abolish it, what will be the effect? Evidently the Union can never be restored just as it was. Never. And the resurrectionists say they never will accept the Union unless it is restored just as it was! Here is a complication.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

14th Iowa Infantry Monument: Shiloh National Military Park

IOWA
TO HER

14TH INFANTRY.
TUTTLE’S (1ST) BRIGADE
W. H. L. WALLACE’S (2D) DIVISION.
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

IOWA
14TH REGIMENT INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS
COMMANDED BY COL. W. T. SHAW

THIS REGIMENT (SEVEN COMPANIES), HELD THIS POSITION AGAINST REPEATED ATTACKS FROM 9 A.M. UNTIL 4 P.M., APRIL 6, 1862.

IN ATTEMPTING TO FOLLOW THE REST OF THE BRIGADE, WHICH WAS BEING WITHDRAWN, IT BECAME HOTLY ENGAGED ABOUT 200 YARDS EAST OF THIS POSITION. REPULSING THIS ATTACK IT CONTINUED TO RETIRE TOWARDS THE HAMBURG ROAD, FIGHTING HEAVILY. REACHING THE CAMP OF THE 32D ILLINOIS INFANTRY IT FOUND ITSELF ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY THE JUNCTION OF THE CONFEDERATE RIGHT AND LEFT WINGS. IT WAS CAPTURED ABOUT 6 P.M.

PRESENT FOR DUTY, INCLUDING MUSICIANS, TEAMSTERS, ETC., 442.

ITS LOSS WAS, KILLED 8 MEN; WOUNDED 2 OFFICERS AND 37 MEN; CAPTURED 15 OFFICERS AND 211 MEN; TOTAL 273.

OF THE WOUNDED, 5 DIED OF THEIR WOUNDS; OF THE CAPTURED, 15 DIED IN PRISON.


See Also:

• Dedication Exercises at the 14th Iowa Regimental Monument
• The Iowa Monuments At Shiloh National Military Park
• Official Report of William T. Shaw
• Iowa Colonels and Regiments: William T. Shaw

It is a fact . . .

. . . in the highest degree creditable, that at the breaking out of the rebellion, the great majority of the Democratic party in the free States proved loyal and patriotic and rushed to arms, shoulder to shoulder with the Republicans, to save the Union and preserve the Government, resolving to bury all past differences and party platforms, until Rebellion should be put down. The Republican Administration met this creditable display of patriotism with a magnanimity never before exhibited by any party. Mr. Lincoln gave to his defeated adversaries a seat in his Cabinet and a moiety of the appointments. Half the army appointments, at least, including those of the highest grade, have been bestowed upon loyal Democrats. Loyal Democrats have been trusted, consulted and honored. Look at the appointments of Judge Holt, Andy Johnson, Dix, Halleck, McClellan, &c., &c. These loyal Democrats have been as implicitly trusted and as willingly honored and promoted, when deserving it, as Republicans. – And they are to-day giving their support to the Administration, without reserve, as heartily as the Republicans themselves. The resurrection movement is not from them and has not their countenance or support. They have no wish to divide and distract the country upon a new partisan issue. It could do no possible good and might do much evil. The movement is not by or through them, and is not dictated by loyal or patriotic motives. It comes from the riff-raff of the old Democratic party, stimulated by the treasonable secret society known as the “K. G. C.’s” at the bottom of the Rebellion itself. It is championed by men of doubtful loyalty and depraved and despicable character, whose personal labors have been directed to discouraging the war, breaking down the patriotic sentiment of the people and discouraging the payment of taxes. They are now organizing an anti-war party, clothing it in the livery of Democracy, in order to service the Devil of Secession. They are doing the work of Jeff. Davis as openly as they dare.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2