Weekly Gazette
Elgin, Illinois
Aug. 13, 1861

Our New Regiment

It is well known that an effort is being made to organize another Regiment in the Fox river Valley. Three have already gone from encampments in this County. We are ambitious of adding a fourth. As soon as the new call was issued the matter was brought to the attention of the Governor and his Adjutant. although no encouragement was given for an encampment in the County, still the companies in this vicinity are encouraged that they will be organized together into a regiment.

We have been besieged for several days with inquiries about the possibility of getting Col. E. S. Joslyn to command the new regiment. We can only say that the Governor will promise a Colonel's commission to no man until the regiments are made up, and then the men of the Regiment will recommend names to the Governor for field officers, and the men so recommended will be commissioned unless there are good reasons for rejecting them. It is there fore for the new regiment itself to say whether they will be led by Col. Joslyn or some one else.

"The Colonel is now at home on a furlough for twenty days, and the matter can be decided at once.