General E. Kirby Smith has issued an order to his rebel brigade declaring that any officer speaking contemptuously of President Davis shall be cashiered, and any private for the same offense court-martialed and punished. Probably the secesh soldiers are beginning to ‘say things.’ But are they not fighting for liberty?
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 1
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