NEW YORK, May 19. – The North Carolinian states that Gov. Clarke has refused to furnish any more troops to Jeff. Davis and has recalled all North Carolina soldiers now in the rebel army.
North Carolina has held a convention of its citizens and pronounced against giving further aid to the rebellion, thus virtually returning to the Union.
In reply to the demand of Jeff Davis for additional troops and means of transportation for his army and through the Colonial States, Governor Clarke said that Davis had received all the aid from North Carolina that he could expect and that hereafter no more troops would be permitted to leave the State, and has ordered all North Carolina troops home.
Governor Clarke also informed the rebels that they could use the railroad in retreating homewards and that they would run their own risk of being intercepted by a Union force at any point of the state.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 4
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