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Fragmented Civil War Era Dispatches and Local Alarms
A garbled wartime letter bundle reports shifting shipping activity and coastal alarms. It mentions Colonel Tansy, Camp Forté, and connections to Sackett Harbor, with references to British naval movements and a general sense of disruption. Reports of banners and decorations in St Louis are noted, alongside inquiries about prisoner exchanges and a Connecticut town’s alarm over enemy ships near the river mouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agai
Tansy
Sackett' Efarbour
rHigate
Pure
Bec
Balymore
St .Louis
Groaval Willot
Leona
Louis VII
Liew
Prigadelpria
Jenemy
Will Son
Bouton
State Bank
Boston
Charleston
Kern Mail
West Inda
New York
Quangc
England
Aset
General Couran
Dover
George Prevost
Winder
Minnotetown
Connecticut
Peheleman
Baybrook
Connecticut River
Bar
Blackley Point
Guildford
Killisworth Harbour
Meigs
Killingworth
Wermard
Saykook