Arrangements with Railroads!

STATE OF IOWA, ADJUSTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE

DES MOINES, February 13th, 1862.

Arrangements have been made with the following named Railroads for the transportation of Iowa soldiers at the following named rates:

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD.

Wounded, sick, discharged and furloughed soldiers at two cents per mile.

ST. LOUIS, ALTON AND CHICAGO RAILROAD.

At same rates as Illinois Central Railroad.

CHICAGO AND ROCK ISLAND RAILROAD.

Same as Illinois Central Railroad.

GALENA AND CHICAGO UNION RAILROAD.

Same as Illinois Central Railroad.

KEOKUK, FT. DES MOINES AND MINNESOTA RAILROAD.

Furloughed and discharged soldiers at half far.

Soldiers wounded in battle, free.

BURLINGTON AND MISSOURI RIVER RAILROAD.

Sick and disabled soldiers at one cent per mile.

Wounded in battle, free.

All able bodied soldiers at two cents per mile.

CHICAGO, IOWA AND NEBRASKA RAILROAD.

All wounded in battle, either discharged or on furlough, free.

All soldiers discharged for disability, the cause of which occurred while in the service, and sick soldiers on furlough, one cent per mile.

All other soldiers two cents per mile.

CEDAR RAPIDS AND MISSORI RIVER RAILROAD.

Same rates as the C. I. & N. Railroad.

DUBUQUE AND SIOUX CITY RAILROAD.

Sick, wounded and disabled soldiers at one cent per mile.

All others at two cents per mile.

It is hoped that this department will soon be able to report further arrangements with other Railroads which have so generously made the above arrangements, and in order that soldiers may receive the benefits of the same, officers are requested, in granting furloughs or discharges, to note the cause of furlough or discharges at the bottom thereof, and sign the same, as the arrangements are made for the benefit of the soldiers.  The State has no pecuniary interest in the matter.  The soldiers of the classes referred to pay their own fare.

Soldiers should present their furloughs or discharges for the examination at the tickt office of Railroads, in order to procure tickets at the reduced rates.

N. B. BAKER,

Adjutant General of Iowa

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 27, 1862, p. 1