List of Iowa Sick Soldiers At Keokuk

We copy below the list of sick soldiers who arrived at Keokuk on Sunday by the City of Memphis, and sent to the General Military Hospital.  There were one or two too low to tive their names.  There were none wounded in this list:

Thos F Johnson, D 15^th

J V Lambert, D 12^th

P H Cambridge, B 8^th

I Newman, E 8^th

Cyrus Judd, I 8^th

J P Harding, corp I 12

B Hoover, G 14^th

Seth Paup, I 12^th

A Lumsden, I 12^th

James L Hoff, I 12^th

O W Patten, ser’g G 7

G H Brock, B 12^th

J H Shook, F 15^th

E Wortrobeck, D 12^th

J K Crane, mus’n I 12

J Wotrobeck, D 12^th

B F Crystal, D 2^nd

S W Anderson, A 2^nd

L B Clark, D 14^th

D W Tybee, E 14^th

Nelson Ralston, F 12^th

David Devour, C 15^th

Geo Egbert, F 15^th

W H Roberts, K 11^th

Theo Prescott, D 12^th

A C Blood, D 12^th

A J Davis, C 12^th

R F Rogers, C 12^th

D McCall, C 12^th

S S Blanchard, C 12^th

B D Campbell, H 12^th

Isaac Novett, E 14^th

Conrad Saums, G 11^th

F M Johnson, C 7^th

J E Denny, C 7^th

J Hartman, C 7^th

John W Guthrie, B 15

Christian Herr, D 15^th

Peter Bradshaw, E 11^th

Aaron Morlat, F 15^th

R W Oldham, C 15^th

Jos Howard, I 15^th

Wm Parker, K 15^th

Geo Hamer, I 15^th

Jas Gardner, D 8^th

M V Crouch, F 15^th

Wm Bruse, G 14^th

Geo W Bailey, E 12^th

Jos Shirley, F 7^th

A C Scriven, A 15^th

W H McKinley, D 15^th

W H Williams, K 15^th

David H Barr, G 11^th

P W Brown, E 14^th

Martin Reese, C 11^th

Harvey Bell, corp H 2d

Wm C Johnson, I 3d

L M A Roberts, K 13^th

Wm Fisher, B 13^th

Wm Young, G 14^th

J H Clark, serg’t E 11^th

Adam C Smith, E 11^th

F H Hesler, H 12^th

John F Brown, C 12^th

Frank Jordan, E 15^th

Jacob R Smith, C 12^th

P L McKinney, H 2d

Edward Lundy, C 15^th

A Mitchell, com ser 15^th

Wm R Moore, E 13^th

John J Smith, H 11^th

A J Sloan, H 12^th

Wm D Craven, H 15^th

W S Blanchard, E 7^th

Alva Hopkinson, H 11^th

A Nash, F 16^th

W A Bucher, ser G 14

David M Dick, H 11^th

R H Boyd, H 15^th

Isaac Cochran, A 7^th

R L Kiser, K 11^th

J H Trotter, E 3d

P R Buckham, F 15^th

Chas. McNall, H 7^th

Sickman Wyatt, I 15^th

J G Holloway, cor D 15

Jno Porter, E 15^th

R Ingersoll, ser H 11^th

A Lowrie, G 11^th

Zirni Troth, F 15^th

Geo Wiley, G 11^th

Thomas Shannon, D 8^th

P Lewellen, K 15^th

O E Thorson, G 12^th

F Rieson, G 12^th

Chas Skinner, G 12^th

E Engelrickson, G 12^th

A Gibberson, G 12^th

J V Bishop, B 14^th

Jas Austin, D 14^th

C Edwards, G 14^th

N Heald, D 14^th

C S Bucklan, A 12^th

Levi Dobbins, A 12^th

A H Powell, G 14^th

Isaac Green, B 3d

W H Conwell, B 3d

David Rockhill, B 11^th

Oliver Bidsoll, H 15^th

C W Noyse, H 15^th

Wm W Glenville, E 15^th

H H Bushwell, K 11^th

J A Waldo, B 15^th

Geo Palmer, F 11^th

W H Carlisle, H 7^th

R N Graham, H 7^th

Joseph Manners, C 11^th

A Mitchell, I 12^th

E Reniger, B 7^th

Lyman Kellogg, K 3d

R M Johnson, F 15^th

W W Stanfield, E 14^th

Sam Campbell, D 11^th

J F M Postlewait, B 11^th

Thos Frazier, corp D 14

Geo Roper, B 15^th

W K Goode, corp. C 15

A Homewood, I 15^th

Wm Long, F 8^th

John M Dunn, H 11^th

Lewis Gilber, E 12^th

Sam Jackson, A 12^th

R C Walter, G 11^th

Wm C Crouch, I 11^th

J W Donivan, K 13^th

R W Gross, Com. 15^th

W J Sheppard, B 3d

A S Bullard, B 3d

Geo Berryman, E 11^th

J H Cassell, D 15^th

Wm McGregor, H 15^th

Wm White, I 15^th

J H Hamilton, I 11^th

Wm Schoen, G 16^th

R D Nelson, F 11^th

W P Shelton, F 11^th

Chas C Grant, F 12^th

Sam Druse, E 8^th

J B Jones, I 15^th

Daniel F Brid, D 15^th

Thos Morgan, I 16^th

J Ritchey, G 13^th

Levi Hunt, C 15^th

W S Jackson, C 15^th

Wm Jackson, C 15^th

R H Whitenech, 2d Lt. A 15^th

J Parker, corp I 15^th

N Hasperhomart, K 13

Sam G Goff, H 3d

Wm Boorherts, 16^th

A N Stringer, 2^nd Lt. K 16^th

G G Robinson, K 12^th

A L Cocklin, I 13^th

W H Michael, B 11^th

Jon Dooley, C 13^th

G Longstraph, B 11^th

V W Andrus, 1^st Lt 13

R McLean, D 11^th

A C Boyd, A 13^th

H Moreland, ser B 15^th

A J Pyatt, A 15^th

A French, B 13^th

T J Burgoyne, corp I 7

C L Barnum, E 15^th

S R Dysart C 15^th

J A Firman, B 11^th

John Arnold, D 15^th

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

Alabama's Ordinance of Secession

AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of Alabama and other States united under the compact styled "The Constitution of the United States of America."*

Whereas, the election of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin to the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States of America by a sectional party avowedly hostile to the domestic institutions and to the peace and security of the people of the State of Alabama, preceded by many and dangerous infractions of the Constitution of the United States by many of the States and people of the Northern section, is a political wrong of so insulting and menacing a character as to justify the people of the State of Alabama in the adoption of prompt and decided measures for their future peace and security: Therefore,

