An order was issued
by the War Department cancelling the previous order giving the large bounties
to soldiers for re-enlisting, but it is not to go into effect until midnight of
the 5th inst. Re-enlisting is going on at a lively rate. Company E today
secured the necessary number entitling it to be a veteran company — the first
one in the regiment, Company K being the second. General McPherson delivered a
speech before the Iowa Brigade, expressing his desire that the entire
Seventeenth Army Corps might become a corps of veterans, and I think there is
no doubt but that it will.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 160
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