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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-CIVIL-WAR] Burlington Weekly Hawkeye, Jan 3, 1863
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:34:31 -0500


Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Jan 3, 1863


Married-Col. Alexander Chambers, of the 16th Iowa Infantry, was married to
Miss H. Fannie, daughter of Henry Winslow, Esq. of Mt. Pleasant, at that
place, on Christmas day.

SAW BUCK RANGERS- This is the name of a new organization who assemble every
night at the stirring call of the fife and drum and march forth in the
strength with the stern resolution to deal death and destruction to all
refractory wood piles. The rangers number about twelve, and present quite a
fine appearance at dress parade with their peculiar instruments of warfare,
consisting of saws, axes, saw-bucks, &c. They file away in solid column to
the residence of some lady whose husband is fighting the battles of his
country; and when the halt at last before a colossal wood pile, you hear, if
you listen closely, a few short jerks of the saw, a few blows of the axe,
and the place that knew it knows it nor more forever. Go it while you are
young, boys, long may you flourish green and vernal; my your last hours be
blest with the assurance that while your friends and countrymen are on the
tented field doing vigilant service in defense of a good cause, you are
engaged in ameliorating the condition of their dear loved ones at home,
fighting the tough knots and furnishing the material for many a winter
fire.--Maquoketa Excelsior.


We learn from a gentleman who arrived in this city from Anamosa, Jones
county, yesterday, that, on Tuesday night of last week, a man named Tucker,
belonging to theGray Beard regiment, came to his death in the following
singular manner. He had spent part of the day in Anamosa, indulging rather
too freely in strong drink, and as he was returning home, he seems to have
fallen backward into a ditch, where he was found dead in that position, the
next morning. There was but little water in the ditch-not sufficient to
cover his body-and it is supposed that he was chilled to death.--Muscatine
Journal.


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