18 Aug 1863
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1863
Page
1
A jumble of 19th century text including a joint resolution proposing constitutional amendments, wartime orders restricting burials and hospital visits, an advertisement for a hair growth product, and a lengthy poem to Theo Teply Gaorge Dunton. The scattered pieces reference Pennsylvania. Gettysburg orders urge loyalty and limit cemeteries.
A garbled reading recalls a sea shanty of sailors wives and their husbands at sea, then shifts to reflections on virtue and self-control. The text contrasts repentance with action, warns against profane language and gossip, and stresses discipline, humility, and the cleansing power of repentance.
A column offers admonitions to young women about marriage, behavior, and propriety, urging modest dress, practical skills, and parental counsel. It rails against "husband hunters" while praising domestic virtue and self improvement. A brief anecdote follows about a Prussian marshal’s prisoner who confesses to "taking something" and a satirical exchange over legacies for widows and wives.
A satirical piece argues against men asking for a kiss, promoting bold seduction and suggesting ten thousand ways to kiss without asking. A Southwest New Yorker comments on an alligator sighting near the Mississippi, noting humor and wonder.
A dramatic scene in the fourteenth ward shows a pale man named Lishwman anxiously awaiting names drawn from the draft wheel. He mutters warnings, shouts about the wheel, and endures a tense moment as the crowd reacts to successive selections. The Provost Marshal questions him while observers joke about fate and neighborly ties.
A humorous collage piece recounts a colored waiter dodging the draft with two men claiming lame legs and ending in lock up. It moves to a ballet troupe joke and a hair curl purchase tale, then a string of humorous observations about attire, travel, candy, and rings as social quips.
A historical broadside discusses General Jackson’s stance on upholding laws and lawful resistance, then reports on Sir Moses Montefiore’s visit to Constantinople and the Sultan’s reaffirmation of protections for Jews, plus notes on Jerusalem hospital funds and the planned house near the valley of Gihon. It also reflects on time, colonial tensions, and American naval policy amid Civil War era debates.
A compact collection of moral exhortation and practical notes. It urges resisting sin as the enemy of man, warns of sin's grave consequences, and offers a disinfectant use for green copperas to purify air and spaces in hospitals, markets, and sinks. It references a Toledo Blade dispatch about a couple quitting ahead and marriage vows.
A compendium lists Union successes fromGettysburg and Vicksburg to Helena and Port Hudson with thousands of prisoners and captured arms. It notes cavalry gains under Buford Kilpatrick and garrison actions at Fort Sumter, Yazoo City, Morris Island, and Jackson, plus Morgan’s raids and Morgan’s losses.
In the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph the archbishop urges a Day of Thanksgiving and fasting in the diocese. Special services are planned for the sixth of the month to thank God for military and national restoration, and to pray for continued union and peace amid wartime trials. The discourse links victory to divine Providence and calls for gratitude, unity, and forgiveness toward the South and foreign powers.
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