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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1862
Page
2
A reflection on clergy involvement in political matters during crisis, praising bold public speech and moral duty. The text argues ministers should not stay silent when civil liberty and human slavery are at stake, urging active stance and support for heavenly truth during national trials.
Enthusiastic Bristol town meetings pledge to recruit the required men for the nine months regiment. A war committee oversees enlistment and a bounty fund surpassing 4500 dollars supports volunteers. Notables including Byron Diman and Rev Sidney Dean address crowds as stores close after sunset to boost war effort.
A Boston Journal excerpt extols the revived spirit of duty and sacrifice supporting the Union during the Civil War. It reports a forged $250,000 marshal order thwarted, recruitment rumors for loyal black South Carolinians, large grain and flour shipments from New York, an arson attempt at Hartford's State Arsenal, Butterworth's steel breastplate in New Orleans, and Confederate expenditure totaling over $347 million by July 1862 along with a skirmish near Sherburne where Col. McNeil defeated Porter’s guerrillas.
A Warrené meeting in Armory Hall voted to pay families of draftees two and one half dollars per week for nine months for nine months. The town also appropriated 1000 for relief of service members families. A common meeting aimed to fill the town quota and raised about 2000 for volunteers. A later meeting featured Rev. Sidney Dean and Rev. L. D. Davis as speakers. The bounty fund grew toward 3000.
Col Greene has set up a recruiting tent at the corner of Hope and State streets to receive enlistments and provide information on pay bounty and service details. By yesterday afternoon a list of volunteers includes Charles A. Greene Richard B. Franklin Nathaniel Gladding George H Douglass William H Waldron James A. Mason George R. Shaw Richard E. Mearthy Samuel Bagnell Freeborn O Dunbar George W. Simmons William J. Darling Tenac L. Darling William Gordon George H. Dary Cassander Kingman
A War Committee was appointed at the meeting on Monday evening. Members include Samuel W. Church A Sidney O Wolf Thomas J Thurston Messadore T Bennett Thomas J Usher Charles Sherry Jr John B Pearse and Benjamin M Lincoln. Officers chosen are M T Bennett Chairman Wm O Qoshman Secretary and A S O Wolf Treasurer. Our thanks to the former Postmaster for the sample of fine peaches sent Thursday.
Godeys Lady's Book October offers seventy four engravings, fashion plates, music and drawings while Atlantic Monthly October boasts works by Henry D. Theresa, Bayard Taylor and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Also notes cotton sale prices in New York with Sea Island and Uplands ranges.
The draft is postponed in Massachusetts to October 1. Boston seeks 1500 volunteers to fill quotas. A Rhode Island baggage wagon is said to be in rebel hands at Frederick. A Fall River horse owned by Barnabas Blossom died recently at age 42. Providence raised 23 000 dollars for the war fund at a Monday meeting. Carr Penn of Barnard’s staff has been released and was in Washington on the 14th. Canadian and British press criticism continues with defiant tone. A Port Royal letter notes steamer South Carolina issues and possible misfortune. Rev Dr Zogharias prayed for the President in rebel presence. Stonewall Jackson attended services later that day.
Secretary Stanton reviewed desertion policy and Baltimore and Missouri actions. Reports note Col. Dixon Miles killed at Harper’s Ferry and various Civil War incidents including confiscation, prison releases, and freight loss.
In a long piece the writer assigns Gen. George B. McClellan credit for saving the nation from dire peril. He praises McClellan for stabilizing demoralized troops after Pope’s defeat and for strategic skill and calm leadership.
New York Tribune correspondent notes Gen Burnside and staff on a hill opposite South Mountain with a broad battlefield view though woods and the mountain summit hid parts. McClellan arrives in the afternoon to an enthusiastic reception by the soldiers. A presidential cavalry guard is formed for daily drives between the Soldier’s Home and the White House. Colored citizens of the city enlist for Gov Sprague’s Rhode Island regiment under Prof Gilbert Walker, who has enlisted seventeen men. Washington reports 130,000 troops with Gen McClellan in Maryland. Hooker’s division contains about thirty regiments.
McClellan reportsGen Franklin on left won a decisive engagement capturing the crest near Middletown after a severe fight. Reno is killed and Hooker’s corps advances. Subsequent dispatches claim Union forces hold the gained ground with heavy enemy retreat or demoralization and thousands of prisoners.
A report from Washington dated Sept 15 describes a battle three to four miles from Middletown Frederick county at the foot of the first westward mountain. Union forces drove rebels from walls and fields up the slope to the mountain summit before nightfall. Gen Gibbons placed a battery on the right, aiding center troops. Gen Reno was killed amid reconnoitering. Other dispatches note Longstreet’s ammunition train captured by Illinois and New York cavalry with around 75 prisoners, and a major Confederate rout reported by Washington correspondents, with varying local confirms in New York and Chambersburg.
Reported sequences of Civil War actions from September battles across Maryland and Pennsylvania. From Harper's Ferry evacuation and Burnside reoccupation to skirmishes at Sharpsburg and Middletown, with dispatches noting artillery captures, prisoner counts, and a wounded courier describing the heavy fighting and strategic maneuvers.
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