24 Apr 1862
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1862
Page
1
The narrative contrasts John Brown’s rustic contentment with a plain man’s creed while detailing Fort Donelson’s battlefield scenes. It recounts trenches, graves, cannon fire, and the grim toll on infantry and horses, with eye witness observations from the engagement and notes on regiments and positions.
On Friday March 28 the Sky Lark left Nashville, passing Fort Donelson where field-pieces crown the bluff. The narrator notes earthworks and artillery wreckage along the river, a riverfront village at Dover, and the search for arms in the Cumberland river as dawn rises over the battlefield.
The text notes Huntsville as capital of Madison County and a social hub for Alabama aristocracy in summer. It cites Gen. Mitchell’s occupation, railroad links, and strategic position severing rebel army communications. It gives 1860 population of about 5,000 and Madison County totals including 14,573 slaves. It lists vote tallies for Douglas Breckinridge and Bell.
The Committee studying ordnance contracts was shown a complete collection from Jenks & Co. of Brideburg near Philadelphia detailing Springfield musket construction. Stocks pass through sixteen machines. nipples require twenty two operations. triggers fourteen. ramrods five. bayonets eighteen. The scope of the factory was praised as highly complete and the contract endorsed.
The new treason statute from the last Maryland Legislature session activated on Thursday. It punishes aiding rebels, enlisting for the Confederate forces, or comforting enemies, with death or six to twenty years imprisonment and fines for supplying rebels or supporting their cause.
A Paris hospital report confirms a wounded solider who died at Solferino later suffers loss of personal identity. He answers inquiries about himself with phrases claiming he is a machine made to imitate Valin, mixing memory with hallucination.
The report from Major General Grant’s campaign details a morning reconnaissance on the Corinth road, skirmish actions with Confederate cavalry, and the capture or destruction of enemy camps while tending wounded and burying dead. It ends with a lengthy Portland transcript on true greatness, humility, and simple virtue.
Dispatch from Catumacs Ohio dated April 13 thanks the volunteers for gallantry at Pittsburg Landing Tennessee. It notes that Ohio senators did their duty and expresses confidence those still in the field will avenge fallen comrades. Home friends, mothers, wives and families are cared for the sick and wounded.
The rebel Senate nearly passed a law banning raising more than three bales of cotton for oneself and one per hand, with a forty dollar per bale fine for excess. The Cleveland Leader cries foul, ridiculing the move as despotism and a strike against Southern rights.
A Civil War exchange notes Beauregard asking a flag of truce to send a burial party and allow relatives to accompany it after heavy fighting near Pittsburg Tennessee. He cites exhausted troops and re enforcements and seeks permission for an orderly interment on the battlefield of Shiloh.
The message dated Monterey Tennessee records General Grant stating that due to warm weather all dead on both sides have been buried within Union lines. He declines admitting the opposing parties to within his lines but offers courtesy aligned with duty and humanity. The note bears Maj. Gen A. S. Gray as the commanding officer.
Since January the Union for ces has captured five hundred ninety siege guns and field pieces from rebels. The artillery could equip a grand army and reflects the rebels’ strong losses and supply difficulties.
General Mitchell's division reaches Huntsville Alabama after detaching from Buell's march to Pittsburg Landing. He captures about two hundred prisoners and fifteen locomotives, along with rolling stock, crippling the Central Southern Railroad. Huntsville noted for growth, water works, and Civil War sentiment. The move disrupts Confederate rail communication between Southwest and East.
A deserter camp near Island No. 10 revealed twelve to fifteen young women camped by a river with campfire breakfast, disheveled attire, and visible feminine adornments. The scene mixes military paraphernalia with boudoir props, described as a rural retreat and a new feature in war.
Mr A Hubbard of Detroit reports in the Michigan Farmer that tying common elder bushes to plum branches cured insect damage. After three years, with elder bush placement every few days from fruit set to maturity, his friend achieved a fall crop of perfect fruit, following earlier poor results with cloth shaking.
A Makxerma at Cairo complains of being swindled of vegetables and articles, rousing anger. He tells the commanding officer that if the Angel Gabriel moves at Cairo there would be no resurrection because people would swindle him out of his horn before he could act.
A brief note contemplates stamps as distant relations through shared history and culture. It suggests slight, almost familial ties among different issues as they reflect broader postal systems and eras.
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