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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1864
Page
1
A Northern correspondent rebuts a Southern wartime article from DeBow's Review and others. The piece condemns Southern arrogance toward Northern armies and Washington, notes failed Confederate invasions, defends Western strength, and argues Union perseverance and eventual emancipation. It praises Virginia’s role and condemns secessionists while predicting Union victory and a postwar abolition.
A patchwork of brief items notes three Androscoggin county prisoners, Whittier and Garrison correspondence, Lincoln memorial pleas, patent cures, a Fremont letter, oil discoveries, a wedding mishap, slave costs, and a preacher’s tale, all in a dated, newspaper-card style.
The act outlines quotas based on local male residents liable for military service including naval service and volunteers after draft. Exemptions cover physical or mental unfitness, active service, prior two years’ service with honorable discharge, and certain civic alienage rules. Substitutes may be used to avoid draft with limits. commutation payments do not grant lasting exemption beyond one year. Enrolled able-bodied colored men 20 to 45 are included. slave loyalty yields freedom and bounty to creditors. Also includes economic/physiological notes and advertisements mixed in.
Joe Latti, a Yankee juggler, aids in a duel with Spanish Captain Antonio Pizir at a Mahon wine shop. Latti parries pistols with tricks, uses teeth to hold bullets, and escapes after exposing his foe’s bravado. The incident fuels curiosity and fear among locals as he departs.
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