4 Oc we ware on dress perade there ware some Resolutions
gotten up by the field Officers of the Iowa Reg at this place read & a vote
taken on them, every commissioned officer voted for them & all the men of
Our Reg except about ten & over half of them was in our Co Seargt A I
Boston Corp's Lowery & Willis Higgenbothan Privates John R & William C
Hodge, they are brothers. Phillips the Iowa Regts are all to vote on them &
they are to be sent to Iowa papers to be published.13 Also an order
by Genl Gorman against gambling by Officers or men & also an order by Genl Fisk
for us to hold ourselves in rediness to march aboard the packets in short
notice
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13 For text of these resolutions, see Burlington Hawkeye, March 2, 1863, p. 2, col. 5. (In the newspaper collection of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa.)
SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 110
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