There are now 160 recruits at Camp McClellan, and about twenty more are expected for the 18th regiment. – These will complete the enlistments in this state for the present. When they go Camp McClellan will be deserted and perhaps finally abandoned, as it is doubtful if another regiment will be organized during the war.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 10, 1862, p. 1
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