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From: "Elaine Rathmann" <>
Subject: [IA-CIVIL-WAR] Dly. Gazette 4-24-62 Pt. 1
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 09:57:25 -0600

The Daily Gazette
City of Davenport
Thursday Morning
April 24, 1862
Part 1

A Thrilling Adventure

A letter from Fortress Monroe says:
We learn from Gen. Wool that there was an accident of a most thrilling
nature at General McClellan's headquarters yesterday. Gen. Fitz John Porter
ascended in a balloon, for the purpose of making a reconnaissance. When high
up, the rope broke, and off floated the balloon, directly over the enemy's
entrenchments. The officer was considered to be inevitable lost. The hearts
that were wrung with the hardness and strangeness of his fate, were suddenly
cheered as well as amazed with the spectacle of the return of the balloon
over our own camps. It had ascended to a counter current of air, and was
wafted with all its precious freight, back to safety. Once again over his
own troops, the soldier aeronaut pulled the valve and discharged the gas
from the balloon, and came down to earth "by the run," entirely unharmed.
What he saw is for military use, and not for publication.


Pittsburg Landing
April 15, '62
List of Killed and Wounded of 8th Iowa Infantry in the Battle of Pittsburg
Landing, April 6th, 1862.

Killed.

Co. A-Nelson Howard, Geo. Heller, Augustus Haun.
Co. B-Robt. Moody, Wm Penrose, Zalmon W. Kelly.
Co. C-James H. Young.
Co. D-Samuel Smith.
Co. E-Jno H. Patterson.
Co. F-Capt. Wm. F. Hogan, Geo. Johnson, Calvin L Bland, Jas. Carlyle,
Timothy Hensley, Thos. V. Lane, Jno D. Monical, Wm. M. Torrence.
Co. G-W. Pratt Bush, Thos. F. Greenlee, Jas. Paterson.
Co. H-Isaac Noel, Jeremiah Pattie.
Co. I-Thos. R. Robb, Jno Badger, Henry C. Gordon, Chas. M. Lane, Jno Murphy.
Co. K-A. C. Heinsecker, Jno McQueen, A. Thompkins.
Total, 33.

Wounded.

Co. A-Dan'l. Welsh, Jno R. McDougal, Jerome Lucas, Alex H. Swearengen (since
died.)
Co. B-Lieut. E. Tichenor, Jno Tichenor, Jno Christian, Luther McCullough,
Jacob Walker, Rudolph Murray, Jno A. Rown, Wilbur R. Lockwood, Whittaker
Haynes, Wm. C. Logan, Wm. H. Golden, Hiram Barber, S. A. Walker, Henry
Somman, Jno Moody, Amos Merritt, Christopher Quinn, Christian Lemberg, N.
Frylinger, Orlando R. Fluke, J. Newton Pursell.
Co. C-David J. Palmer, Jas. Marshall, David Parish.
Co. D-Jas. Gardner, Julius Gardner, Leonard Blakesley, Mason Ogan, John A.
Angler.
Co. E-R. F. Wolf, J. R. Pearsall, B. F. Banty, W. McFarland, M. H. Dean, Wm.
Wolf, Albert Bremer, Lemuel Kincade, Frank McConnell, Sabine Fowler, F. M.
Baufman (since died.)
Co. F-Robt. D. Hagin, Wm. Conger, Benj. F. Cox, Geo. W. Hodson, Wm. Kreger,
Wm. W. Cronkrite, Sam'l M. Shrekley, Benj. F. Stevenson, Adolph Seible,
Isaac M. Williams.
Co. G-John Johnson, Jonathan Sprague, Jacob Harr, Geo. W. O'Neal.
Co. H-Capt. Fred S. Palmer, Lieut. D. J. Craigle, Lt. Chas. Wells, Jacob
Fredericks, Johnathan Platz, Elias M. blizzard, Jacob L. Billings, Marion F.
Crull, Luther Colwin, Henry H. Lower, Chas. McDevitt, Stephen D. Rohrer,
Solomon Wilcox, Merton D. Groves, Joseph F. Lyon.
Co. I-Chas. E. Fox.
Co. K-Lieut. W. T. Hayes, G. McHenry, Sam'l Reynolds, L. Thorp, Edgar Brass,
Michael M. Ryan, Geo. Beck, John L. Guthrie, Edward Groves, M. Littleton, J.
Story, A. Vandervort.
Total, 86.

Yours &c.,
C. G. Van Derveer,
Chaplain 8th Iowa Infantry

To be continued.

Elaine Rathmann
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