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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Gen. Bragg. (search)
Federal Enlistments in Ireland. [From the Irish Times, (Dublin,) Jan. 18.] They who profess to believe that Ireland can yet spare a million and a half of her inhabitants will be cheered by the intelligence from Washington.--Mr. Lincoln has advised that the "bounties" given to recruits should be increased. The sum hitherto given to an emigrant who enlisted was £140 "cash," or £155 if he had served one year and reenlisted. Even this enormous bounty has not attracted a sufficient number of victims to the Northern standard. The Irish, perhaps, have heard from those on whom they can rely that death or mutilation for life is the certain fate of the recruit. They may have learned that a crisis must come when treasury notes will be worthless, and their dreams of a pension will be dissipated. The offer to increase a bounty already so large, proves that the Irish, to some extent, have been warned and that a higher price must be offered for their blood if the Union armies are to be rec