The assessors this year are required, in addition to their usual duties, to make out a list of all persons subject to military duty. This included all between 18 and 45. We believe the maim and the halt, and the short-legged, and the squint eyed, and the truss-wearers are not excepted from this list, so those liable needn’t go limping about, nor making horrid faces like Job Trotter in Pickwick, whenever the assessors comes in sight. He doesn’t take cognizance of any such failings. So face the music, militia-men.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, February 15, 1862, p. 1
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, February 15, 1862, p. 1
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