The latest accounts shows that there are now 168 Brigadier
Generals, and that 26 in addition await senatorial action. A favorable report has been made on the
recommendation of Dan. E. Sickles, and there seems no doubt that he will soon
be confirmed. The bill proposing to
limit the number of Brigadier Generals to 200, and Major Generals to 26, will
in all probability become a law.
Thus far, or within two days applications have been filed
for compensation for 42 of the slaves manumitted in the District of Columbia,
under the emancipation act.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, May 5, 1862, p. 1
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