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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 07, 1864

Page

3

Washington Letter and Trial News Highlight 19th Century Stakes

A Washington letter notes covenant ladies adopting calicos gloves and linen collars while younger belles resist. In New York an action is filed against John Morrissey by Pablo de Arista for twenty three thousand dollars lost at the gaming table. Sallie Pollock is sentenced to Washington Penitentiary until the war ends for aiding rebel mail carriers.

Washington New York John Morrissey Pablo de Arista Wheeling

Butler Clarifies Peck Administration In Army Dispatch

Excerpt from Gen. Butler to Gen. Peck shows Butler did not disapprove of Peck’s command. Fort Monroe May 3 1864 notes relief from Newbern was preplanned and not a rebuke. Letter states Plymouth’s fall on the 20th had no bearing on Peck’s removal and no censure is implied.

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Rail collision near Smiths Tunnel kills soldiers

A Louisville and Nashville Railroad accident near Smiths Tunnel east of Gallatin destroys two trains. The downbound Louisville train with the 10th Indiana cavalry loses three soldiers and 87 wounded. Union Captain Brown pursues Bennett’s guerrillas at Green River, killing Capt. Cook and capturing horses and rifles. News from the front is unavailable.

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