The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-04-28
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Major General Hunter seems likely to
mare his Southern Department thorough.
y loyal, notwithstanding its inclusion Of
South Carolina. Wherever BE advances
the national flag the rebels either succ unb
or lily before it; and the following General
Order, one Of the most important of the
campaign, issued at Fort Pulaski, the day
after the surrender Of that important
fortress, shows how the number Of loyal
freemen in that State is likely to be. In
creased.
HsAparAsTERs DEpAErNE~ra o, rxs socrH,
FoRT PuLAsK. oOcxsrus lsLAnp Ga.
April II, 1859.
All persons Of color lately held to in
vobnatary service by the enemies of the
United States, in Fort Pulaski and on
Cockspur Island, Ga, are hereby confis-
Gated nd declared free, in conformity
with law, ana shall hereafter receive the
fruits or Their own labor. Such of said
persons of color as are able-bodied, and
may be required, shall be employed in the
Quartermaster's Department, ut the rates
heretofore established by Brigadier Gen.
T. w ShermN
! Major Gen. DAVID HUNTER,
CHAs. g, HALpisE, Asst Adjt. Gen.
Nor il this III. Gen. H aatef ihas ad-
Creased to, Mr.. ,Piarcs, thae Treasury
Agsnt II tqge Of IA abandOsed SEQ r.
land plat9Dns. ) 1eitlr1hich We pub-
lish elsewhere, asking, among other things,
for "the names OF the former owners, and
the names Of the persons formally held to
Involuntary Rrvice," now in charge Of
the Gov 4msut sagents. On receiving
this information, we understand it to be-
the intention of Gen. Hunter to afford
said owners a reasonable time to prove
thsir fealty 70 tho Government, and then
in case Of their failure to do SO, and upon
sufficient proof Of their treason, he will
1t once restore these slaves to freedom.
TAe Gallant Isw.ns.
Iowa is young State, but it is the
home of heroes. With the present war
she has begun war history that yields
in splSndoSssad honor u chat Of 10 0tate
in the Union, and NO country ON the
globe. Her sosE Is The birthplace OF 1
new chivalry, and she has become the
mother Of . race of heroes. Her soldiers
boast little, and she has no industrious
penny-s liner tos boast joe them. Her
soldiers are as modest ~ they are brave.
They are not fierce braggxrts They are
rs gentle and tractable as children.
But when the storm OF blood begins
they are the guiding and governing he
roes of the tempest. Where the harvest
of death is to be reaped, they are the fore
most of thsrsapers. Where a perilous
assault is to be made, somehow or other
there is always an Iowa regiment, or the
wasted shadpwsof m Iowa regiment, TO
lead it. .It was 50 1t Wilson'S Creek it
was so at Belmont; it was 80 at TT. DON
slson; it was SO at Pea Ridge I it was
90 It Shiloh; II will ever be SO through
out the war.
All our Western troops have been he
roes, but the Iowa troops have been he
roes among heroes. The s.Iowa First" !,
Iowa Second. Cows Fourth and
"Iowa Seventh" are bodies of men who
would have given an additional lnstre even
to Thernopyle, Marathon, Austerlits, or
Wagram. Iowa may be proud Of her sons,
and all Americans may be proud Of Iowa.
-CSt. Louis News III. 81
Dangerous Won.
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