Cyrus Hall McCormick born, 1809
February Sixteenth
A chicken that had done duty at a previous repast was set before the Rev. Scervant Jones, the first Baptist preacher of Williamsburg, Virginia, at the tavern of a Mr. Howl. Upon which the Reverend gentleman pronounced the following blessing:
“Good Lord of love
Look down from above,
And bless the ’Owl
Who ate this fowl
And left these bones
For Scervant Jones.”
Fort Donelson surrenders, 1862
February Seventeenth
A NORTHERN VIEW
* * * It was the most monstrous barbarity of the barbarous march. There is no reason to think that General Sherman knew anything of the purpose to burn the city, which had been freely talked about among the soldiers through the afternoon. But there is reason to think that he knew well enough who did it, that he never rebuked it, and made no effort to punish it.
Whitelaw Reid
(Ohio)