Indiana War Effort Encourages Volunteer Support
Indiana citizens rally to aid volunteers and families with generous bounties. Dearborn and Hendricks counties pledge 20 dollars per recruit while Marion county leaders offer 100 dollars to the first company. Land grants of forty acres valued at 150 dollars each and free schooling for daughters accompany the offers. Decatur Hamilton counties raise sizable sums and other counties follow.
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Tur
Srt
Srrarrry
Indiana
Dearborn
Hendricks
Marion County
Todianapolis
Decatur County
Hamilton County
Cavalry for the Bogpey call and mobilization effort
The Secretary of War authorized Gov Morton to raise a cavalry regiment in Indiana to serve in Kentucky border counties with arms and equipment to be furnished immediately. Volunteers and rapid recruitment are praised, with reports of two hundred men at Lafayette in four hours and companies forming in Decatur and Shelby for dispatch along the river. General Pope tightens security against spies and Austrian muskets are being issued to militia to fortify border counties.
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Secretary of War
Gov. Morton
Indiana
Border
Kentucky
Morton
A Victorian Church Letter on Tobacco and Sermon Length
Avnona writes to condemn tobacco in church and criticizes a pastor for a lengthy sermon. He praises some aspects like choir singing and family seating, but mocks grand rhetoric and notes fatigue and sleep during the service. He ends with a plea for reform and fiat justitia.
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Avnona
M.E
House of God
Goa
Mansfeld
Blackstone
Beatia
Nile
Jordan
Land of
Dixie
Orion
Earth
Andromica
Hector
Homer
Sciv
Rocky Isle
Israel
Babylon
Brother
Temple
C. T
Eugene Melville
Publications. Tas Atlantic Memory August Number
The August edition of Tas Atlantic Memory is ready. It offers engaging reading and is highly entertaining, published by Ticknor & Fields of Boston at $3 per year postpaid. Godey’s Lap Book August issue features a splendid engraving of Daniel Webster at Shakespeare’s Tomb with attractive illustrated content, published by L. A. Godey in Philadelphia at $3 annually.
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Tas Atlantic Memory
Ticknor & Fields
Boston
Mass
Post
Gopzr
Magazine
Daniel Webster
Ripley County political unions seek one ticket for war effort
The Indianapolis Journal notes Ripley county Democrats and Union County Republicans met in the same town and agreed to postpone their conventions and later hold a single joint conference. They aim to nominate one ticket to unite under the war government, praising the steps as a patriotic move to heal party divide and bolster the war effort.
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Ripley
Indianapolis
Ripley County
Democratic
Central Committee
Union County
Union
Democratic Committee of
Union Convention
Indiana Journal lists vacancies in many Indiana districts
The Indiana Journal notes vacancies to be filled in numerous counties including Allen, Bartholomew, Cass, Howard, Pulaski, Clinton, Carroll, Crawford, Orange, Decatur, Dearborn, Floyd, Franklin, Greene, Jefferson, Jasper, Knox, Daviess, Lake, Porter, Madison, Grant, Lagrange, Elkhart, Marion, Martin, Lawrence, Monroe, Brown, Ohio, Switzerland, Parke, Vermillion, Posey, Vanderburgh, Wabash, Kosciusko, White, Warren, Benton, White, Warwick, Spencer, Perry, Wayne, Adams, Wells, Jay, Blackford, St Joseph, Marshall. It also lists Senators holding over and party alignments for various counties and districts. A contrasting Louisville Journal piece discusses the rebel threat, loyalty, and calls for confiscation of rebel property, urging stronger measures and military expansion to defeat the rebellion.
