Confederate Draft and Military Duty Notes
A Confederate draft notice outlines enrollment, exemptions, and instructions for conscripts and officers. It discusses who is unfit for duty, the role of magistrates and overseers, and the rules governing exemptions, with emphasis on the conscription process and associated costs and procedures. It also mentions Saltpetre production and local wartime reporting from Georgia and Virginia.
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Grant assumes command and union army prepares move
Across Washington dispatches report General Grant has taken command and will concentrate forces from Texas to the Mississippi while Sherman and other officers reorganize. Grant plans a large mobilization with a 300000 man call as 1860s politics and gold prices frame the crisis.
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Confederate Outlook From East Tennessee Front Lines
A letter from Upper East Tennessee paints the region as fallen under Confederate advantage as Longstreet’s forces clash with Federals March 7. Federals retreat toward Strawberry Plains. local supply and morale are reported strong, while rumors place Grant sending troops into Kentucky. The Atlanta theater is discussed, with Johnston and Longstreet preparing for campaigns as Grant’s army moves through Mississippi and Alabama toward Tennessee.
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Torpedo evasions and river raids anchor late Civil War notes
A fragmented late Civil War report describes torpedoes avoided by a pilot guiding a boat with his wife and children through danger along York River Virginia. It mentions Federal raids, a Tennessee river march, and a Delaware town posting about a missing white sheepish goat.
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