The Richmond papers say that every train from Manassas is crowded with soldiers who are on their return home to visit their friends – but who have promised to come back and re-enlist. Wonder how much, under the circumstances, this promise is worth? The succession of defeats which the rebel cause is encountering at every point must be a lively inducement to return. Once at home they will fancy, come to the conclusion that patriotism imperatively requires them to stay where they are, so as to help drive away the “Hessian invaders” when they go that way. Besides, if they spend a few weeks at their firesides, it will probably prove so difficult for them to find their old comrades and commanders, unless they seek them among the prisoners in the Union camps, that they will scarcely attempt so desperate an undertaking. – N. Y. Herald.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 2
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