The Great Jubilee

It being a part of our business to notice events of a public character we trust we shall be pardoned if we have a word to say concerning the proceedings in this place Saturday last, when a welcome was extended by the leaders of the Democratic party of this County, to Jim Naylor, who with others was arrested last summer for disloyalty, and boarded with Uncle Sam till lately, when, as our special correspondent informs us, Uncle Sam becoming tired of him, analyzed his character and having come to the conclusion that he did not know enough to do much damage, let him go at large again.  We will not say that his arrest was uncalled for, but there are those who think that he belongs to that class of persons whose insignificance not [infrequently] shields them from the punishment their misconduct merits.

He pretends to be loyal, and it is possible he does not desire the overthrow of the Government, but he certainly talks as no loyal man of good sense would talk.  He has a great passion for becoming a public speaker, and evidently mistakes the term notoriety (taken in its ill sense) for celebrity.  He reminds us of the man who tried to assassinate one of the crowned heads of Europe, who was loved by all his subjects.  When asked why he tried to kill the King, he replied that he wished his name to go into history, and he knew of no other way to accomplish this object.  We have believed from the first that he desired to be arrested, as such an event would bring him into public notice.  His self-esteem looms up like a donkey’s ears, and when it comes in contact with his patriotism, (if he has any) the latter comes out of the little end of the horn.  But to the reception.

Business prevented us from being present on the occasion, and we have had the misfortune to lo[o]se some notes given to us by a gentleman who was there, so we shall not go into particulars, but simply notice a few items, the authority for which is not confined to Republicans, or they might be pronounced abolition lies.

Mr. James Tompson was made president of the meeting, after which Mr. Parrot made an introductory speech, in which he labored to show that they were Lawfully assembled, and that the Constitution of the United States as well as that of the State of Iowa gave them the privalige [sic] of expressing their sentiments.

Now we wish to know the object of all this.  Did Mr. Parrot suppose that he was to be interrupted for the expression of loyal sentiments?  Not a bit of it.  They intended to utter sentiments insulting to the Union people of this county, and they did it, as those who were present well know.

In conclusion, Mr. Parrot introduced the “injured” Naylor, who, amid the shouts of his sympathizers, proceeded to lay bare his injuries to the eager ears of his over true and loving brethren; and the recital was enough to bring fears of pity from a gate post.

He has been arrested, put in prison, had to lie on the floor, was called a Rebel, a traitor, a tory, a butternut, and many other names, which will in all probability injure his political health, for years to come, if not for life.  Yet for all this his spirit was still unbroken, he had said that the President and a part of the Cabinet were guilty of the crime of perjury and he did not hesitate to repeat it on that occasion.  Then came cries of “Good! Good! – That’s so.”

Now we would like to know what these expressions mean when defined by the Democratic dictionary.  We often heard just such expression in Missouri at the commencement of this war; and most of those who used them, as well as those who applauded them, are today either in the Rebel army or in the devil’s army, though they were leaders or good members of the Democratic party at that time.

Another thing don’t look exactly right to loyal men, and that is the cheering of the Butternuts.  We are told by both Republicans and Democrats that this was done, and that such men as Scovill and Parrot, leaders of the Democratic party in this county, threw up their hats as though their patriotic hearts would burst with joy at the mention of the name.

Is this Democracy?  And do they propose to put down this rebellion by cursing the Administration and cheering the Butternuts?  And will the democrat whose son is on the battle field applaud the hand that sends the bullet and bayonet through that son’s heart?  Will you stoop to degradation on which the dog that licks the foot that kicks him, might look down with contempt?  Is the tie that binds you to party stronger than your affection for him who is your own flesh and blood – your own son?  Has consistency ceased to be a word in your language that you are to know it no more?  Has manhood fled from our land that we dare not break the bands that bind us to party, the name of which, though once honored, is now used as a screen to hide the treachery of thousands of our country’s foe, who are among us?  Will you withhold your applause and congratulations from the bleeding soldier who comes home to your door, maimed for life, to heap them upon BUTTERNUTS, and men whose [illegible] activities banished them for a time [missing text].  Why have not the soldiers [missing text] home from the army from [missing text] looking as though the thread [missing text] out to break – why have not they [missing text] recipients of such favors as are now heaped on these fellows?  Oh, it is a very slight thing to be crippled for life, or have your constitution broken by exposure night and day to the winter’s storms and summer’s heat upon the battlefields by long marches, often destitute of food, water and sufficient clothing.  It looks to us as though these were the fit subjects for the patriots applause, and we thank God that there are a few democrats who take the same view of matters, a few who cannot be taken by these gudgeon-fishers; a few who have witnessed the wool pulling operation too often to heed Mr. Scovill’s charge that the Republican party is the Disunion Party.  What a charge!  We wonder if there was one in all his crowd of loving friends that was soft enough to believe him.

