England and France in relation to the United States
Reports from Washington state the administration will take unmistakable measures against any external aid to the seceded states. Britain faces a cabinet split over cotton interests versus principle while France weighs involvement, with Louis Napoleon pressing for a side in the conflict. The piece notes rising Democratic and Whig sentiment in New York’s army and Indiana urging full federal support to suppress rebellion.
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England
Europe
Cabinit
France
Russell
Palmerston
John Russel
South
Grece
Ant England
John Russell
State Department
Louis Napoleon
M. Thouvenel
Italy
United States
Russia
Leralt
Unlucky Friday in Civil War Events Cited
The Chicago Times notes a pattern of major wartime actions occurring on Fridays. It lists bombardment of Sumter, Baltimore troubles, St. Louis riot, Sewall's Point attack, Alexandria assault, and Ellsworth's shooting as all on Friday.
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Chicago Times
Sumter
Baltimore
St. Louis
Sewall
Important Movements of the Army to Crush Rebellion
The New York Herald outlines a plan with large troop concentrations at Fortress Monroe to strike Norfolk and recapture seceded property. It describes simultaneous offensives on Harper’s Ferry and Alexandria, with a western push from Wheeling and a Mississippi drive toward New Orleans, culminating in Montgomery.
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Butler
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Alexandria
Richmond
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Ohio
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Mississippi
Cairo
New Orleans
Pensacola
Bragg
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Ielmrond
Montgomery
Charleston
Fort Sumter
New York Herald
Indignant Troop Company Holds Edinburg Demonstration
A disbanded troop company demonstrates in Edinburg Tennessee on Tuesday night led by Capt Keay. He denounces Grover nor Morros for duplicity and says he regrets supporting the Governor at the last election. The meeting ends with the Governor burned in effigy amid Republican ranks.
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Edinburg
Johnson County
Keay
Grovernor Morros
Wisconsin Governor's war message denounces traitors and rebellion
The document quotes Anexagere W. Raspar urging a stern end to the war and calls for hanging or exile of traitors. It claims the Supreme Ruler smiles on the loyal, law loving people resisting secession and describes armies as instruments of divine vengeance against rebellion.
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Wisconsin
Charleston
W. Raspar
Telegraphic dispatches seized by United States Marshal
Mr. Murry, the United States Marshal, seized 85 000 telegraphic dispatches at the New York office. The text includes varied reports from The Chicago Times and The News about wheat payments, currency value, and gold, with references to Confederate Arkansas troops and Arkansas crop reports.
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Murry
United States
New York
Draft Dodger Debate Recalled in Private Conversation
A man asks if he should be drafted and his wife answers that she would get a substitute for him. The exchange shifts as the couple changes the subject.
Beecher defies rebels with home front duties stance
A New York Times correspondent recalls Harper's Ferry camp observations andKentuckians under Col Duncan traveling without arms. The Texas Episcopal Convention at Austin debates secession and plans a July delegation to Montgomery to decide on northern church ties.
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Braxtrox Deweax
New York Times
Harper's Ferry
Sass
Col. Duncan
Louisville
Harper’s Ferry
Tennessee
Lynchburg
Reniarots
Texas Episcopal Convention
Austin
Gregg
Montgomery
Alabama
Printer’s ink to be contraband of war say secessionists
The piece notes that printing ink will likely be banned as contraband of war. It claims no ink manufactory exists south of Philadelphia and asserts the seceded states will lose their daily journals if the government enforces restrictions on the so called magic compound of printer’s ink.
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Philstelpha
Abolition of Slavery in the War Era
The piece argues that ultra Republicans aim to end slavery through the war and cites an early New York Tribune account of Vesey's Insurrection. It contends slavery endures, noting slaveholders fear a looming reckoning as events unfold and warn of a tempest threatening the South’s system.
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The
New York Tribune
Denmark Vesey
South Carolina
Probable Trouble in Kentucky Stirring South
Report from Mayfield claims a district convention to weld a Southern Confederacy in the western Kentucky area. Spies say secession ordinances may be used to bind seven counties to the Confederacy while Confederate troops mass near Union City and Paducah. The plan allegedly aims to force a clash with Federal forces at Cairo to pull Kentucky into civil war.
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Mayfield
Ribis
Wiese Uiariet
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Union City
Teananen
Pillow
Cairo
Hhentucky
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Merchants of Peoria Shut Up Shop Over Currency Crisis
In Peoria Illinois merchants suspend business until currency issues are settled. Emigration from the South floods the Nashville road with travelers as observers link the exodus to political unrest. The violent Jacobinical spirit is blamed for undermining liberty in the seceded States.
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Peoria
Ill
Nashville
Privateers Reported Active on Atlantic Coast and Gulf
A Jat Davie dispatch notes privateers at work along the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. The brig Fusha Doane arrived in Boston from Santillo River Georgia, claiming capture by a privateer schooner and transport to Hranswick. The Doane’s captain reports the schooner Linmy seized and confiscated as a prize.
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Gulf of Mexico
Fusha Doane
Boston
Santillo River
Georgia
Hranswick
Bho
Brown
Linmy
Fugitive slave recapture figures prompt Indiana protest
The Jeffersonville Democrats report more fugitives caught on the Indiana side and sent back to Kentucky in the last three months than in any similar ten year span. Kentucky offers 150 dollars for each captured runaway. A Nash ville company advertises, urging freemen to enlist with a Nashville stormen unit. The crop plan features a straightened scythe, hook, revolver with a uniform of black pants, blue shirts, crimson collar, black hat bearing a skull and bones.
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Assorscixa
Congress
He Aegislature
Teffersonville
Ind
Indiana
Kentucky
Jeffersonville
Fce
Nashville
Senn
Nashville Union
Stormen
Confederate Government Seeks World Recognition
The Jackson Mississippian calls the Confederate Government determined to prove it can sustain itself as a separate nationality before any international recognition.
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Jackson Mississippian
South
Rhode Island Governor Sprague to wed Miss Chase
The Tasnton Gazette hints that Governor Sprague of Rhode Island will soon marry Miss Chase, daughter of Salmon P. Chase, who served as Secretary of the Treasury. The report arrives amid speculation on the union.
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Vaxette
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Rhode Island
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Salmon P. Chace
the Treasury
Bombardment Progress Report From Sant ZER Siege
During the Sant zer bombardment 1 501 shots and 988 shells were fired from South Carolina batteries as combat operations continued.
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Santzer
South Carolina
Proclamation Warns Brits to Stay Neutral in Civil Strife
Queers Victoria calls on British subjects to remain aloof from the North and South conflict while Governor Morton informs the President that a thousand shipwrights and bast builders in Indiana river towns can be used to construct gunboats for service on the Lower Mississippi.
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Indiana
Forty Four Steamboats Idle and New Orleans Flooding
Forty four steamboats lie laid up at Cinchysnati with no immediate prospects. S74 portion of the steamboat landing near New Orleans is underwater as the river rises rapidly on Tuesday. Prayers are offered for the ailing Douglas amid a churchgoers’ lament. The Jacksonport Herald notes a powder mill on White River now producing 3,000 pounds daily and another to come online within a month capable of 1,000 pounds per day.
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Ark
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