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ALL inquiries both at Camp Lincoln, and all other camps proving ineffectual, Mrs. Bowles and her companion returned to Saratoga street without learning any thing that bore on the loss of the boy, except that a small detachment of soldiers had on the fourteenth, the very day Robert left, been sent forward to Camp Chase in Ohio.
On the strength of this, Mr. Woodward went at once to Washington and requested the proper officer to send in the name of his mother a requisition for the missing boy.