We must confess that it was rather the weakest point we ever knew that gentleman to try to make.  It is doubtless of his strategy.  We [suppose] he had the same object in view, as did the thief who, when he was being pursued, pointed to another man and cried “Thief – Thief!”

This latter gentleman having relieved his stomach of about the usual amount of vituperation, with the usual amount of cheering at this or denunciation of the Administration and Republicans, the meeting, which was a disgrace to our country, broke up, many of them doubtless disappointed at not having been interrupted by the Republicans.

“Coming events cast their shadows before.”  A cloud of indignation is assuming proportions, and ere long will find public expression.

– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, January 3, 1863.  Note, there was a tear in the newspaper resulting in several instances of missing text.

Gen. Burnside's Railroad "Monitor"

When the Eastern Queen, at New York from Newbern, sailed, a “Railroad Monitor,” understood to have been designed by General Burnside, was in process of construction at Newbern.  Carpenters were preparing a huge framework, to be placed over a locomotive engine and to be covered with railroad iron from the top to the track.  The car is to be made capable of carrying two guns, one at either end, and will be used on the railroad which runs from Newbern to Beaufort, and also on the railroad from Newbern to Bachelor’s Creek, in the direction of Kingston and Goldsboro.  The bridge over the Trent river near Beaufort and over Bachelor’s Creek, which were burned by the retreating rebels, are nearly finished again; and the new Monitor, it is believed will do excellent service in guarding the country through which the railroads pass.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

The following are the deaths of Iowa soldiers . . .

. . . in Hospitals and camps in the vicinity of St. Louis, for the week ending May 10^th:

Lewis Stah, co. K, 16^th,

W. H. Johnson, co. K, 17^th;

Theo Campbell, co. F, 11^th;

Charles White, co. K, 17^th,

Robert A. Pennett, co. D, 2d;

Benjamin J. Baker, co. K, 14^th;

G. W. Hess, co. F, 6^th;

Gotleib Wiltlaff, co. K, 16^th;

W. T. Clark, ----, 4^th,

John Keppel, co. A, 2d;

E. A. Ward, co. H, 12^th;

Josh. B. Carraway, co. B, 12^th;

Geo. B. Ferguson, co. D, 5^th;

Thos. Sharpe, co. I, 4^th.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

The Rev. Dr. Quintard . . .

. . . Chaplain of the First Tennessee regiment, will preach in the Episcopal church on Sunday morning next.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Gen. Boyle has issued an order . . .

. . . declaring that no person hostile in opinion to the United States Government, and desiring its overthrow, will be allowed to stand for office in Kentucky.  The attempt of such a person to stand for office “will be regarded as in itself sufficient evidence of its treasonable intent to warrant his arrest.”

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

After news of the victory at Richmond . . .

. . . was received in Memphis, Confederate money, which was always passed, despite Grant’s ukase to the contrary, rapidly brought from fifty to sixty cents in specie, and over seventy in Tennessee currency – more than it brings anywhere in the Mississippi valley.  It has since been in great demand, and so tenacious are holders of it that it is gradually becoming quite scarce.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

James R. Russell

5^th Corporal, Co. I, 6^th Iowa Infantry

Died June 17, 1862 at La Grange, Tennessee

Keokuk National Cemetery

Keokuk, Iowa

A Good Man Has Fallen

It is with sorrow we announce the death of Rev. John S. Whittlesey, Chaplain of the 11^th Iowa Regiment.  He returned to his home in Durant a few weeks since, sick with typhoid fever and pneumonia, contracted by his exertions to aid the wounded soldiers at the battle of Pittsburg, while he himself was in feeble health.  He was a pure hearted Christian, and has fallen a martyr at his post, while faithfully discharging his duty.  Mr. Whittlesey, by his faithful correspondence, had made himself acquainted with all the readers of the Gazette, who, with us, will regret that his pen is stilled forever. – {Davenport Gazette

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Quincy, Ill., May 13, 1862

C. DUNHAM: – The steamer Champion arrived yesterday with one hundred and ninety-three sick soldiers, among them the following from Iowa, all of the 15^th Regiment:

Sam. Owens, Co. K, could not find him.

