NEW YORK, May 15. – The Post says advices per the Catawba stating that Gen. Hunter has issued a proclamation freeing the slaves in his Department. He was organizing a negro brigade, and had detailed some officers to train the contrabands in the use of arms.
Hon. Charles Jared Ingersoll died in Philadelphia yesterday in the 80th year of his age.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3
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