The State Register of Friday last has the following on this subject:
“Adjutant General Baker has kindly furnished us with some explanatory light on that dispatch published yesterday morning which reports Iowa deficient 13,000 men. The facts are as follows: Under the call for 500,000 men, the state has more than filled its quota. The re-enlisted regiments have not all made their returns. Under the last call for 200,000 men the quota of Iowa is 6,439. On this quota there is already a credit of 1,000 men, leaving 5,439 to be made up by recruits and re-enlistments. Iowa has never yet failed to meet the requisitions of the Government. The last call for 200,000 men will meet with a hearty and patriotic response. To say, therefore, that we are deficient 13,000 men, or even one man is an infamous slander on the State.”
– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, April 9, 1864
“Adjutant General Baker has kindly furnished us with some explanatory light on that dispatch published yesterday morning which reports Iowa deficient 13,000 men. The facts are as follows: Under the call for 500,000 men, the state has more than filled its quota. The re-enlisted regiments have not all made their returns. Under the last call for 200,000 men the quota of Iowa is 6,439. On this quota there is already a credit of 1,000 men, leaving 5,439 to be made up by recruits and re-enlistments. Iowa has never yet failed to meet the requisitions of the Government. The last call for 200,000 men will meet with a hearty and patriotic response. To say, therefore, that we are deficient 13,000 men, or even one man is an infamous slander on the State.”
– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, April 9, 1864
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