Friday, October 15, 2010

We are told that General Jones . . .

. . . although making very earnest inquiries, has failed to learn the cause of his imprisonment at Fort Lafayette!  He has a hopeful son also deprived of his liberty, being confined at Camp Douglas, Chicago.  Has the General been able to learn why he is imprisoned by the ‘Lincoln despotism?’

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

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