24 Feb 1862
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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1862
Page
1
Ad rates for The Rolla Express are listed as one dollar fifty cents per year in advance. The text mentions five copies to one address and various yearly advertisement terms. The legibility is poor with typos and garbled phrases.
A long excerpt recalls a reunion dinner for a Presa fraternity correspondent returning from St. Louis with General and others in attendance. Verse readings and toasts mix with remarks on Halleck Price prisoner exchanges, military actions at Fort Donelson, and casualty reports. Reports from Cairo and Fort Donelson describe heavy losses, captures, and bombardment details.
The New York Times reports Geo R G Jones of Dubuque Iowa son of Hon George W Jones former minister to Bogota and now prisoner at Fort Lafayette. He joined the Confederacy as war broke out while others from Dubuque stayed loyal. Indignation rose among his townsmen who captured him but wiser counsels prevailed and he remains in custody.
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