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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1864
Page
2
The Baltimore platform advances abolition and national unity, praising wartime emancipation and envisioning a future free of slavery. The writer reflects on Canada West's resources, Detroit’s growth, and visits to Independence Hall with a vivid recounting of Franklin and Jefferson. The piece closes with a tribute to the Declaration of Independence and enduring liberty.
The writer travels from Saratoga to Detroit in two days with a night in Rochester New York. He praises the Mohawk valley and compares it to Connecticut while noting land reclamation and a healthy climate. He recalls fever years, commends forest clearing, and admires the Suspension Bridge and Niagara Falls before resuming his western tour with relief after a perilous crossing.
From our New York Correspondent dated June 14 1864 the column covers the fashion of going out of town contrasting city life with rural retreats and Mount Hope clam bakes. It notes returned volunteer regiments including the Garibaldi Guards the Seventy-ninth Highlanders and the Ninth U S with sixteen and six officers thanked. It also reports a boxing contest between Dudley Kavanagh and William Goldthwait won by Kavanagh and mentions a slow news week due to army movements and Virginia soldier progress.
The July issue of The Lady's Friend showcases a steel engraving of a couple, a fashionable Empress Eugenie plate, and numerous dress illustrations. It includes stories like A Story for Staters in Law and The Transformed Village, with price listed at 20 cents per number and $2.00 per year. An army correspondent reports a find of over $4,000 in silver by a butcher at Geo Burneide's corps, split with his company.
A special Providence train returned Bristol County Company G 2d RI to Bristol after a three-year term. Citizens welcomed them with a town hall reception led by Col. Charles Sherry Jr and Rev Stowe. Officers and men, wounded soldiers, and local dignitaries were honored with bouquets, music, and prayers.
Three months ago a boy, son of Mr Wo Bradshaw on Church Street, broke a leg when a show board fell. Carter's Zouave Troupe sent ten dollars to help, though the board was not theirs. A local donor matched the fund for medical bills. A group formed an engine company to repaint Old No. 2 at Bradford Street. Slaymaker and Nichola's Olympic Circle had a full tent on the Common, praised for the troupe's quiet conduct. The M W Grand Lodge of Rhode Island accepted an invitation to lay Trinity Church’s corner stone in Providence on Friday the 24th.
The article notes the Carter Zouave Troupe performing at Town Hall with strong crowds last night and warns of a final show tonight. It then lists extensive casualty, discharge, transfer, and missing details for Company G of the Second Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry from 1861 to 1864, including names, dates, and statuses, followed by miscellaneous war and world news items and a dated Civil War dispatch from Washington on troop movements near Richmond and the James River with updates on Generals Sherman Butler and Sturgis.
Uncle Joe recalls meeting a chronic faultfinder who grumbles at everything and pries into others affairs. He compares the impossible task of pleasing such a person to drilling a hole through a red hot stove with a tallow candle.
A compact note highlights that many fortunes were built through advertising. It underscores the power of promotion in commerce and the enduring lure of business publicity as a driver of wealth.
A town marksman shot a rare Black Throated Diver near Mount Tope and displayed the two foot bird in Benjamin M. Lincoln’s Hope street window. The diver, scarce in the area, features a black head and bill, green neck band, white breast with damp down, silvery plumage, and legs set far back. The piece notes Lincoln as a McClellan Democrat and the coincidence with a Baltimore presidential nomination. The item ends with a comment on the Providence Press’s new look and prosperity.
Two weeks from next Monday and the Fourth of July will be upon us occasioning a call for a meeting on Monday evening next.
Dispatches report General Barbridge in Kentucky attacking Morgan at Cynthiana at dawn. After an hour of hard fighting Morgan’s forces were completely routed with about 300 killed and similar numbers wounded, nearly 400 captured, and Hebron’s command plus 1000 cavalry recaptured. Union losses around 150. Morgan’s scattered troops fled, weapons discarded, and morale collapsed.
The White House special reports Union forces starting with the 18th corps marching from White House toward the left under cover of darkness. The withdrawal was quietly accomplished with minimal opposition aside from a few shells. Main crossings occurred at Jones Long and Bottom bridges. the enemy offered no pursuit.
The Washington special reports Sheridan plans to destroy the Richmond Fredericksburg line and diverging roads then move toward Charlottesville. Lee’s cavalry vanished Friday likely pursuing Sheridan. Steele’s force holds Little Rock Pine Bluff Fort Swithh and Duvall’s Bluff with strong defenses. rebel forces in Arkansas are scattered.
From Fort Myers to Fort Meade a Union detachment marched ninety miles meeting guerillas who fled. They captured twenty two horses and over one thousand head of cattle driven into lines. Seventy one Union prisoners were released and seventy women and children rescued. Expedition lasted fourteen days covering more than two hundred miles. Three vessels with cargoes were captured.
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