Reconnaissance to Dalton opens Four Days of fighting
Special correspondence from February 23 recalls a planned, wide move from Chattanooga toward Dalton to prevent Confederate reinforcements to Longstreet and Polk. The objective was to probe Dalton’s strength and secure potential occupation if weakened while ensuring Union forces deter Confederate movements.
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Dalton
Longstreet
Dinsbop Polk
Daltas
Chattanooga
Emoire
Fourteenth Army Corps
East Tennessee
Teenel Hill
Battield
Chicamauga
Coloma
Desolate Ringgold to Tunnel Hill Campaign Retold
A Civil War correspondent recounts the Ringgold Gap retreat to Ringgold and Tunnel Hill, the burning of Ringgold, the costly fight on Taylor’s Ridge, the rebel assaults, and the Union counter movements led by Harrison, Morgan, Cruft, and Baird. The narrative details terrain, casualties, civilian distress, and the consolidation of Union gains across Rocky Face and Tunnel Hill, ending with the bloodied but decisive advance toward Dalton.
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Ringgold
Taylors Ridge
Rees
Tunnel Hill
Colison
Boone
Kentucky
Wood
Taylor's Ridge
Tunnel Hill Ridge
Johnson
Baird
Tannel III
Crufts
Rocky Face
Leveland
Dalton
Grose
Cleveland Road
Vally
Simonson
Cruft
Sth
Indiana
Ange
Rebe
Turchia
Ciavely
Letters from Knoxville Marching and Countermarching
Special correspondence from Knoxville reports ongoing Confederate maneuvers near Strawberry Plains and Sevierville, with Union reconnaissance and counteractions. Longstreet massing forces on the Holston and French Broad approaches, while Kentucky politics split between Union loyalists and Copperheads, urging vigorous Union comradery and defense of the state.
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Cincinnati Gazette
Knoxville
Longstreet
Sevierville
Strawberry Plains
Armstrongs Ferry
Holston
Stra Rey Plains
Nct
Love's Station
Battle near Lake City Ends in Heavy Rebel Victory
Dispatches report a ferocious 3 hour fight fifteen miles beyond Sanderson on the Jacksonville Tallahassee line. Union forces under Gen Seymour retreat with many wounded after losing 500 to 1300 men and five guns despite stiff resistance from regiments including the 8th and 150th New York and 12th Massachusetts. General Hardee on the field. casualties and prisoners listed with Hamiltons battery officers wounded.
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4Th
8Th Tennessee
Librell
Armstrong
Evierville
Haskell
Caronel Kline
Sd Indiana Cavalry
George F Herriott
Oace
Werrod CIA
G. J. Cleavers
Lichards
J W Royce
John E. Deupree
Leonard Steiner
N.mathers
Capt. Herriott
Martin
Longstreets
Noxville
Teakahoma
Bragg
Hardee
Fulton
Port Loyal
Genars Seymour
Fiori
Gilmore
Vulton
Seymour
Sanderson
Jacksonville and
Tallahassee
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
New York
Friebiy
Unitates
Reed
Hamiltons Battery
Hamilton
Myrick
Bag
Florida
New Youk
Lake City
Nored Socce
Wedges
Hilton Head
Jacksonville
Hamiltons
Sherpebooters
Fortieth Massachusetts Mounted Infantry
Charleston
Heauregard
Extraordinary corn yield claimed by Fred Hedell
The article reports Fred Hedell of Ashtabula county Ohio produced an extraordinary corn harvest. On eight acres he averaged 204 bushels of ear corn per acre with a best quarter acre yielding 60 bushels. Converted to shelled corn the rate is 1.65 bushels per acre and 40 bushels for the top quarter.
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Fred. Hedell
Ashtabula County
Miami Country
Kentucky
Kentucky Legislature closes with era defining session
Kentucky politics wrap up as the Legislature ends a pivotal session. The piece lauds some members for noble service and condemns others for betrayal, naming Whittaker Pratt Goodloe Weir Lanck Hamilton Henton among those criticized. It notes unfinished business and key acts including federal resolutions and the failed bid to elect a Senator.
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Kentucky
Legislature of
Whittaker
Pratt
Meyers
Guthrie
Bell
Acta
Union Party of State
Soldiers Home Bill Draws Attention in State Legislature
State capital reports a push for a soldiers home bill to care for injured veterans, funded by the state with a three-trustee board and governor approval, plus provisions on pensions and bounties, with broader bills on toll roads and public printing debated.