Be it declared and ordained by the people of the State of Alabama in convention assembled, That the State of Alabama now withdraws, and is hereby withdrawn, from the Union known as "the United States of America," and henceforth ceases to be one of said United States, and is, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and independent State.

SEC. 2. Be it further declared and ordained by the people of the State of Alabama in convention assembled, That all the powers over the territory of said State and over the people thereof heretofore delegated to the Government of the United States of America be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from said Government, and are hereby resumed and vested in the people of the State of Alabama.

Be it resolved by the people of Alabama in convention assembled, That the people of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri be, and are hereby, invited to meet the people of the State of Alabama, by their delegates in convention, on the 4th day of February, A. D. 1861, at the city of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, for the purpose of consulting with each other as to the most effectual mode of securing concerted and harmonious action in whatever measures may be deemed most desirable for our common peace and security.

And be it further resolved, That the president of this convention be, and is hereby, instructed to transmit forthwith a copy of the foregoing preamble, ordinance, and resolutions to the Governors of the several States named in said resolutions.

Done by the people of the State of Alabama, in convention assembled, at Montgomery, on this the 11th day of January, A. D. 1861.

Mr. Clemens, from the minority of the same committee, made a report with resolutions, as follows:

The undersigned, a minority of the committee of thirteen, to whom was referred all matters touching the proper mode of resistance to be adopted by the State of Alabama in the present emergency, beg leave to present the following report:

Looking to harmony of action among our own people as desirable above all other things, we have been earnestly desirous of concurring with the majority in the line of policy marked out by them, but after the most careful consideration we have been unable to see in separate State secession the most effectual mode of guarding our honor and securing our rights. Without entering into any argument upon the nature and amount of our grievances, or any speculations as to the probability of our obtaining redress and security in the Union, but looking alone to the most effectual mode of resistance, it seems to us that this great object is best to be attained by the concurrent and concerted action of all the States interested, and that it becomes us to make the effort to obtain that concurrence before deciding finally and conclusively upon our own policy.

We are further of opinion that in a matter of this importance, vitally affecting the property, the lives, and the liberties of the whole people, sound policy dictates that an ordinance of secession should be submitted for their ratification and approval. To that end the resolutions which accompany this report have been prepared and are now submitted to the convention. The undersigned purposely refrain from a detailed statement of the reasons which have brought them to the conclusions at which they have arrived. The action proposed by the majority of the committee is, in its nature, final and conclusive; there is no chance for rehearing or revision; and we feel no disposition to submit an argument, whose only effect will be to create discontent and throw difficulties in the way of a policy the adoption of which we are powerless to prevent. In submitting our own plan, and using all fair and honorable means to secure its acceptance, our duty is fully discharged. To insist upon objections, when they can have no effect but to excite dissatisfaction among the people, is alike foreign to our feelings and our conceptions of patriotic duty. The resolutions hereinbefore referred to are prayed to be taken as part of this report, and the whole is herewith respectfully submitted.

JERE. CLEMENS.

DAVID P. LEWIS.

WM. O. WINSTON.

A. KIMBALL.

R. S. WATKINS.

R. JEMISON, JR.

Whereas, repeated infractions of the Constitution of the United States by the people and States of the Northern section of the confederacy have been followed by the election of sectional candidates, by a strictly sectional vote, to the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the United States, upon a platform of principles insulting and menacing to the Southern States; and whereas, it becomes a free people to watch with jealous vigilance and resist with manly firmness every attempt to subvert the free and equal principles upon which our Government was originally founded and ought alone to be maintained: Therefore,

Be it resolved by the people of Alabama in convention assembled, That the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri be, and they are hereby, requested to meet us in general convention in the city of Nashville, in the State of Tennessee, on the 22d day of February, 1861, for the purpose of taking into consideration the wrongs of which we have cause to complain, the appropriate remedy therefor, and the time and manner of its application.