Stephen Overton, Co. G, Knoxville, Marion county.

D. T. Figgins, Co. I, Charleston, Lee county.

John Smith, Co. E, Flint River township Des Moines county.

Leroy Conner, Co. B, Des Moines, Polk Co.

Thos. Baughfman, Co. G, Knoxville, Marion county.

Andrew Warshine, Co. E, Ft. Madison, Lee count[y].

F. M. Stretch, reported before is now dead.

Respectfully,

B. B. JOHNSON

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

General Orders, No. 3.

HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,

Saint Louis, November 20, 1861.

1. It has been represented that important information respecting the numbers and condition of our forces is conveyed to the enemy by means of fugitive slaves who are admitted within our lines. In order to remedy this evil it is directed that no such person be hereafter permitted to enter the lines of any camp or of any forces on the march and that any now within such lines be immediately excluded therefrom.

2. The general commanding wishes to impress upon all officers in command of posts and troops in the field the importance of preventing unauthorized persons of every description from entering and leaving our lines and of observing the greatest precaution in the employment of agents and clerks in confidential positions.

By order of Major-General Halleck:

WILLIAM McMICHAEL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SOURCE: The War Of The Rebellion: A Compilation Of The Official Records Of The Union And Confederate Armies, Series II, Volume I, p. 778



Realizing The Fact

The New York Tribune says: “It is impossible to read the accounts of the recent daring and successful raids in the very heart of both Tennessee and Kentucky, directly in the rear of the main body of Gen. Halleck’s army, and under the full operation of Order No. 3, without realizing that the mass of the whites in the regions thus overrun are either adverse to the Union cause, or paralyzed by indifference or cowardice.”

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

More Deserters

A gentleman from Cumberland Mountain yesterday brought in three Yankee prisoners who had delivered themselves up to him, and requested themselves to be delivered to the military authorities.  They are from a Kentucky regiment, and represent that there are hundreds of their comrades who will desert on the first opportunity, and say that the whole Yankee army is at present in a very demoralized condition sick and tired of the war.  Two of them had on citizens’ clothes, the other was in uniform, but they all told the gentleman who and what they were.  On being asked where they got citizens’ clothes, they replied from two discharged soldiers, which goes to show that the discharged Yankee soldiers are not only goad to get out of the service, but are disposed to assist anyone else who desire to leave, no matter if it is as deserters.  They also state that bitter feeling exists between the troops of Kentucky and those of the abolition States, growing out of the emancipation and abolition policy of the Yankee government.  So strong is this feeling growing that it is with difficulty the Kentuckians and the abolition troops are kept from engaging in fights daily.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Dr. C. T. Quintard

Dr. C. T. Quintard was our chaplain for the First Tennessee Regiment during the whole war, and he stuck to us from the beginning even unto the end. During week days he ministered to us physically, and on Sundays spiritually. He was one of the purest and best men I ever knew. He would march and carry his knapsack every day the same as any soldier. He had one text he preached from which I remember now. It was "the flying scroll." He said there was a flying scroll continually passing over our heads, which was like the reflections in a looking-glass, and all of our deeds, both good and bad, were written upon it. He was a good doctor of medicine, as well as a good doctor of divinity, and above either of these, he was a good man per se. Every old soldier of the First Tennessee Regiment will remember Dr. C. T. Quintard with the kindest and most sincere emotions of love and respect. He would go off into the country and get up for our regiment clothing and provisions, and wrote a little prayer and song book, which he had published, and gave it to the soldiers. I learned that little prayer and song book off by heart, and have a copy of it in my possession yet, which I would not part with for any consideration. Dr. Quintard's nature was one of love. He loved the soldiers, and the soldiers loved him, and deep down in his heart of hearts was a deep and lasting love for Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the world, implanted there by God the Father Himself.

