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Newspaper
Dubuque Democratic Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1864
Page
1
Dispatches from Washington describe Confederate forces striking toward Tennessee and Virginia, with Lee to reinforce Richmond if needed. Reports claim Union countermeasures, Sherman's march, and rumors of skirmishes near Macon and Savannah, plus financial markets reacting to war news and a New York fire loss.
A Paris crowd watched as a man defaced the Statue of Dalle in the Vlaca de la Concorde during the day. He severed the nose, damaged the arm and foot, and claimed the figure resembled his wife, provoking police intervention and arrest.
Correspondents describe starving women and children in the Shenandoah Valley after confiscations and harsh winter conditions. They recount burned homesteads, stripped livestock, and ruined provisions, with calls for federal action and relief amid Civil War operations.
A fragment from a 19th century paper recounts a speech in a city hall where a speaker predicted enslaving women of the South to humbly serve, provoking loud applause from attendees. The Rochester Democratic periodical warns Copperheads face public confrontation at City Hall with Rev Dee Robison leading a skinner act against dissenters.
Reports from New York describe a major incendiary fire at the mahogany yard of Oden & Co on Hubert Street destroying a large block and valued at 150,000 dollars. Simultaneously, dispatches from Washington discuss General Sherman and Pra Pryor in Georgia, with claims of captured territory and uncertain reports from Macon Milledgeville Augusta and Savannah.
New release notes promote Among the Pines and My Southern Priends by Robert Caster. A summer cruise on the New England coast is highlighted under Quest publishing.
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