Be it further resolved, That the State of Alabama shall be represented in said convention by nine delegates, one to be selected from each Congressional district and two from the State at large, in such manner as shall hereafter be directed and provided for by this convention.

Be it further resolved, That our delegates selected shall be instructed to submit to the general convention the following basis of a settlement of the existing difficulties between the Northern and the Southern States, to wit:

1. A faithful execution of the fugitive slave law and a repeal of all State laws calculated to impair its efficacy.

2. A more stringent and explicit provision for the surrender of criminals charged with offenses against the laws of one State and escaping into another.

3. A guaranty that slavery shall not be abolished in the District of Columbia, or in any other place over which Congress has exclusive jurisdiction.

4. A guaranty that the interstate slave-trade shall not be interfered with.

5. A protection to slavery in the Territories, while they are Territories, and a guaranty that when they ask for admission as States they shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery as their constitutions may prescribe.

6. The right of transit through free States with slave property.

7. The foregoing clauses to be irrepealable by amendments to the Constitution.

Be it further resolved, That the basis of settlement prescribed in the foregoing resolution shall not be regarded by our delegates as absolute and unalterable, but as an indication of the opinion of this convention, to which they are expected to conform as nearly as may be, holding themselves, however, at liberty to accept any better plan of adjustment which may be insisted upon by a majority of the slave-holding States.

Be it further resolved, That if the foregoing proposition for a conference is refused or rejected by any or all of the States to which it is addressed, Alabama, in that event, will hold herself at liberty, alone or in conjunction with such States as may agree to unite with her, to adopt such plan of resistance and mature such measures as in her judgment may seem best calculated to maintain the honor and secure the rights of her citizens; and in the meantime we will resist by all means at our command any attempt on the part of the General Government to coerce a seceding State.

Be it further resolved, That the president of this convention be instructed to transmit copies of the foregoing preamble and resolutions to the Governors of each of the States therein named.

And also the following resolution from the same:

Be it resolved by the people of Alabama in convention assembled, That an ordinance of secession from the United States is an act of such great importance, involving consequences so vitally affecting the lives, liberty, and property of the citizens of the seceding State, as well as of the States by which it is surrounded and with which it has heretofore been united, that in our opinion it should never be attempted until after the most thorough investigation and discussion, and then only after a full and free ratification at the polls by a direct vote of the people, at an election held under the forms and safeguards of the law in which that single issue, untrammeled and undisguised in any manner whatever, should alone be submitted.

Mr. Clemens moved that the preamble and first series of resolutions be taken up and substituted for the ordinance.

The ayes and noes were demanded.

The yeas and nays were then called on the motion of Mr. Clemens, and it was lost. Yeas 45, nays 54.

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Mr. Clemens offered the following amendment:

Provided, however, That this ordinance shall not go into effect until the 4th day of March, 1861, and not then unless the same shall have been ratified and confirmed by a direct vote of the people.

The yeas and nays were taken on the amendment, and were--yeas 45, nays 54; and the amendment was lost.

* From the Journal of the Alabama Convention.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series IV, Volume 1, Serial 127, p. 43-5

A Rebel Song Captured

Capt. Boggs stated at the Astor House that the rebel melody beginning

“Picayune Butler has come to town,”

has almost ceased to be sung by the secessionists of New Orleans.  Our men, however, have caught it up; the camps of the Federal army are alive with it, and it can be heard of a moonlight evening on the vessels ascending the Mississippi.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

Merited Confirmation

Senator Grimes, in a private letter, under date of May 7^th, to a distinguished citizen of Iowa, says:

“I presume you have heard, ere this, of the appointment and confirmation of Col. Tuttle as Brigadier-General, a distinction which he has fairly and honorably earned." – {Des Moines Register.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

Deaths of Iowa Soldiers

In the Military Hospitals and camps in St. Louis and vicinity, for the week ending May 17:

May 10 – C Brummell, co. B, 12^th.

May 10 – John Mack, co. C, 3d.

May 11 – T. M. Pasely, co. H, 17^th.

May 12 – Isaac Hanewell, co. C, 7^th.

May 12 – J. H. Wills, co. E, 6^th.

May 14 – J. F. Reynolds, co. D, 6^th.

May 15 – H. Young, co. F, 17^th.

May 15 – N. H. Haldeman, co. C, 2d.

May 16 – Aborn Griffin, co. F, 12^th.

May 16 – J. S. Brush, 2d Cavalry.

May 16 – W. C. Cunningham, co. D, 6^th.

May 17 – H. D. Reasener, co. C, 4^th.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

From The Federal Prisoner At Memphis

We are permitted to copy the following private letter from Dixie:

MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 9, 1862

DEAR FRIENDS – You have ere this, heard something from the battle near Corinth, and are no doubt very anxious as regards our fate.  This time we are unfortunate, but such, you know, is the fate of war.

