A Remarkable And Disgraceful Fact

It is a fact disgraceful to State that two persons have been engaged in recruiting for the rebel army in the town of Iowaville, county of Van Buren and State of Iowa. They were suspected, watched and finally arrested and passed thru this city yesterday on their way to St. Louis. – Abundant evidence was found on them to prove clearly that their business was recruiting for the rebels. One of them had just posted a letter saying that they found many men of the right stripe there – that there were but few Abolitionists in that vicinity and he thought he could raise seventy recruits for Jeff. Davis army.

– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Friday, April 18, 1862 & the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Saturday April 19, 1862