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Shermans Expedition Reports From Selma and Mobile
Feb 26 27 dispatches relay Shermans expedition toward Selma Alabama facing opposition from Portest Adams Lee and Rhody. Sherman halts due to delays by Col Warring with New Jersey and Pennsylvania regiments as rumors suggest a retreat toward Memphis. Naval notes from Mobile say Farragut's squadron may attack Fort Gaines while 20 000 troops and two ironclads loom in the harbor.
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Selma
Smith
Fastern
Sherman
c.Mesrum
Vicksburg
Shermeno
Alabama
Portest
Adams
Lee
Rhody
West Point
Warring
New Jersey
Pennsyllvania
Memphis
Wasnisotos
Senate Military Committee Backs Pleasanton Nomination
Washington notes report that General Pleasanton is recommended for confirmation as commander general with no other vacancies. The Treasury Controller sent a letter to the Wage and Means Committee proposing loan amendments to the National banking act. Banks in New York seek additional legislation to participate in the act’s benefits. A subcommittee plans to revise the Representative. Washburne heads to Chattanooga for nomination review. A slight tax on crude petroleum and a likely tax on leaf tobacco are anticipated. The President is said to be issuing a new amnesty proclamation.
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Wasinctos
Senate Military Committee
Mesers, Hooper, Fenton
Stebbins
Washburne
Tony
Chattanooga
Rants
Retaliation feud over Colonel Shaw death in North Carolina
From New York Feb 27 correspondence between Generals Peck and Pickett over the execution of rebel negro soldiers for alleged murders. Peck encloses the President order of retaliation and says he will refrain from executing rebel soldiers until Pickett acts. Pickett vows to kill any captured negro, Confederate officer, soldier, or citizen if he catches one. He cites forty five hundred U.S. officers and men under his control and promises retaliation if Peck acts.
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Cincinna
Gasette Tesex
Grometa
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Stanley
East Tennessee
Dandridge
Longstreet
Johnstons Army
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Johnston
Callex
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Long Street
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Col. Harrisons
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Picket
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United States
Solier
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Re-Enlisted Troops and Cotton Arrivals Mixed With Mayfield Raid
Report from Cairo on February 27 details a guerrilla raid near Mayfield Kentucky with property damage and a casualty. The piece notes new recruits from Iowa and Indiana heading south, the steamer Dickey delivering thirty bales of cotton to St Louis, and the Seventh Wisconsin Battery veterans en route home.
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Cairo
Iowa
Indiana
Dickey
St. Louis
Wisconsin Battery
Richmond Enquirer reports Grant decisive in Georgia and Alabama open
The Richmond Enquirer cited in the Milamelpitle Press notes Grant’s victory over Johnston. Georgia and Alabama are open to Lincoln’s forces, and Mobile is predicted to fall without trouble. Marshal Kane arrives in Richmond and is made colonel. draft rider indicted for treason amid troop movements. The Twentieth Regiment sails for Portugal next week. Andrews the rioter faces treason charges.
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Milamelpitle
Richmond Enquirer
Rf Grant
Johnston
Georgia
Alabama
Lim
Mobile
George P. Kane
Marshal Kane
Baltimore
Richmond
Voys
Portugal
Alabama at Large Still At Large In Peru News
Advices from the Peruvian minister in Japan dated January 15 report the Alabama still at large as of that date. The State Department relayed the message noting the ship’s status remained unresolved amid ongoing international discussions.
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Alabama
State Department
Japan
River News Weather and Rising River Levels
River runs five feet above the pier mark with water rising as of February 27. Weather remains cloudy over Proveneng with little wind and cool temperatures.