We were attacked on the morning of the 6^th.  Our regiment occupied a position near the center of the line of battle.  We fought from 9 A.M., until near 5 P.M., when the enemy succeeded in turning our flanks and we were taken prisoners.  It was one of the hardest fought battles of the war.  There is a terrible loss of life on both sides.  The fighting still continues.  As regards our company, we are scattered in every direction.  None killed and but one or two wounded that we know of.  There is twenty seven us of prisoners, including our two commissioned officers.  We were taken the day after the battle to Corinth, and on the next day, on the cars to this place.  Our regiment are all quartered together in a large warehouse.  We have good quarters, and have received kind treatment since we have been prisoners.  So much so, that I can scarcely realize that we are in the hands of enemies.  They appear more like brothers.

Of the fate of those left behind, we are ignorant, but I think there is not more than two wounded.  One from Kossuth, (P. A. Dolbe.) and we heard since we came here, that Harvey Yeaman was wounded.  J. H. Robeson, M. V. Barton and C. C. Ashlock, were not on the battle field with us, being detained by sickness and duty.  John McChesney went back to camp with some of the wounded, and had not returned when we were taken.  I will give you the names of those of our company who are prisoners – Please circulate among the friends:

G W Campbell, Capt.

W T McMaken, Sergt.

Wm Thompson, Corp.

J S Wertz, Corporal,

J Arle,

J Fritz,

W D Starks,

J H Holoroft,

D B Hizer,

J S Grier,

William Goben,

Wm W Trobee,

E P McClure,

C P King, Lieut.

J H Guthrie, Sergt.

J S Statler, Corporal,

L H C Bruce, Corporal,

D T Hopkins,

J M Johnson,

Oscar Lewis,

T H Wall,

H Haight,

J A McClure,

C Stillwell,

L D Baker,

M E Calkins,

D Matson, Sergt. Major.

Our field officers were all taken together with near 200 of our regiment.

You must not grieve or despair on our account.  We are all doing well and in fine spirits.  You need not think I write this merely to allay your fears.  I have not seen our boys in much better spirits for some time.  Their greatest trouble is for the anxiety of the friends at home.  I have no reason to despair as to our fate.  We will be well treated, and perhaps soon exchanged.  If so, we may meet sooner than would have otherwise been the case.  Such seems to be the will of Providence.  We should be thankful that our lives are spared.  Keep up good heart, for I have hopes of seeing you all ere long.  May a king Providence support and protect you all.

Yours as ever,

W. T. McMaken

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

Florida's Ordinance of Secession

ORDINANCE OF SECESSION

We, the people of the State of Florida, in convention assembled, do solemnly ordain, publish, and declare, That the State of Florida hereby withdraws herself from the confederacy of States existing under the name of the United States of America and from the existing Government of the said States; and that all political connection between her and the Government of said States ought to be, and the same is hereby, totally annulled, and said Union of States dissolved; and the State of Florida is hereby declared a sovereign and independent nation; and that all ordinances heretofore adopted, in so far as they create or recognize said Union, are rescinded; and all laws or parts of laws in force in this State, in so far as they recognize or assent to said Union, be, and they are hereby, repealed.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series IV, Volume 1, Serial 127, p. 53

New Map Of Iowa

We have received a new pocket map of this State by Colton, Mills Brothers, Des Moines, agents.  It is the latest and probably most perfect map yet published – price 75 cents or $6 per dozen

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

Just now the people hereabouts are suffering . . .

. . . under a severe visitation of Gnats after but a few days experience, it is generally conceded, even by old settlers, this is going to be one of the best seasons for them ever known in this favored meridian.  As we have yet had but a single week and in the course of human events five more still remain to us, of the great gnat season, we recommend the cultivation of an amiable even temper and quite deportment with a free use of fans, pocket handkerchiefs, boughs of trees, &c.  The gnats, it may be well to remark, for the benefit of the uninformed, were introduced into Iowa at an early period by the buffalos – hence the name buffalo gnats.  When the buffalos departed for the far west, they left the graves of their fathers and the gnats to remind us that they had been here before and fixed up some of our domestic institutions.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

Mississippi's Ordinance of Secession

AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of Mississippi and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America."

The people of the State of Mississippi, in convention assembled, do ordain and declare, and it is hereby ordained and declared, as follows, to wit:

SECTION 1. That all the laws and ordinances by which the said State of Mississippi became a member of the Federal Union of the United States of America be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and that all obligations on the part of the said State or the people thereof to observe the same be withdrawn, and that the said State doth hereby resume all the rights, functions, and powers which by any of said laws or ordinances were conveyed to the Government of the said United States, and is absolved from all the obligations, restraints, and duties incurred to the said Federal Union, and shall from henceforth be a free, sovereign, and independent State.

SEC. 2. That so much of the first section of the seventh article of the constitution of this State as requires members of the Legislature and all officers, executive and judicial, to take an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States be, and the same is hereby, abrogated and annulled.

SEC. 3. That all rights acquired and vested under the Constitution of the United States, or under any act of Congress passed, or treaty made, in pursuance thereof, or under any law of this State, and not incompatible with this ordinance, shall remain in force and have the same effect as if this ordinance had not been passed.

SEC. 4. That the people of the State of Mississippi hereby consent to form a federal union with such of the States as may have seceded or may secede from the Union of the United States of America, upon the basis of the present Constitution of the said United States, except such parts thereof as embrace other portions than such seceding States.

