The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-06-07

that this Convention should be well attended
and every part of the State represented to the
end that the best men may be nominated, and
that as the coming important election Iowa may
spsak. With NJ uncertain voice, her approval Of
the Administration Of Abraham Lincoln and her
condemnation of the reasonable party organisa-
tion nov attempted to be mustered for the can.
vsss by men Of known secession proclivities-
TAree anenberr of 90. @, Let Iovya Cav.
Airy, narAereA An miso0uri.
The sad news of the death Of three members
Of 90. G, let lows Cavalry, murdered BY suer.
riIlss in st. Clair county, Miss uri, was received
here yesterday, casting shadow orer our peo.
pie. The news came in . private letter from
WA. Clark, ofthe same company. and the only
one Of the foraging party who escaped uphurt.
Hsrbsch and Cameron were from Burlington.
young men Of much promise, twenty-one or
two years Of age. Higgins. about the same age,
ws think was from the northern part Of the
county. stoddard, also about the same age, is
from Weet Point, Lee county. He is wounded
1 in the arm and will probably recover. Young
u
Der Of the Let Iowa--is now 10 the llth Regu-
lars With Gen. Mcclellan. His father is Captain
Of Let Iowa Battery, nov with General Curtis in
Arkansas. Below We print Clark's letter. writ.
ten to bis brother-in-law, Nr. Fullerton. AL.
though not Intended for print we see no impro-
pristy In publishing it:
OcgoLA, 81. Clair Co., NO., Nay 20.
Bso. Nrce-It becomes my duty to notify
through you the friends of some of the wounded
and dead Of our Company that were ahot yes
nrday while ont forsging. VIM. g. Harbach,
dead; n. Higgins, dead; Josiah Cameron and
A. Stoddard wounded. Ny horse was shot, end
two or three balls penetrated my cothe., and
., fine comb saved me. had a comb in nv
watch pocket, the ball struck It, and glanced Of
and just grased the skin.
will give you the particulars We started
out in the morning after forage. IL miles. We
got out all right. loaded the wagons and started
back, and we're eight miles from camp, when We
stopped at a creek TO water our horses. Har.
bach and Cameron we're sitting on the wagon;
Higgins, stoddard and myself were setting on
our horses by the side Of them, talking, when
some twenty Jaybawkers, concealed In the
brush, fred into u.s. killing Harbach, wounding
Cameron, Higgins, Stoddsrd, and, I supposed
that was wounded, but am happy to say that
/ Was not hurt. Ny horse was shot from his
head back to his tail. Several sh ,ts went tbro
my coat, pants and hat. run my horse after
he was shot some two miles before he fell; I
then Jumped over into a field where there vas
man piowing ! jerked the harness of of the
horse and jumped on him bare back aud rode
about four or five miles as hard as be could
run, when overlook another forsging party
sent two OF the men to camp for help. 1t was
but little while before our men could be seen
on full gallop coming to our assistance. 4
vent back with them. We found Hsrbach
dead; cameron wounded in the leg, it has since
been amputsted above the knee; Higgins wound.
cd, has since died; stoddard wounded in the
arm.
intended to start with the body Of Hsrbach
home this evening, but could not get ice, and
therefore could not start, but will bury here tor
the present. The boys propose to send to St.
Louis for a metallic coffin. will then fetch the
body home.
We take no more prisoners. We are going
to shoot every man that We catch in the brush.
P. S.-Since wrote the above Josiah Cam.
eron has died. We will be obliged to bury them
here for the present, as the weather is 90 warm
and there 10 no ice here.