Iowa Second Regiment

Red tapeism [sic] is fairly cast in the shade by the bit of “brief authority” exercised by a couple of officials at St. Louis, in regard to the Second Iowa regiment. That a whole regiment should be disgraced on the bare suspicion that one or more of their number had stolen a few stuffed birds, when it was more than likely the work of boys, is simply absurd. We hope, if the Governor notices the matter at all, it will be to reprimand Messrs. Hamilton and Price for the extreme measures they pursued.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 12, 1862, p. 1