The Post says
advices per the [Catawba] state that Gen. Hunter had issued a
proclamation freeing the slaves in his department. He was organizing a negro brigade, and had
detailed some officers to train the contrabands in the use of arms.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, May 16, 1862, p. 1
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