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Subject: Vinton Eagle, July 4, 1861
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:27:32 EDT

The Vinton Eagle
Vinton, Benton Co., Iowa
July 4, 1861


GOOD FOR OUR IOWA BOYS.--The Iowa boys belonging to the First Regiment, many
of whom are printers, found, at Macon City, Missouri, a deserted printing
office, the editor of which had, upon the approach of our troops, fled to parts
unknown, and for one day appropriated the same to their own use and benefit. In
other words they issued a daily paper, entitled ‘Our Whole Union, or The
Missouri’s Register.’ Frank Wilke [Franc B. Wilkie], for a long time local
editor of the Dubuque Herald, occupied the chair made vacant by the retreating
editor, and published his salutatory and valedictory on the same page, in both of
which he said many spicy things, such only as Frank can say. In the words of
Henry Ward Beecher, ‘bully for the Iowa boys.”


Sue Trout Reisdorph

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