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The forces in Platte County have all been withdrawn, the 18th Missouri leaving tomorrow for St Louis. I learned some time since that the field of action for this regiment would probably be transferred to the Mississippi, and this movement corroborates information then received.
The 12th Wisconsin and 2nd Iowa Cavalry are now quartered here, Col. Doubleday, of the latter regiment, having been appointed to an acting Brigadiership.
He was, however, previous to coming over from Platte City, so unfortunate as to incur the displeasure of the Lane organ of this city (St. Louis, Missouri), in returning runaway slaves to loyal owners.
Charley Doubleday understands that the present is a war to restore the Constitution, and not to violate it past all hope of a restoration; and will not very easily be made a convert to the Jim Lane doctrine of dusky esquires.
(Researcher's note: General James Henry Lane was a Free-State leader, U.S. Senator, and Union brigadier general during the Civil War. In the summer of 1862, Union General Jim Lane began recruiting black soldiers in Kansas without formal initial approval from President Lincoln's War Department. He helped raise the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers, which was one of the very first African-American military units to organize and see combat in the American Civil War.)Date(s) of Creation
2/22/1862
