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Newspaper
Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1862
Page
1
The notice explains two editions for agents and carriers, with delivery by trains and mail. City Carrier orders may be placed at the office corner Fourth and Vine. Agencies are sought in towns where none exist. clubs added expire with the era and cannot exceed eight months.
A dated report covers Major Pagh leading a cavalry movement to Somerville followed by a rapid river crossing near Elk River. It notes the Bridge over Elk River and Towns Creek Bridge, with a later focus on a campaign through Tuscumbia and Florence. Praise is given to Col. Tarchin for leadership during adverse conditions. Weather rain hindered landing from cars.
Detailed dispatch describes Hartford and Brooklyn at Head of Passes, gunboats near forts St Philip and Jackson, and a chain barrier across the river. Reports steady Union progress, Confederate loss, and ongoing naval mortar fleet actions with Porter’s squadron preparing to reduce southern strongholds. Includes casualty lists and hospital notes for City Hotel Hospital inmates.
The troops are encamped along the broad channel of the Tennessee after a rainy night. Gen. Mitchell is described as always decisive whether advancing or resting. Charleston and Memphis road now has twenty five locomotives. Mail service has been scarce since Shelbyville with Postmaster Gad aie Jr trying to improve it. promises of mail today are anticipated as they anticipate news from the bleak and barren North.
The Georgianna arrives with news from Old Point and Yorktown shows quiet at Fortress Monroe but artillery practice along the lines. McDowell’s division sits in Fredericksburg while Fredericksburg residents volatile. a Union league supports the government. Jerome Bonaparte rides through Baltimore in a novel chariot attracting crowds. Ministerial moves and school oath debates stir public life as tensions rise ahead of potential battle.
Nashville April 27 letter cites Nashville Union and American urging members of Tennessee Legislature to take an oath to support the Provisional Constitution of the Confederacy. Writer condemns oath as a purge device, a trap for loyalists, and a tool of insurrection. They applaud U S government’s return to order and critique changes in city schools and officials.
A Fortress Monroe correspondent recounts General Reno landing a brigade under gunboats, marching through bogs to destroy locks on the Great Dismal Swamp Canal. The march covered fifteen miles to South Mills where Union forces repelled a rebel defense, with rebels claiming victory and reporting higher Union losses while denying Reno’s wounding.
The Nashville Union reprints a Confederate appeal urging Tennessee farmers to increase hog breeding to avert meat shortages for the army. It warns prices are rising, beef scarce, and lambs scarce, urging readers to fatten sharp-nosed hogs and boost hog stock to feed soldiers. It also mocks editors and calls for practical action over profit.
Senator Wade introduces a bill targeting arrests of government officers. It transfers suits against officers for disloyalty linked arrests from state to federal circuits and keeps cases open through Civil War end. It also punishes those who falsely arrest officers in forts with misdemeanor penalties.
A Richmond dispatch reports famine prices and widespread destitution in the capital. Poor families of rebel soldiers face starvation while wealthier rebels hoard charity, and citizens fear imminent surrender to Federal forces amid widespread want and squalor.
The Nashville Union attacks the Cincinnati Enquirer as a traitorous Northern organ and a harmful influence on the South. It denounces the paper as a favorite rebel textbook and calls for its loyalty offense to be removed.
An April Nashville Union reflection on Capitol Hill greenery and cherished homes. The piece laments treason, praises the Confederate faction’s defeat, mourns lost families and statues, and urges rekindled patriotism as the flag returns with loyal soldiers to restore happiness in Nashville.
General Lovell, a Maryland native with Missouri ties, commanded rebel defenses around New Orleans. The piece recalls his cadet start in 1838, graduation in 1842, Mexican War wounds, and his shift from U S Army to Quitman Cuban expedition efforts. It also recounts anecdotes about “Old Seth” and Berdan’s Sharpshooters at Yorktown.
The article argues that General McClellan faced a fortified Yorktown peninsula with Magruder and Johnston prepared since the Bethel era. It cites Day’s narratives and Magistrates orders, noting Richmond’s threat, slave labor mobilization for fortifications near Williamsburg, and the expectation of a protracted, bloody siege if Yorktown is approached.
The Nineteenth South Carolina Volunteer State troops under Colonel Maraqua pass Augusta on their way west but 100 to 300 men refuse to proceed claiming they were enlisted to defend South Carolina only. Some would go if consulted. others have furloughs. Officers urge obedience. Adjutant General Gist calls them deserters. Thirty mutineers from Captain Gregg’s Graniteville command, aid by others, join the evening train carrying the Tenth Regiment under Colonel Manigault.
A London Globe Paris letter notes upper-class dissipations with balls after midnight and earlier dinners as social life shifts to late hours. The National Intelligencer recalls Adams negotiating a disliked treaty with Britain over the slave trade. Honolulu reports no agent mortgage to Britain but Kanakas seek a new loan. A Pittsburg reporter on Halleck describes him as a reserved, cautious figure at headquarters. Richmond Whig critiques Davis and administration over Johnston’s death.
Washington reports from April 29 note the War Department issuing orders for arms and clothing to recruit loyal blacks into General Hunter's Division. Banks pushes toward Staunton amid bad roads while Rebels may avoid a flank from the mountain district. Lieutenant Robinson to command battery E A Stevens at Fortress Monroe. Treasury to pay pre February debts in cash, February 40 cent, and subsequent 30 cent cash. Emancipation Commissioners meet. petitions filed and many seek guidance on procedure.
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