27 Nov 1862
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1862
Page
1
A Sabbath morning verse titled Our First Snow describes a snowy landscape and campfire scenes. The speaker appeals to God to turn the tide of woe and spare soldiers from suffering in the snow, blending domestic memory with wartime imagery.
A narrator recounts a merchant's harsh judgment of a young clerk George Sayers misled by apparent notes and a missing five hundred dollars. After a long chain of discoveries the employer learns the truth, apologizes, and restores the clerk, ending with the pair prospering and praising virtue.
A Civil War letter from Camp Near Lacey Mississippi dated November 16 1862 recounts Corinth army maneuvers over the past two weeks. The column moved from Corinth to Hatchie River eight miles east of Grand Junction Tennessee and joined Grant's forces near Grand Junction.
The Parkersburg Gazette notes a Virginia governor issues a proclamation for a Thanksgiving day. It highlights the rarity of such proclamations in the state and contrasts with prior governors who seemed to find little to be thankful for.
Correspondence reports Union steamers Darlington and Potomska with 110 colored troops under Col Beard sail up Sapelo and St Simons sounds. Enlistments surge from paroled enslaved people, with attacks on salt works and plantations, captures of prisoners, and scenes of families fleeing to safety amid Confederate resistance.
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