Thus ordained and declared in convention the 9th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1861.

 WILLIAM S. BARRY,

President.

 F. A. POPE,

Secretary.

In testimony of the passage of which and the determination of the members of this convention to uphold and maintain the State in the position she has assumed by said ordinance, it is signed by the president and members of this convention this the 15th day of January, A.D. 1861.

OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE,

Jackson, Miss.

I, C. A. Brougher, secretary of state of the State of Mississippi, do hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the original ordinance of secession as the same remains on file in my office.

Given under my hand and the great seal of the State of Mississippi, hereto affixed, this the 17th day of January, A.D. 1861.

[SEAL.]

C. A. BROUGHER,

Secretary of State.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series IV, Volume 1, Serial 127, p. 42-3



Whatever may be said laudatory of . . .

. . . our gallant Iowa volunteers – of the loyalty of the mass of the people of all political parties, it is very apparent that the State does not contain a single loyal Democratic newspaper, and of the Jones and Dodge clique who governed Iowa up to 1854, very few can be sure and certainly counted as unconditional Union men.  In our State the Vallandigham manifesto is published and commended in every Democratic paper and accepted by most of the leading politicians – by men who control the organization.  This is the case in no other State.  In the New England and Middle States most of the Democratic politicians and papers reject the Vallandigham address as tainted with secession.  Even in Indiana scarcely a single Democratic newspaper will touch it.  Here is what Gray, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the leading Democratic newspaper in Ohio, says of it:

“Our motto is, first quash the rebellion and save the Constitution and the country, and then we shall have, and now be slow in expressing, our views of men and measures.  But with so gigantic a rebellion on hand as exists in [this] nation, a unity of all the friends of the Constitution and the old Stars and Stripes is necessary, in our estimation, to put it down and bring it back to its original status; and whatever may stand between the country and this result for the time must stand aside or be held in abeyance.  If it cannot be accomplished without destroying slavery where it lies across its track, let it be destroyed.  Nor can we see that this conflicts with ‘Popular Sovereignty.’  Without a country and a Constitution, what is Popular Sovereignty worth?  Then, we repeat, what the country needs most, or first, is an end to the rebellion, and the nation brought back to a recognition of the Constitution and the rights of the majority.”

Iowa, while she furnishes the largest quota of troops who are conceded to be the best and the bravest, upon every battle field, is disgraced in the possession of a few of the meanest secesh politicians in all the loyal States – men unmistakably disloyal – men who not only give their voice, their influence, and their active, persistent labor to embarrass the Government in its war for the Union, but who labor as persistently in aid of the rebellion, sending recruits to the aid of the rebel army – giving their sons to Davis and Beauregard to murder our loyal volunteers and destroy the Government.  Quite a number of prominent young men of Dubuque have been recruited for the rebel army through the influence of Jones and his family and Dennis Mahoney.  Doctor Pendleton, the Democrat nominee for Clerk of Des Moines county, and Doctor Edelin, Physician and Steward of the Marine Hospital at Burlington, appointed under Buchanan though the influence of leading Democrats of Burlington, are both in the rebel army and both fought against us in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing.

We cheerfully bear witness to the loyalty of the masses of that party and disclaim any intention of stating these facts to disparage or disgrace them.  We publish only to show the tendency of the leaders – their evident intention to USE the party to further their treasonable designs.  We ask loyal Democrats to read Mr. Douglas’ patriotic utterances after the rebels had inaugurated this infernal war, and try the Jones and Dodge conspirators by the standard he erected.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

We find the following item in . . .

. . . the Paducah special of Chicago Evening Journal of Thursday:

H. Clay Dean has been publicly disgraced and cashiered from the Southern service, by an order publicly read at dress parade, at Corinth not long since.

This item does great injustice to H. Clay King, H. Clay Pate, or some other H. Clay who had courage enough to join the rebel army. – Dean, whatever his love for the C. S. A., will never voluntarily removed his nasty carcass to any place of danger where it is liable to become food for gun powder.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

The Homestead Bill . . .

. . . has passed both Houses of Congress, and is probably now a law.  It goes into effect on the 1^st day of January next.  The following is a synopsis of its provisions:

All the lands owned by the Government are open to settlement under it in quantities not exceeding 160 acres to each person.

Any person who is a citizen of the United States, or has declared intention to become such, who is 21 years old, or the head of a family, or has served in the military or naval services of the country during this Rebellion, can make the entry on the payment of ten dollars, and the fees of the Register and Receiver of the Land Office. – That is all the settler has to pay at any time.

The act takes effect on the 1^st of January next, and requires a residence and cultivation of five years to perfect the title.

Any person can enter, under this act, land on which he has a pre-emption claim.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

The Nashville Union says . . .

. . . Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy, is the son of a horse thief, who once lived in the town of Fairview, Todd county, Kentucky, some fifty miles from this city.  He is said to be a bastard.  And he is the head of a bastard Confederacy.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

We have a few – very few – secesh in Burlington.

