The first company organized in Rock Island seems to have had considerable trouble about its officers. Recently their Captain was cashiered, and a Lieutenant appointed to his place from another company, after they had been prevented from holding an election, while another company in the same regiment was permitted to choose its own officers. The Rock Island men are very indignant about it, and complain loudly of the treatment they have received.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 8, 1862, p. 1
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