Sam R. Watkins, "Co. Aytch": Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment, Second Edition, 1900, p. 112-3

Sick And Wounded At Cincinnati

The Steamer Silver Moon arrived at Cincinnati on Saturday, with a number of Sick and wounded soldiers from Pittsburg Landing, Hamburgh and Savannah.  The following is a list of those of Iowa.

15^th Iowa – A. J. Danson, Co. C.

16^th Iowa – Charles Bunce, Co. C.

2d Iowa Cavalry – Adjutant’s Orderly, Ludwig Cabell; N. H. E. Morris, Co. K, John A. Hull, Co. C, Benj. F. Snyder, Co. A, Jonathan D. Havens Co. B.

Bissell’s Engineers – James Smith.

The following wounded soldiers arrived at Cincinnati on Friday Last, on the Steamer Glendale, from Pittsburgh Landing.

5^th Iowa – Serfee Africannis

2d Iowa – Wm. Reed, Co. K; A. L. Saum, Co. K; Jo Ault, Co. H.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Rev. Dr. Quintard

We had the pleasure of meeting this estimable gentleman in our city yesterday.  We understand that he has resigned his position on the staff of Gen. Loring, now in Virginia, and returned to Tennessee for the purpose of resuming his former relation to the 1^st regiment of Tennessee volunteers.  His return will be the occasion of general rejoicing among our gallant Tennessee troops.  No man has been more self-sacrificing in his efforts to be useful, and no one is more universally beloved in this portion of the army with which he has been connected.  The services of such an man are invaluable to the country.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Deaths at Camp Dennison

Chris Angeno [sic], Co. F, 13^th Iowa, gunshot wound in leg, admitted April 18^th, died May 2.

D. A. Willard, Co. A, 8^th Iowa, typhoid fever, admitted May 2d, died May 5th.

J. W. Robinson, Co. F, 2d Iowa, typhoid fever, admitted May 2d, died May 5^th.

Stowell G. Dean, Co. C, 13^th Iowa, typhoid fever, admitted April 18^th, died May 6^th.

Orland M. Nichols, Co. G, 3d Iowa, typhoid fever, admitted April 18^th, died April 18^th.

Enos Walker, Co. E, 13^th Iowa, intermittent fever, admitted April 17^th, died April 26^th.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Malvern Hill Re-occupied By The Federals

The special correspondent of the Atlanta Intelligencer, telegraphs that paper from Richmond that the Federals had succeeded in wresting Malvern Hill from the Confederates owing to the weakness of our pickets at that point.  This gives the enemy command of the James river for ten miles[s] above their late position.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Exchanged Confederate Prisoners in Richmond

A special dispatch from Richmond to the Atlanta Intellegencer states that Gens. Buckner, Tilgman, Mackall and Pettygrew have arrived in Richmond, together with several other officers of lower grade.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

Aldehoff's Institute

The third scholastic year of this admirably conceived and well conducted school commences on the second Monday in next moth.  The principal, Mr. H. W. Von Aldehoff, is widely known as one of the first teachers in the South, his success heretofore being the best test of his merit.  The fact that the school has successfully maintained itself in the general wreck of similar institutions caused by the war, is additional evidence of it[s] excellence.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

We see in the Cleveland Banner of the 7th . . .

. . . that a battle was reported as going on between Gen. Stephenson’s brigade and about 4,000 Federals on Clinch river, since which we have learned, from a reliable source, a confirmation of the rumor, and that it was quite an important affair, and, so far as heard from, decidedly in our favor.  We will await further particulars of this flank movement of Gen. Stephenson before giving all that is current on the street.  The Mobile papers have telegrams in relation to it, but we cannot understand how they are permitted to receive war intelligence from this section of Tennessee before either the Knoxville or Chattanooga papers.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 2

List of Wounded of the 2d Iowa Cavalry at the Engagement of Gen. Pope’s Division, near Corinth, nearly all on the Steamer D. A. January

Name	Company	Condition	County
W H Butts	F	thigh	Wayne
John S Bush	B	breast & should’r	Marshall
G T Height	G	arm and side	Cedar
L J Parkers	F	breast	Dallas
A Westick	B	hip	Morgan
Derwin Downs	K	leg	Des Moines
Anderson Henderly	G	back	Muscatine
Capt. Egbert	C	thigh	Scott
J B Armstrong		do	do
Wm Gordon		foot amputated	Fulton
L Waterman		hip	Muscatine
Capt. Lundy		head	do
James Taylor		shoulder	Scott
James Slaughter		hand and leg	Des Moines
E E Biggs		sick of dropsy	Webster City

8 killed, 40 wounded, 3 missing.  I cannot get their names.