A story got out last night through the stupidity or mischievous propensities of somebody, to the effect that France and England had recognized the Southern Confederacy and the President had called out 100,000 more men.  The aforesaid Secesh, it was very plain, were highly elated.  Although taking pains to conceal it before loyal people, it was palpable to every body that they were hugely pleased – their deception being as transparent as that of a man drunk who strives to be very sober, and cheats no one but himself.  These [gentlemen] are as thoroughly understood and appreciated in Burlington as Jeff. Davis or Beauregard.  Even the boys in the streets know them – know of their traitorous sympathies and comprehend the hollow [hypocrisy] of their loyal professions.  Judas was not more false and not half as malignant.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

The Southern “gentlemen,” at the battle of Williamsburg . . .

. . . took a wounded New Jersey Captain prisoner, and cut off his ears.  If taken, our chivalrous friends who gave this little attention to a Jerseyman should be treated with the utmost leniency and distinguished consideration.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

The steamer Imperial . . .

. . . brought 807 sick soldiers to St. Louis from the Tennessee on Saturday, the largest number that has arrived at that port on any boat.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

Three large iron boats . . .

. . . at a cost of $320,000 each, and three iron clad gunboats at an aggregate cost of $450,000 are being built for the Government at St. Louis.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

Gov. Rector of Arkansas . . .

. . . seems to be satisfied with neither the old nor the new condition of affairs.  He has issued a proclamation calling for 4,500 volunteers for the defense of Little Rock against the approaching army of Gen. Curtis, but he denounces the inefficiency of the Confederacy in very high-flown language, and threatens that his mighty State may make a new secession.  Jeff Davis’ Little Rock organ is shocked at the Governor’s presumption.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

Aside from the direct bearing of . . .

. . . the President’s proclamation, it has a significance and importance that are quite apparent.  He does not hesitate to have it understood that circumstances may arise, under which he will feel it his duty to exercise his authority as Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy, to put an end to slavery.  If this shall be necessary to the suppression of the rebellion, reluctant as the President has shown himself to be, to interfere with the domestic institutions of the seceded States, it is very clear, that he will take the responsibility.  If, therefore, the rebels desire to save Slavery, they must cease their rebellion against the Government.  Twice he has warned them on this point, and they may rely upon it that he means what he intimated in his first proclamation; and what he fully declares in his second.  Let it further be understood that the country will fully sustain the President in carrying out the policy he has announced.  This policy is, that there will be no general emancipation unless it becomes necessary to sustain the Union.  If this shall become necessary, the President says slavery must go to the wall, and the people say amen.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

The Weekly Hawk-Eye

About the first of July we shall issue the Weekly Hawk-Eye, greatly enlarged, in an eight page form.  It will then be fully as large as the Weekly New York Tribune, and we mean that it shall not be surpassed in any material excellence by any weekly paper printed in the United States.  All this will be done without enhancing the price.  It has been though an achievement worthy of mention that the Tribune, even with its facilities, could get up a weekly eight page paper for the diminutive sum of one dollar per year.  We shall now do it even in Burlington, and a paper, too, that shall be worth more and give better satisfaction than any paper printed out of Iowa.  The price will be $1.50 for single subscriptions – 5 copies to one address, $7 – 10 copies to one address, $10 – 21 copies to one address, $20.  Friends throughout the State are asked to aid us in getting up a circulation for this edition of our paper.  Address

C. DUNHAM,

Burlington, Iowa

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– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

Barracks Burned

The greatest portion of the barracks of the 18^th Illinois regiment was burned to the ground about noon to-day, and the building would have been destroyed had it not been for our firemen, who in this as in all other instances, were “prompt to the rescue.”

The barracks were two story rough board affairs put up at a cost perhaps of $5,000.  About three-fifths of them were totally destroyed. – Cairo Gazette 8^th.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 17, 1862, p. 2

There is nothing like “keeping a stiff upper lip ” . . .

. . . and many a man has been carried through a difficulty by the assumption of a nonchalant air.  The Southern Confederacy understands these “facts in Philosophy,” and have therefore secured fifteen thousand square feet in the London International Exhibition, which is to take place this year.  What can the rebels show to make their progress in the arts and sciences, or if they had any materials how can they expect to transmit them when all their ports are closed by blockade?  The whole movement is one of brag and gasconade, to exercise what effect it may upon European nations to procure recognition of the confederacy.  It is a part of the tactics of the Cardinal Richelieu, when the lion’s hide is too short to eke it out with the fox’s. – Louisville Jour.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 17, 1862, p. 2

The Abolition of Slavery in Delaware

The progress of liberal ideas is gradually advancing, the latest illustration of which is the introduction of a bill into the Legislature of Delaware for the abolition of slavery in that State.  The bill provides, that every slave thirty-five years of age and upwards, shall be free within ninety days after its passage; and all slaves under thirty-five shall become free as they reach that age; and that from and after the first day of January, 1872, there shall not be slavery or involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime.  Males born of a slave mother [after] the passage of this act shall be held as indentured servants until the age of twenty-one, and females until they are eighteen. – The above provisions are based upon the condition that “Congress, will at its present session, engage to pay to the State of Delaware, in bonds of the United States, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, the sum of $900,000, in ten annual installments, $90,000 to be payable on some day before the first of September, 1862, to establish a fund for securing full and fair compensation to the owners of slaves who shall have been divested of their property by force of the act in question.  The bill further provides for the appointment of an assessor in each county, who shall estimate the value of the slaves, and fix the price which shall be paid for them.  The salary of the State Treasurer shall be raised when the act goes into operation, from $500 to $1,000, on account of his increased responsibilities and duties in making payment to the owners for the slaves.  If Congress will make the appropriation of $900,000 for this purpose, we think every man in the State will esteem the act calculated to promote the interests of the people.

