14 Oct 1864
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Newspaper
Dubuque Democratic Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1864
Page
1
A damaged line of text shows an advertisement offering goods and credit terms with prices and payment options. It mentions a price of 082,00, phrases about cash in advance, and references to a Towrat ante ag. The legible parts imply a small retail sales notice with unclear item descriptions and payment details.
Fragmentary text lists locations and dates across many counties and cities with scattered party and candidate references. It appears to be an OCR error outlining political notices and election timing rather than a coherent report.
A muddled, fragmented text evokes themes of artistry, labor, status, and longing. Nonspecific phrases drift with fleeting references to a painterly or musical scene, a detour from social mobility, and a sense of distance from shared meaning.
Poetic sermon fragment urges kindness and pity for the sorrowing. It laments death and loneliness, questions worldly wealth, and extols friendship and love as true beauty. The piece depicts hearts enduring pain and the healing power of sympathy.
In Stanton era dispatches the Mobile Tribune discusses arming enslaved people for military service. The report notes political maneuvering over slave troops and references victories and captures in the Shenandoah border. It mentions Gen Lomax among prisoners and a Union cavalry pursuit incident ending with a surrender demand.
Muscatine Courier cites Grant and minow letter claiming Lee's army dwindled to about 60,000 with 53 regiments deserted since August 6. It argues 53,000 men fled by August 16 and predicts Lee, with 7,000 left, will soon be isolated near Richmond awaiting possible assassination.
A garbled OCR snippet mentions Aone ine ene and a quote about a cruise on the coast of New England, crediting Robert Cus qurst and Southworth with titles including The Mother in Law. The text appears to be a worn page listing authors and works with misspelled names.
The notes draw interest from August 15 and TANAE pays interest from the note date to deposit date. Parties agreeing twenty five thousand dollars and upwards are allowed a commission of one quarter of one percent.
A Confederate prisoners' draft from Savannah outlines six points: love for the Union, a request to President Lincoln to inspect conditions, protest at Confederate duty toward prisoners, claims of 10 000 deaths in six months, demand for clothing and blankets, and calls for timely exchange. The document argues that prisoners suffer regardless of party and asks for full government explanation.
The text contrasts Lincoln's proclamation of freedom with claims of military necessity in war and governance. It argues youth resistance, prolonged conflict, debt security, taxation, and oppression as alleged necessities, while condemning suppression of press freedom and civil rights. It ends warning that electing Lincoln would yield military despotism as necessity.
The Tribune notes a possible narrow union majority on the Pennsylvania home vote while World dispatches claim Democrats won the state by 6 000 to 10 000. It also covers a James army headquarters dispatch dated Oct 10 noting quiet lines with enemy shelling near Petersburg, and a meeting with three Richmond officials and Butler. Dutch Gap work progresses favorably.
Pauaperula reports Union backers hold an 8,672 edge in 43 counties and a 1,843 margin in the remaining 23 last year. Total apparent Union lead stands at 10,510 with further home-vote gains projected. Democratic gains tally 1,232 in AT counties. lines down east of Freeport hinder further updates.
A Buffalo man reports his son writing from Petersburg area about a Civil War election rumor. He claims the 79th New York and the Yuh corps divisions largely backed McClellan with 1285 votes to 12 for Lincoln and 1 for Fremont, noting ballots found and boxes hidden during the event.
A dated Sept 5 1864 letter from an Albany boy describes marching with knapsacks to a doctor for marking. One boy fainted and another collapsed in line while being marked. The note also mentions Confederate papers altering Lincoln and Johnson names to McClellan and Pendleton and cites various newspapers weighing the McClellan option.
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