Springfield Republican

CAPT. LINCOLN.—The fine milk-white charger, rode by this gallant officer at Buena Vista, is now here in charge of the 2d Kentucky Volunteers, who with a delicacy and sensibility worthy of the bright fame of this distinguished regiment, have made arrangements to send this favorite horse of the lamented deceased to his distinguished and patriotic father in Worcester. We are told that when Captain Lincoln fell, he was in the rear of the Kentucky Volunteers, of whose gallantry he had just expressed his desire to be a witness. After delivering an order to the Illinois Regiment, he wheeled his charger, and halting for a moment, cried out to the 2d Kentuckians, "I must see how these Kentucky boys fight." The words had scarcely escaped his lips, when he fell from his horse, pierced by half a dozen bullets. His horse was uninjured, and is as noble a charger as ever "snuffed the battle." He was purchased at the sale of Capt. Lincoln's effects, by that heroic woman, whose sobriquet, "Great Western," is so familiar to our readers, and who, with characteristic liberality and magnanimity, readily yielded him to the solicitation of the Kentuckians, who desired to have him sent to Gov. Lincoln.