The Wilmington Republican, in speaking of this movement, says that many of the slaveholders would gladly exchange their slaves for money, which they could use in payment for their lands and contemplated improvements, and that they are informed that many of the largest slaveholders favor the measure. – National Rep.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 17, 1862, p. 2

Gen. Fremont Exculpated by the War Committee --- Secretary Stanton Promises to Reinstate Him

From the Wash. Cor. of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The President and a number of the cabinet are favorable to giving Fremont another command, but it is opposed by the anti-Fremonters.

The Committee on the Conduct of the War express themselves satisfied with his course, part of his original plan having been to go up the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, seize the railroads, and then take Memphis, and open the cotton ports, instead of carrying on a filibustering war around the Missouri swamps and Arkansas wilds; first having left St. Louis so that it could be defended against all odds by a small force.

The committee called on Secretary Stanton and asked the reinstatement in command at once of Fremont, and informed him that his war record was clear.  Ben. Wade wanted him to have command of the whole army of the Potomac.  Secretary Stanton pledged his word that he should be placed where he could fight for his country.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 17, 1862, p. 2

Arrest of Dr. Ives

Mr. Stanton has snubbed the N. Y. Herald.  He has sent the special representative of that sheet in Washington, to chew the cud of his bitter fancies at Fort M’Henry.  The last act of this man Ives was to entertain at breakfast at Williard’s [sic], Gen. McClellan’s staff.  So we learn from a special dispatch to the N. Y. Tribune.*  This was the morning of the 9^th.  It was the 8^th that Ives outraged official dignity and decency by intruding himself where he had no business, and where he was not wanted, and was ejected from the War Office.  The next morning he feasts Gen. McClellan’s staff, whether for the purpose of fortifying himself in his quarrel with the Secretary, or for the purpose of worming out some news, does not appear.  We had much rather have seen Gen. McClellan’s staff taking breakfast in better company.

There is more in this arrest than appears on the surface.  It has been well known in certain circles that the representative of the Herald in Washington, during the last administration, had the entre of the White House and the Departments, when members of Congress and men high in position and official dignity were shut out.  State secrets were first made know to this man Ives, or some other person holding the same position.  Poor old Buchanan trembled before the frowns of the Herald, and submitted to be enslaved.  The Departments were then in fellowship with the Herald, for that paper gave them a sympathizing support in all their unblushing rascalities and conspiracies for the overthrow of the Government.

When the new administration came into power, the Herald, true to its devilish instincts, commenced to flatter and threaten by turns.  Its first effort was to persuade the President to follow in Buchanan’s footsteps, and to such extent did it go in support of secession that the enraged citizens of New York threatened to tear down the office.  The Herald yielded to a power it could not resist, and has since exerted its influence to the same purpose, but in another form.  It is in favor of any compromise, however disgraceful or humiliating to the people of the free States, that will bring back Mason and Toombs and Davis to the Senate, and preserve slavery from all harm.  It now daily praises and flatters the President and Gen. McClellan, and assails with the grossest billingsgate every eminent Republican and opponent of slavery.

We presume this Dr. Ives has been endeavoring to establish the same relations with this administration that he had with the last.  How far he has succeeded we do not know, but he found in Mr. Stanton a man whom no flattery could bribe, nor threats overawe, and with a will that hesitated at no responsibility where his judgment approved.  We most sincerely rejoice at this decisive act of the Secretary.  It gives hope to the future.  Washington has been a sink of iniquity, disgraceful to the age and country, and we trust it will soon enjoy a purer atmosphere.

Will the Herald sustain its trusted reporter?  We doubt it.  We shall not be the least surprised if it gives him the cold shoulder, until it thinks it safe to wreak its vengeance on the prompt and courageous Secretary. – Pittsburgh Gazette.

* This proves to be incorrect. – ED. GAZETTE

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 17, 1862, p. 2

From The 2d Iowa Cavalry

BENTON BARRACKS, Mo., Feb. 11^th, 1862.

FRIEND SANDERS: Benton Barracks is yet or “abiding place,” and though some with little faith may suppose from the past that it may long continue to be, yet I think the time of our departure is near at hand.  Among the vast multitude of soldiers that are now taking their appointed places in the grand “forward” which has commenced, the 2d Iowa Cavalry will soon be “counted in.”  The regiment received last week over four hundred revolvers and are expecting the balance daily.  As soon as received they will be ready.

On the 5^th the regiment took an airing to and through the city.  Yesterday, by order of Gen. Halleck, it marched to the city and was reviewed by him.  The St. Louis Democrat says: “They appeared without exception, to be in the finest possible condition and moved with the precision and confidence of veteran troops.”  The streets were thronged with “lookers on.”  The column passed through several of the principal streets.  A close observer by following the column could make out a very correct “check roll” of loyal citizens, and of those who scorn the banner that ever has and now is securing to them all the blessings of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  As the column moved through Main street the majority of the business men looked hard at us.  “Secesh” when looking at sights of this kind are no doubt impressed with an idea that fearful realities are very soon to be experienced from similar movements.