The report about the prisoners being taken I think false.  I learn there were no other Iowa troops in the engagement.

Yours, &c.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

From Gen. Halleck’s Army

PITTSBURGH LANDING, May 11^th, 1862.

FRIEND DUNHAM – Having an opportunity to send a letter by private hands to Cairo, and a few minutes to write, I send you a few lines which may be of some interest.

The whole army was drawn up in line of battle this [morning], but at this hour (2 P. M.) no attack had been made, though there has been some severe skirmishing.  Friday Gen. Pope, who is on the extreme left, advanced to within two miles of Corinth and was driven back by a superior force, some two miles with severe loss on both sides.  The 2d Iowa Cavalry, it is said, led the advance, and I have it from a reliable source that 400 of them were taken prisoners.  Further particulars as regards this Division it is impossible for me to obtain.

This morning we were awakened by the booming of heavy guns on the right, the vicinity of Sherman’s Division, but they soon ceased and at this time everything is quiet.

I have visited within the last few days nearly all of our regiments, and find them in tolerable good health and spirits, except the 15^th and 16^th who are suffering considerably with the “Tennessee Quickstep.”  The 17^th arrived a day or two since and was sent forward to join Pope.

The boat is ready to start and I have no time to write more.

Yours,

P. S. – Dr. W. W. Nassau has been promoted to the office of Brigade Surgeon, and will pass through Burlington in a few days, on the way to join his Brigade in New Mexico.  He would have left here sooner, but has been waiting to render assistance in the coming battle.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

The Washington dispatches say . . .

. . . the return of the President and Secretary of War from Fortress Monroe is not now expected until the operations on James river are completed.  The visit of the President is understood to have been for the purpose of directing in person, as Commander-in-chief, the co-operation of the Navy with the execution of the plans of Gen. McClellan.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Some of the secesh in Newbern, N. C. . . .

. . . have become so insolent from the forbearance of the government officers that Gen. Burnside has found it necessary to be more stringent and has issued this order:

“Whoever, after the issue of this order, shall, within the limits to which the Union arms may extend in this department, utter one word against the government of the United States, will be at once arrested and closely confined.  It must be distinctly understood that this department is under martial law, and treason expressed or implied will meet with speedy punishment.”

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

E. P. Christy, of the negro minstrels . . .

. . . attempted to commit suicide at his residence in New York, last week, by jumping from an upper window of his residence.  He was badly hurt, but still living at last accounts.  Christy has made a fortune of $200,000 by the “Minstrels,” and probably attempted suicide while laboring under an attack of delirium tremens.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

The Government is now . . .

. . . replenishing its stock of horses, repairing the waste of the winter.  Purchases are to be made in droves of from 100 to 1,000, at prices ranging from $60 to $110.  Five hundred have been shipped from Chicago, and over 1,000 from Wheeling within the past few weeks.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

There are . . .

. . . 7,000 sick soldiers in St. Louis Hospitals.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

The London Times is . . .

. . . very urgent to have a volunteer force of 100,000 men enrolled in Canada because “Federal America is in a conquering mood,” and says that “Canada will have to choose whether she will be a rival or slave.”  The times will have plenty of material for painc articles when it gets the present news from this side.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

There is no misunderstanding recent movements in this State.

The attempt to resurrect the Democratic party is made by Geo. W. [J]ones, A. C. Dodge, Chas. Mason, Dennis Mahony, Barnhart Henn and others of the same class and stripe and for the benefit of the above named parties.  There is not a single live Democrat in it – not one.  There is not a single Democrat in it who has given his active support to the war for the Union.  The above parties are acting through lesser politicians just as completely played out as their principals – men who would never have voted a dollar or recruited a company for the war, but would, on the contrary, have sent a commission to Missouri to form a treaty of amity with the traitor Claib Jackson and his rebel horde and then declared for neutrality.  These parties seek power for the avowed purpose of making peace with Southern traitors and saving these same traitors from the consequences of their acts.  No such party can be organized in Iowa with the remotest chance of accomplishing anything save the lasting infamy of those engaged in it.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Surprise and Capture of a Rebel Camp

CUMBERLAND, Md., Feb. 15.

