Voice of the People and War Spirits Rise in Union Hope
Amid the war's toll, a cheer rises as government and people grow confident. The article notes voluntary enlistment, widespread resolve for the Union, and European sympathy. It highlights Kentucky and California support, England's cautious stance, and Europe’s abolitionist zeal as Heaven-appointed proof the nation will endure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conanre
Doubtleas
Southren
Sumter
Maine
California
Beavens
Army of Freedom
Union
England
Europe
Washington
America
Surrender of Lexington Ends Stand Against Rebels
The defense by Colonel Mulligan at Lexington failed after two days of thirst and siege. Federal troops numbered 3200 against 9300 rebels under Colonel Price, with Mulligan surrendering at the edge of Lexington in Lafayette County near the Missouri River. Gen Fremont was said to be assembling forces to pursue Price, with hopes Lexington would be retaken and Price captured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Mulligan
Price
Lafayette County
Missouri River
Fremont
Highry
Quincy
Ill
Liame
P. U
Home Guards
Hopson
Ater
Aving
Col Mulligan
Astruns
Grapes Praised By Local Grower For Quality
The writer credits John R Gardner for clusters of White Syria and Black Hamborg grapes from his Ferry Hill drapery. They are hailed as the finest and most delicious tasted in the country, a rich treat for the writer and his delicate apostite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R Gardner
Enq
Syria
Hamborg
Ferry Hill
Tragic Town Accident Claims Young Victim
A fourteen year old Miss Etta Harlow Pease of Edgartown Mass dies instantly when a gun discharged at a house where she visited. Benjamin Tilley recounts his son William James loaded the gun with a cap and fired accidentally after snapping it toward her head. The coroner deemed an inquest unnecessary. community sympathy and family grief accompany the fatal mishap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etta Harlow Pease
Edgartown
Mass
Benjamin Tilley
Miss Pease
Wm. James
Mr. Tilley
Young Tilley
Sylvanus Pease
Rowse P Sayer
Iris
Munroe
Bayigy
Whitford
Wm James
Abby Munro
Nan
Seeme
Rome
Jondad
Willimantic Foreman Killed In Coal Car Incident
Mr Benjamin F Whitford, foreman at Willimantic Gas Works, died instantly in a coal car accident on a train. He fell between car and wheel, suffering fatal injuries. He was a longtime local resident, husband, father of four, and son of the late Amos Whitford. His funeral was held Thursday with services by Rev Mr Ein of the Methodist church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin F Whitford
Willimantic
Conn
Whitford
Amos ‘T Whitford Hoe
Committee of ladies seeks knitted socks for volunteers
A committee of ladies announces they have a large supply of yarn to be knitted into socks for the regiments at Washington. Knitters are invited to Dr Shepard’s residence to obtain yarn, with the appeal that many brothers and husbands suffer for lack of cover while yarn is freely provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Drill Corps Forms as Town Rallies for Drill Master
Local enthusiasm grows as a committee acts to recruit a drill master for a town drill corps. Spirited young and middle aged men push to organize and promote military drill, hoping to inspire pride and discipline through steady effort.
Atlantic Monthly contents October issue short list
The October Atlantic Monthly index notes pieces by Cyril Wilde and Crawford on Richmond statues, Journal of a Privateersman, and fiction and essay pieces including Agnes of Sorrento, A Night in a Wherry, A Story of To-Day, Time's Household, What We are Coming to, Panic Terror, Our Country, and The Wormwood Cordial of History.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Moxtaty
Oxford
Cyril Wilde
Crawford
Richmond
Agnes
Sorrento
Bristol Female Charitable Society to Meet October 3
The Bristol Female Charitable Society will hold its annual meeting at Rev Dr Shepard's residence on Thursday afternoon next October 3 at 3 o'clock. The notice also mentions the 1862 Almanac from Swan Brower & Titcomb, a long-standing popular yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol Female Charitable Society
Shepard
National Fast Observed With Solemn Observance
The National Fast was broadly observed with business closures and a quiet, solemn day. Services occurred at Episcopal, Congregational, Methodist, Baptist, and St Michael's churches, uniting for prayers and scripture readings. Attendees expressed hope for divine aid and national peace, union, and love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Episcopal Church
The
Baptista
Methodist E. Church
St. Michael’s
Obituary notes and local crime in Warren
Obituaries announce the deaths of Mary P Potter aged 89 born in South Kingstown and widow of Thomas Potter, and Mary Devol aged 76, widow of Capt George W Devol, with heart disease cited. Also reported is Joseph Sparks returning on furlough, a fish dealer robbed of about 200 dollars by a lame suspect, and Briggs arrested in Boston, later sentenced to three months in Providence County Jail. all events tied to Warren and nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary P. Potter
Potter
South Kingstown
Thomas Potter Esq
Elisha R Potter
Mary Devol
Warrex
Warren
Providence
Maxfield
Precedence Journal
Briggs
Sheff Maxfield
Hold on at Munson's and Fort Albany amid Civil War tensions
The Boston Journal reports readers wonder why McClellan allows rebels to approach Munson's works and Fort Albany. Granting patience, he moves with caution toward Fort Richardson as Parrott guns threaten from half a mile away. Rebels aim to lure Union forces from Maryland to cause secession, but McClellan's restraint thwarts their plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotvina Onx
Met ‘Lellan
Munson
Fort Albany
