Union War Faith and Duty in Hoosier Letters
An Army correspondent from Camp Steadman, Tennessee, urges Hoosier readers to stand firm for the Union, basing arguments on wartime duty and loyalty to the flag. He denounces Copperheads, praises generals and fleets, and condemns peace at the cost of liberty, while recounting camp life near Nashville and a Manchester Union meeting.
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Minn
Ladiana
Ohio
Ilinois
Tennessee
Kentucky
Arkansas
Missouri
Alabama
Louisiana
Hoosiers
Triune
Nashville
Nashville&Pike
Bird
Bvtror
Universalist Church
Mule ‘Town
Wm. Dunn
Elder Conley
Milan
Potomac
Union
A. J. Corton
Terrific Tornado Strikes Grundy County Illinois
A fierce tornado hit Grundy County on Saturday tearing houses from foundations and tossing trees, livestock scattered, and furniture whisked a half mile. Forty acres of timber were uprooted. One person is reported dead as the storm moved on.
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Grundy County
Illinois
Garden Vegetables For The Farmer's Family Year Round
The Massachusetts Plowman urges farmers to ensure a liberal year round supply of garden vegetables. Asparagus lettuce radishes and green peas should be enjoyed in early spring while other vegetables remain scarce. The piece compares feeding humans to feeding animals and argues the farmer deserves the earth's best produce.
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Massachusetts
Wages of sin are death sermon and political war talk
A lengthy religious exhortation contrasts sin with moral death and the law of life, stressing knowledge of true laws, self-conquest, and conscience. It follows with Daniel S. Dickinson arguing in New York that during civil war only two parties exist, upholding or destroying government, and denouncing copperheads as treacherous.
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Eldridge
Judge Cotton
Saul
Robert Hunter
Broadway
New York
James Hunter
Paul
Lfe
Daniel S. Dickinson
Tom Promisers
Caesar
Connecticut
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Long
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Meater
Irwin
Cell
Freeman
Ranadell
Snyder
Winchester
Tevin
Bliver
Dre. Floods
Banj. Plummer
Dr R. Hunter
Toi
Aurora Commercial
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Springfield
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Laence
James Clark
Queen Victoria
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