This is election day
for the soldiers of Iowa, they having been given the right to vote while in the
army. No one is permitted to electioneer for his favorite candidate and those
who persisted in doing so were arrested and put in the guardhouse. General Tuttle,
the commander of a division, is from Iowa and is the candidate for governor of
the State on the Democratic ticket, against Colonel Stone, formerly of the
Twenty-second Iowa Regiment, who is the Republican candidate for governor.1
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1 Stone was elected, even without the soldier
vote, by a large majority. Mr. Downing has the distinction of having cast his
first vote while in the service. — Ed.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 147
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