Gen. Lander made a forced march Thursday night, surprising and breaking up a rebel camp at Bloomer Gap, Killing 13, capturing 17 commissioned officers, and 45 privates, and loosing but 2 men and 6 horses.  Lander led the charge in person, at the head of the 1^st Va. Cavalry.

This opens the Baltimore and Ohio RR. to Hancock again.

Gen. Lander, having cleared his department of the enemy renews his request to be relieved from his command on account of ill health.

A portion of Lander’s command under Col. Deming, has occupied Morefield and captured 225 beef cattle.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 17, 1862, p. 1

In A Nice Fix

In the breaking out of the present difficulties a good many East Tennesseans, with treason in their hearts, left and went over to the bosom of King Abraham, thinking, no doubt that they would return to their houses in a very short time with a sufficient army to protect them in their treason.  Sixteen months have gone by, and these poor deluded fools are no nearer that object they set out to accomplish than they were the day they started.  They cannot get back to their homes, and never will.  If the war was ended, and arrangements made for their return they could not live here.  They would be looked upon and treated as tories – loathed and despised – forsaken even by the cowardly wretches who persuaded them to leave their homes and dear ones for a situation in the Federal army.  Those of them that have left property behind have forfeited it to their government, and their families will be bereft of it.  Who is responsible for this state of things?  Such men as Andy Johnson, Horace Maynard, Bill Brownlow, and the smaller lights of toryism, who were suffered to run over the country and preach treason to the people.  In this county such pettifoggers as Mitch Edwards and Dr. Brown were applauded for their treachery, while men who were older and wiser were scoffed and hooted at for their loyalty.  These vile miscreants are no receiving their just reward at the hands of an indignant people.  There never was a more just retribution visited upon a corrupt set of men.  They sowed the storm – let them receive the fury of the whirlwind.  They deserve it.  They have no home, and are entitled to none in the Southern Confederacy.  They deserted her in infancy.  When she needed help the cowardly scoundrels shrank from the task and went over to the enemy – in her manhood she will never receive to her bosom these arch traitors.  East Tennessee is and will be a part of her dominion, the opinion of the Lincolnites to the contrary notwithstanding. – {Cleveland Banner.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 1

The Washington Republican says . . .

. . . Hon. Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior, has authorized Mr. Newton, Superintendent of the Agricultural Division, to use the ground enclosed along Ninth street, in front of the Patent Office building, in experimenting on the cultivation of cotton.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

The Dog Law is creating . . .

. . . quite an excitement in many parts of the State.  People are excited and some of them promise to resist the law.  We have no doubt that a great deal of profanity and an infinite amount of talk will be the result of this attempt to intervene in the domestic affairs of the owners of this sort of worthless property.  Perhaps the next election will turn on the dog question.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Frank B. Johnson . . .

. . . of the Illinois 57^th Regiment, died in this city yesterday.  Mr. Johnson was a resident of Burlington.  His parents live here.  He was a member of Capt. Abercrombie’s company of the glorious Iowa First, and fought at Wilson’s Creek.  Enlisting again in the Lancers, when that Regiment was disbanded he enlisted in the Illinois 57^th, and while fighting in that Regiment at Pittsburg Landing he lost his foot, which was shattered by a ball.  But his death did not result from his wound.  It was caused by exposure which brought on disease of the lungs.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Obituary

Died in Fairfield, Iowa, on Monday, 12^th inst., at 1 o’clock p.m., at the residence of his brother-in-law, Mr. James Fegan, Theodore F. Boggs, member of Company E, 2^nd Regiment Iowa Infantry, aged 23 years.

