Saturday, December 26, 2009

Washington News

WASHINGTON, April 21. – A message reached the Senate to-day from the President, touching the arrest of ex-Secretary Cameron at the insistence of Pierce Butler. The President avows Butler’s arrest to be his act done under his authority and avers that it was justified by State necessity.

The nomination of Col. Tuttle of the 2nd Iowa as a Brigadier General has been determined upon.

Gen. Rosecrans is in command of a corps, and he will soon be heard from.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 26, 1862, p. 4

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