THE 16TH REGIMENT WANTS TO MARCH! - The 16th regiment in camp here only needs one or two companies more to be filled. Officers and men are aroused by the great news of the last week, and are eager to march. As this regiment is nearly complete and fully equipped, all but arms, which are daily expected, and will undoubtedly be ordered to march in a short time, there should be hundreds of good men eager to fight ready to join the 16th. All arriving within the next two weeks can be taken into the regiment, as we have been informed. So come along, boys, and join in the grand march South. This is about the last chance to ‘go in,’ as the Union hosts are now sweeping everything before them. If the war shall close in two months, recruits will get their one hundred dollars bounty just the same.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, February 18, 1862, p. 1
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