Mr. Boggs was for several years a resident of Burlington, and by occupation an Engineer.  In August 1860, he came to Fairfield and was subsequently employed as Engineer at Reed’s Mill, where he remained until the breaking out of the rebellion.  When in April last, the President of the United States issued his call for 75,000 volunteers, Mr. Boggs quit his peaceful occupation and enlisted in the service of his country.  He was present at the battle of Fort Donelson and engaged in the action at Pittsburgh Landing, at which place he received a severe wound, which was the cause of his death.  He was a good soldier and a true patriot, and his many excellent social qualities endeared him to his companions in arms.  He has given his live to his country.  W. S. M.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

There is no question but the country is . . .

. . . sick and tired of the agitation upon the Slavery question.  But the country, before it condemns, will do well to determine who are guilty.  There is one thing which is very apparent to us, viz. that the parties who have made the most noise, are those who have resisted moderate and Constitutional measures in Congress.  The majorities in both Houses, have introduced no revolutionary measures.  On the contrary, they have acted with great moderation and have done nothing that any loyal person has a right to complain of.  The malcontents are the politicians who feel that they must sink or swim with slavery.  They are the agitators.  They are the parties who are howling.  Even the Wendall [sic] Phillips’ Abolitionists are willing to leave Slavery to Providence and the War.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

As a curious instance of . . .

. . . the tenacity with which individuals some times hold onto life, we may mention the case of John Murphy whose is reported in this day’s paper.  This man was wounded at the battle of Shiloh by a ball entering the head just above the right ear, the ball had fractured the skull, passed through the base of the brain, and was found to have lodged near the top of the back part of the head on the left side, from which place it has been taken since death, and yet this man lived thirty-six days after receiving the injury. – {Keokuk Constitution.

Dr. Harvey, who is now in town, informs us that the remarkable feature in this case is the fact that the man not only lived five weeks with an ounce ball in his brain, but did not appear to suffer at all from it.  His appetite was good, and pulse natural until a day or two before his death.  He thought himself in no danger – believed he had been hit by the fragment of a shell, but did not think the skull had been broken.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Important Decision

It seems, from the following letter, that the Secretary of the Interior has reversed his decision in regard to Swamp Lands.  The Government, if we understand the correspondence will now issue land scrip in lieu of swamp lands donated to the state, but sold by the Government, previous to the selection.  As the number of acres of swamp or overflowed lands thus sold by the general Government is large, this decision of the Secretary is a very important matter to our state.

WASHINGTON CITY, May 10^th, 1862.

C. DUNHAM, ESQ., EDITOR HAWK EYE,

Burlington, Iowa.

SIR:  Enclosed I send you a letter from Hon. J. M. Edmunds, Commissioner of General Land office, in reference to swamp lands in the State of Iowa.

This reversal of the original decision of the Secretary of the Interior, made after hearing arguments of Senator Harlan and Representative Wilson, will give to the State of Iowa, many thousands of dollars, and a large amount of land scrip in lieu of lands selected in Iowa as swampy, previously sold.

Yours very respectfully,

JAS. A. BEARD

GENERAL LAND OFFICE, May 7^th, 1862

Hon. JAMES HARLAN, U. S. Senate.

SIR – Referring to the case of Report No. 13,392 for $9,006 92-100 of Iowa indemnity on account of swamp lands, I have the honor to advise you that since the rendition of the recent decision of the Secretary of the Interior, I have been instructed to regard it as fixing form of affidavit and terms as to facts in future cases, and not as affecting the past, and in this view I have certified said report and submitted it, under this date, for the final approval of the Secretary, so that it may be sent to the Treasury to the end that it may be followed by a draft.

With great respect, your obd’t serv’t,

J. M. EDMUNDS, Commissioner.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Bowling Green Evacuated

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.

The following has been received at headquarters:

“LOUISVILLE, Feb. 15.

To MAJ.-GEN. McCLELLAN:

Mitchell’s division, by a forced march, reached the river at Bowling Green to-day.  The rebels were evacuating the place when he arrived.

(Signed.)

D. C. BUELL,

Maj.-Gen.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 17, 1862, p. 1

Rumored Surrender of Ft. Donelson

BALTIMORE, Feb. 14.

Parties who came by the Old Point boat say it was reported in Norfolk, yesterday, that Ft. Donelson had been captured.  Our dispatches from Fort Monroe make no allusion to it.

A reliable passenger from Old Point says some workmen, from the city works at Richmond, say they left there for want of work.  So great was the scarcity of iron and coal that the works there were being suspended.  Coal was enormously high.

