Such is the purport of an order from the General Government, and all the recruiting stations here about are closed, and the men who have left the army to engage in that business have to return to their regiments. An immense expense is thus saved to our government, while it is a premonition that the war will soon be brought to a close; at least that is the opinion of the powers that be. The government has even refused to accept the 17th regiment, now full; but the Governor has telegraphed that it must be accepted, and the Legislature has adopted a resolution requesting the War Department to accept it, and so we presume it will be done.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 7, 1862, p. 1
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