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Martin
Lawrence
Monroe and Brown
Ohio
Switzerland
Parke
Vermillion
Posey and
Vanderburg
Wabash
Kosciusko
Whitely
Huntington
Warren
Benton
White
Warwick
Spencer
Perry
Wayne
Adams
Calm words from Seward spark war fever in 1862
A New York World excerpt relays private messages from William Seward to Charles Cook and Charles Diven urging rapid recruitment and strength to end the Civil War. Diven reiterates the stance, stressing urgency to avoid fighting the world. The letters reveal political pressure and public panic over manpower.
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Diven
M.C. Exairna
Dean
Orang
New York
van Valkenburg
McClellan
Call for county loyalty meetings to banish traitors in Indiana
From the Indianapolis Journal. a call to organize county committees to identify and banish suspected traitors within twenty days. If not departed, they shall be arrested and tried by juries of citizens under a no-rights doctrine. Emphasizes that traitors have no rights under the Constitution and urges purging guerrilla support at home. Also notes Texan Rangers and Union casualties at Murfreesboro.
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Kentucky Union
Louisville Journal of
Morgan
Indianapolis Journal
Newberg
Indiana
Kentucky
Gov. Wright
Senate
Union
Howe
How to Work and Raise a Thousand Men
A fragmented advice piece urges self reliance in enlistment, suggesting counting oneself or appointing a proxy, and to abandon other tasks until one secures a capable candidate. It hints at offering additional bounty if needed, stressing brisk action by an American citizen.
Families of three year volunteers deserve support now
The Indiana American urges immediate aid for the families of three year volunteers who feel forgotten as efforts pour into filling quota. It praises local generosity but calls for extended aid to wives and children while noting Col. Ormsby reports 300 men ready in Switzerland county. The county shows strong enlistment with 1000 in service and 590 on standby ready to go.
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Indiana Americani
Switzeragp
Noble
Col. Ormsby
Vevay
Stout
Switzerland County
Legion
State House
Cal. Ormsby
Angelic Slave Catcher and Biblical Abductions Echoed
A Nashville Union excerpt riffs on Genesis and Exodus to mock enforcement of laws and slave narratives. It contrasts angelic commands to return to masters with Moses leading slaves, recounting plagues and the Red Sea escape in a satirical tone.
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Chicago Times
Abraham
Hagar
Moses
Pharaoh
Red Sea
Nashville Union
Shovels and Spades and More Tools Noted in Nine Listings
A garbled OCR fragment lists a diverse range of tools and hardware including shovels spades hinges axes molasses gates curry combs chain pumps garden rakes trace chains briar scythes padlocks grinders adzes auger hands hames log chains wrenches cedar faucets and plows. The text suggests a catalog or sale item spread across nine entries with scattered branding and miscellaneous hardware terms.
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Ayrenklin, Greene and Jefferson
Jasper
Wells, Jay
Ford
St. Joseph and
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Clarke
Scott
C. P. Ferguson
Clay and Putnam
Arch Johnson
Delaware and Blackford
Walter March
Fayette and Union
B. F. Graypool
Fountain
Henry Campbell
Gibson
Thomas
Bboyiye
Hamilton and Tipton
G. B. Grubbs
Hendricks and Boone
Sol
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Henry
J. H. Mellett
Johnson and Morgan
Frank Landers
Laporte
Starke
A. Teegarden
Miami
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D. Bearss
Montgomery
M. T. White
Noble, DeKalb, and Steuben
T. R. Dickinson
Randolph
T. M. Browne
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Deas Coox
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Ano
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Litto
Cooper’s
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Shoenberger and I. Belle
Shoenberger’s
Trenton
Sanderson Bros
Sweden
Pittsburgh
Cobb E Co
Fimes
Wood
Boone
S. A. ‘Burdy
Joseph Beckett
Thos
Davia
B. Curtis
Cyrus’ Canfield
Dearborn County
Benjamin Rice
Boone Co
P. Cobb: & CO
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J. W. Bailey
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Exwerland
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Ss. W.gaff
A. Lozier
W.E. Gibson
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Queens Ware
Gaff, Lozier & CO
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Lowe Tevens & CO
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