The men say there are few, if any, cannon left at Richmond, all having been sent away from time to time to other points.  Very few of the defenses there have any cannon mounted.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 17, 1862, p. 1

From the London Times

By this time the battle before Richmond has been as fully discussed as the meagerness of the news received by telegraph will allow.  The impression which this great military event has made on English society is not to be mistaken.  If there were any before who thought that the resistance of the South was likely to be overcome by the exploits of General McClellan’s army before Richmond, they are now undeceived.  It cannot be doubted that a battle of the highest importance has been fought, and that the Federal army has been thrown back a considerable distance – several miles indeed – from its former position.

But if the Virginia campaign has ended in a manner which shows that the Confederates are able to carry out a long war, the fighting at Charleston shows that even at isolated points, they are prepared to receive an enemy.  The ambiguity of the telegraph prepared as to believe that the battle before Charleston ended in a victory for the South.  The thing is now made clear.  A Federal general plainly ignorant of the enemy he was to attack, and the defenses he was likely to meet, advanced with some 1,200 men to the attack of a battery, and he seems to have been as completely defeated as the British were at New Orleans, and perhaps much in the same manner.

The moral to be deduced from these events is clear.  There is probably at the present moment, in Europe, but a single society where the defenders of this hateful and atrocious war could make themselves [heard].  The impartial opinion of every civilized nation is being more and [illegible due to fold in the paper] enterprise in which the Federals are embarked.  The orators of the Northern States may inveigh as much as they please against the interference of England, and the mob may shout scorn of England advice and defiance of English arms, but English opinion is after all, the opinion of the world, and we may hope that, in spite of affected indignation and high flown eloquence, the good sense which has uniformly marked our counsels in the affair may at length prevail.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, August 9, 1862, p. 1

The telegraph has already announced . . .

. . . the passage through the House, by a decisive majority (two to one) of Mr. Arnold’s bill abolishing and prohibiting slavery in the territories of the United States, also in all the dock yards, forts, magazines, arsenals, or other Government buildings, in all vessels on the high seas and “in all places whatsoever where the National Government is supreme or has exclusive jurisdiction and power.”  We hope this bill will speedily pass the Senate and become a law.  It completes the work.  It fills the bill.  It redeems in letter and in spirit every pledge made by the Republican party touching slavery.  When it becomes a law we will have done all we lawfully and constitutionally can do to confine slavery to the States where it exists and place it in a condition of being ultimately abolished.  We shall thus withdraw from it all support of the Federal Government and clear our skirts, as a nation, of the sin and curse, so far as we can do, and keep within the letter and spirit of the Constitution.  This is as far as the Republican party ever, in any authoritative declaration of principles or measures, declared their intention to go.  We never believed or claimed that the National Government had the power to abolish slavery in the States.  This is one of the numerous oft-repeated lies of our enemies.  The status of slavery in the States will now depend upon future events.  We do not expect it to be wholly abolished by wholesale confiscation.  But should the rebels protract the war by a stubborn resistance, resorting to the barbarous guerilla mode of warfare of the Spanish, Mexican and other half-civilized nations, it will inevitably result in the total destruction of slavery and the devastation of the Southern States.  It will thus result in the very nature of things.  The war cannot thus be prosecuted without producing widespread suffering and distress, “pestilence and famine,” throughout the whole insurrectionary country.  In such a state of affairs slave property could have no value and soon would have no existence.  Having done what we legally can do, let slavery be left to these causes and the madness of its advocates and supporters for its final overthrow.  We wash our hands.  We have done our whole duty – no more – no less. We are ready to meet the responsibility of these acts at the ballot-box – at the bar of an intelligent public opinion – before the world.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Iowa Second Regiment

A joint resolution passed the Iowa Legislature on Thursday last, protesting against the reported disgrace of this regiment, and calling on Gen. Halleck for investigation.  This is making rather a ‘big thing’ of a small matter, as it all seems to have arisen out of a petty jealousy toward this regiment, or, it may be, to show the brief authority of the two gentlemen who acted as Assistant Adjutant Generals.  If Gen. Halleck sees proper to meddle with so insignificant a matter, we hope he will give these officials a good reprimand for their foolish conduct.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 17, 1862, p. 1