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River News
Proveneng
Senate Confirms Western Paymasters and Hospital Chaplains
The Senate approves additional paymasters for volunteer forces listing: Ohio Wellington Vroopman West Virginia Cham p Chase Wisconsin Eh Cengeee Joseph Tilden Illinois Marek Grover Indiana Henry Grant Michigan John B Herrick Ohio Josiah Miller Kansas William G C Lupton Indiana John K Dalman Ohio I Bs Turney ife Bihan B Reynolds Indiana George W Candee Iona Egbert T Smith Ohio A Hamilton Milania James H Lee Wisconsin John N Scott Indiana Gee B Hagin Iowa John W King Ohio Hark Hollingshead Ohio Joseph Harris Wisconsin Warren C Emmerson Obie Taowaes J Sanders Iowa Thomas Crawford Minn M.& M Gunchie Ohio Horace UH Harm Wisconsin Henry Eines Wisconsin G W Lop ving Indiana W S Lamb Indiana Gee Ration J J Nelson Michigan Walter K Scott Indiana D Smith Minnesota W M Smith Kediaoa Albert P Shreve Ohio Thomas E Williams Missouri Charles A Warnet Migheeota Peyamyter in the regular arm Nina Wright Illinois Rodney Smith Ken tucks To be Hospital Chaplains Henry Stevens West Virginia A M Beetty Ohio Simese I Iver Hine D Mckee Indiana Wm K Talbot Kentucky Joseph A Stephen Indiana J A Heyden Tennessee Manuel J Goncalves Tennessee Philip McKim Missouri James Schofield Iowa Chauncey W Fitch Indiana John Vobey Illinois
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Ohio
Wellington Vroopman
West Virginia
Champ. Chase
Wisconsin
On Eh
Cengeee
Joseph Tilden
Llinois
Marek Grover
Indiana
Henry ©. Grant
Michigan
John 8. Herrick
Josiah Miller
Kansas
William GC. Lupton
John K. Dalman
I. Bs. Turney
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Simese I
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Hine
D. McKee
Wm K Talbot
Kentucky
Joseph A. Stephen
A. Heyden
Tennessee
Manuel J. Goncalves
Philip McKim
Missouri
James Schofield
Iowa
Chauncey W. Fitch
John Vobey
Iilinoia
Real Estate Sales From Shenandoah Court House
Sheriff sale records show numerous parcels sold on Congress Street and neighboring avenues for various prices per acre and per foot. Transactions include lots on Front Street, Lock Street, and High and Oregon streets, with values ranging from modest ground rents to thousands, plus leaseholds and improvements. proceeds credited to sanitary funds and local committees.
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Lowing
Court House
Congress
Kilgour
Randall Brown
South Pifle
Earl Atreet
Lorgworth
Mn Wnout Hille
Matsod M. Larth
Prreee
Lena
Edison Head
Crawford
Marg
Rahem End
Lews
Ilamilton Road
J. T Wright
Alemennid
Sol
Tankee
Wee
JF. U. Jedeldey Farade
Front Street
Nace
Sim
Giver Bath
Lock Street
T G. Gallagher
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Oregon Atreeta
Coat Street
Wo Ulemen
Sergeant
Freeman Etreeta
Mitchell
Jona
Contra Avenue
Fourth
Vallick
Avienna
Von
LAW REPORTS AND COURT CASES IN MEMPHIS AND LAWRENCEBURG
Legal proceedings cover insurance dispute over fire loss with Rome Insurance Co and Prev tal Team berone Je vos Matratvs. Case concerns fire caused goods loss and policy terms about timing of action. Also Common Pleas case over land accretion near Guard's Island where ownership between plaintiff and defendant hinges on river course change. Sentences note contempt and a two year sentence for grand larceny case.
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Prevtal
Berone Je Vos Matratvs
Dusean
Rome Insurance Co
Ferhver
Memphis
Ernte
Bret M Pishin
Pluautt
Toarborough
Common Pleas
M D. Hayes
Walterman
Headington
Guard
Gat
Java
Coline Sed
W. KB. Cabdwel
T. Power
Isessey
Lawrenceburg
Hevone
H. Sete
Pew
John Grady
Funeral of Colonel Tockingham Linked to local ceremony
The town recalls the funeral of Colonel Micl Tockingham with services at Odd Fellows Hall and a procession to Linton Grove Cemetery. Five companies from Cincinnati and three from the First Ohio Heavy Artillery joined the procession amid injuries from a recent shooting on Pow and Kectt streets.
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Ulty
Centerrille
Neohn Uffutt
James Pointe
Kenton Conety
J. W. Beye
Kentucky
Covington
Odd Fellows Hall
Pow and
Kectt
Caplaneorge Stacey
Rapilly
Mic! Tockingham
Ly & Sra
Membre
Ty Cou
Odd Fellowes Lal
Cincinnati
Ohio Heavy Arslery
Linton Grove
Local youths named in stray arrest report
A fragmentary police note lists several youths including Aeon Graytor Romer Ruste Robert Brittian Pres De vert Win Keider Henry Brockhof and James Thomas. It mentions a fourteen year old implicated in an incident involving hogs and a farm stable and a charge of setting free animals.
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Cpg
Aeon Graytor
Romer Ruste
Robert Brittian
Pres Devert
Win. Keider
Henry Brockhof
James Thomas
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