Through the streets which the column moved many ladies and all the children thronged the doors and windows, and most of the ladies, and all of the little ones were for the Stars and Stripes.  Hundreds of flags were flung to the breeze, and waving of signals by the hands of many fair ladies, gave the cheering proof, that they are for “Union.”  In many cases the schools on the streets through which we passed, had intermission, and at one place, on Washington Avenue, the young misses ranged themselves on the walk, and sung as we passed, the “Red, White, and Blue.”  It was an inspiring scene.  May this be the last time they may ever be called to witness the force of arms as necessary to enforce obedience to and uphold the supremacy of the “Constitution and the Laws.”

The people who have been so anxiously waiting until they had almost began to think patience no longer a virtue, can, no doubt, now begin to see that in his own good time McClellan is ready.  The grand advance has begun.  The “Anaconda” from his head on the Potomac, along his heavy folds down the Atlantic coast to the Gulf, and throughout his extensive coils to the Kansas border, is beginning to enclose within his mighty embrace the “hell” of Secessiondom.  His colossal proportions are now beginning to writhe with powerful contortions, and as one after another of his massive folds overlapping each other crowd its resistless sway with deadly effect into the vitals of rebellion, the arch-traitors themselves, as they hear the reverberating shouts of victory resounding in thunder tones throughout the loyal States, and witness it re-echoed from thousands of loyal hearts within the borders of their fair land they would consign to infamy and despotism, will themselves begin to recoil from his terrible embrace; and as the “beginning of the end” begins to loom up before their astonished gaze, they will cry out for the mountains and the rocks to fall and cover them from the wrath of “Abraham.”

Gen. Curtis is after Price with something worse than a “sharp stick;” a victory awaits us there, and not only there, but very soon everywhere.

There are now but three full regiments here – the 2d Iowa Cavalry, the 1^st and 2d Michigan Cavalry, with their batteries.  The first battalion of the Iowa 1^st Cavalry is also here.  From present indications, I think we will go direct to Tennessee, and very probably with Gen. Halleck himself.  He will no doubt soon take the field in person.  When the “Sunny South” greets our vision, I will let you know the result of my observations.  That such may very speedily be the case is the earnest desire of every one in the 2d cavalry.

The regiment, under the daily, thorough instruction if its efficient officers, has become very proficient in drill.  Its health is rapidly improving, and but few are now in the hospital.  Forty three have died since we have been in this camp, but the regiment now seems to be acclimated.

The weather is fine, feeling for the past two days very spring like.  As I write, the doors are wide open.  It is quite muddy, but a few days will cause it to dry up.

As I have written twice as much as I intended, and perhaps twice as much as you wish, I come to a “halt.”

DIFF.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 17, 1862, p. 2

Review: Stoneman's Raid 1865

Stoneman's Raid 1865

By Chris J. Hartley

By the spring of 1865 General George Stoneman, had been labeled a failure.  During the Chancellorsville Campaign he led an ultimately fruitless raid toward Richmond.  He followed it up during the Atlanta Campaign by being captured by Joseph Wheeler’s Confederate Cavalry near Macon, Georgia, July 31, 1864, earning the dubious distinction of being the highest ranking Union prisoner of war.  Stoneman’s chance at redemption came in the spring of 1865 when he led approximately 4,000 cavalrymen on a raid into Virginia and North Carolina.

Set against the backdrop of the closing days of the Civil War, Stoneman’s raid occurs simultaneously with the collapse of the Army of Northern Virginia at Petersburg, its eventual surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, the southward fleeing government of the Confederate States, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt for his killer, John Wilkes Booth.  Given all of these events it is no wonder that Stoneman’s 1865 raid has been in the historical shadow for so many years.

Chris J. Hartley has pulled George Stoneman’s 1865 raid out of the shadows of history by highlighting the raid in his book, “Stoneman’s Raid 1865.”  Thoroughly researched and written in an easily read style, Mr. Hartley’s impressive tome leaves no historical stone unturned.  Beginning in March of 1865 with its planning, Mr. Hartley follows the raiders every day and everywhere they went for following two months of the raid.  He meticulously traces their route through six Confederate states, and tallies up the destruction Stoneman’s troopers left in their wake.

The amount of detail in Mr. Hartley’s book is nothing less than staggering, and it can truly be said that his account of the raid is the most detailed and complete account ever written; 403 pages of text are followed by 77 pages of notes and a 19 page bibliography.

Was the raid successful?  Mr. Hartley’s answer is ultimately no.  Though Stoneman’s raiders left a wide path of destruction and was successful of destroying much of the South’s remaining infrastructure, the raid was launched too late to have any effect on the outcome of the war.  Did the raid redeem George Stoneman’s reputation in the army?  Read the book to find out.

ISBN 978-0895873774, John F. Blair, Publisher, © 2010, Hardcover, 512 pages, Photographs, Maps, Appendices, Endnotes, Bibliography & Index. $27.95