Fort Richardson
Lbeauregard
Maryland
Potomac
Bull Run
McClellan
Vash
Prisoners of Rhode Island regiments named in list
Prisoners of the First Rhode Island Regiment and the Second Rhode Island Regiment are listed with ranks and names from Pawtucket Providence Newport and Boston locales. Notable names include Hashford Hopkins Grow Jacobs Seamans Simmons Houlmes Pullard Rogera Jeffers Bailey McCabe Bean Wilkinson Ryan Barry Smith Stetson and Lomax King noted in hospital No 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rnope Island
Riciuoxp
A P K Hashford
Amos M Hopkins
Stephen W Grow
Zachariah Jacobs
Jas Seamans
S B Simmons
Edward Houlmes
Joseph Pullard
Rhode Island Regiment
JL. T. Rogera
Frank Jeffers
Pawtucket
Fred. Bailey
James McCabe
Charles Bean
Jas T Wilkinson
Wm. B. Ryan
John Barry
Albert F. Smith
Central Falla
Jno. McCabe
S. W. Graves
Newport
Amos M. Bowen
Providence
F D. Smith
Boston
D. W. Barnes
Jec. A. Stetson
Lomax King
Washington Village
Hospital No. 2
Discovery of Human Bones at Court House Site
Workmen digging for the new Court House on the park’s northern side uncovered a deposit of human bones at the southeast corner of the enclosure. Crowds gathered, mistaking them for antiquities, and pocketed many bones before police arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evening Post
Rhode Island Regiments Exhibit California Residents
The North Star presents the elegant flu to the first and second Rhode Island regiments from Rhode Islanders living in California. They had been on exhibition before the steamer departed from San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Star
Rhode Island
California
San Francisco
Ragged Schools of London and Night Refuges Described
An observer extols Lord Shaftesbury's Ragged Schools in Field's Inn Lane as London's moral beacon amid grim slums. He recounts crowded rooms, bare clothing, and early schooling for hundreds of destitute children, alongside night refuges, meals, and employment efforts, contrasted with stark social inequality and calls for state church care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Shaftsbury
Field's Inn Lane
London
Tregret
Nowall
Frazer
Tein
Muother
Sen
England
McCrennan Inspecting Camp Conduct Encourages Troops
Washington correspondent for the Boston Journal reports General McClellan’s strict camp inspections. He orders tents dried by striking regiments on sunny days and audits soldiers lives beyond tents. Soldiers admire him, while three post office soldiers discuss his influence and discipline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Si Ben. McClellan
Bob
Belisava
Girl 7 Dies After Fall From Cart Near East Charleston
At East Charleston New Hampshire a seven year old girl daughter of Myron Buck was killed a few days since by falling from a cart and breaking her neck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Charleston
New Hampshire
Myron Buck
TSE WAR. Maritown clash and Turner dispatches.
The Times reports a Tuesday battle at Maritown New Jersey where 600 Federal troops under Cols Montgomery and Johnson fought 400 Rebels. Rebels routed with 7 killed. 100 horses, tents, and supplies captured. Col Johnson killed at the head of his men. Other items note naval actions, prisoner deaths in Richmond, Mulligan and Lexington moves, and shifting Union deployments through late September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lzavenworth
Maritown
Montgomery
Johnson
Col. Johnson
New York
Richmond
New
Maine
Stephen Russell
Chas. Chase
New Hampshire
Samuel S Weld
Massachusetts
John Leonard
Vermont
Andrew H. Brown
Alonzuy B. Bayley
Dagnestown
Arnold C. Lewis
49Th
Pennsylvania
Langhan
Washington
Rosa Winans
Fort Munroe
Fremont
Paris
Mexico
England
The
Times’ Washington Dispatch
Framans
Munson’s Hill
Alexandria
Georgina
Scott
Virginia
Baton Rouge
Jefferson City
St. Louis
Raya
Booneville
Lexington
Davis
Fortresses Burned and Rebel Fortifications Updated
Reports from Hatteras Inlet describe Union forces destroying fortifications on Beacon Island and Ocracoke Inlet, burning the Light House and removing 18 long 32-pounders and four eight inch Navy guns. Rebels abandoned the fort at Ocracoke, with heavy guns moved to New Bern destroyed, while Beaufort and Roanoke Island defenses are strengthened. News covers Lexington siege, Mulligan's surrender, and a confidential War Secretary interview noting Beauregard’s forces at Mannasas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monrosg
R. Spaulding
Hatteras
Fropeller Fanny
Ocracoke Inlet
Washington
Newbern
Roanoke Island
Coffen
Winslow
Sucquehannah
Batteras
Munrow
Beacon Island
Ocracoke
Portsmouth
Vilage
Col. Hawkins
William P. Phillips
Barwich
Maza
Rabela
Massachusette
Newberrar
Hyde
Col Hawkins
Beaufort
Fort Macon
Chickahominy
Hatteras Inleet
Cape Matteras
Bread for Toe Army Bread supply report
The national army on the Potomac is well supplied with bread. A visitor notes troops receive about 150000 loaves daily plus crackers and hard bread. Total daily consumption is 900 barrels of bread and crackers. Also reported are 11984 cases of boots and shoes shipped by rail from Boston to western states New York Pennsylvania border slave states and British Provinces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washindon
Kentucky
Bull Run
Beauregard
Mannesas
Virginia
Louisiana
Gould
Pennsylvania
TOE Army
Potomac
Army
Da‘ly
National Intelligencer
Boston
New England
New York
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Tor Orp Farner
s_ ALwaxac
Messrs. Swan
Joseph Sparks
R J Volunteers
Sparks
Phenix
McCrennan
Boston Journal
Tse
Louis
Claib Jackson
Lamar
Bank of the Republic
Savannah
Richmond Whig
New Orleans
Chandeleer Island
Ship Island
Mobile
Avansta
Momle
Lincoln
Ida
the Herald
Tax Foerta
Camp Sprague
Washinton
Hazard
G. E. Randolph
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