27 Feb 1862
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Newspaper
Fort Atkinson Standard
Location
Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1862
Page
1
The New York Mercury marks its twenty fourth year, lauded as a brilliant, versatile paper. It praises the newspaper as teacher and oracle to Americans from sea to sea, celebrating its domestic fireside charm and fearless literary leadership into 1862.
In a November farmhouse scene James Arnett pursues Millicent Brownell with Aunt Miriam Fenner observing. After a late-night trip to the Brownell home and a surprised kiss from James, Miriam hides a secret thrill and resolves to keep the rendezvous quiet, pondering Millicent’s fit as a wife.
The article credits an Irish regiment as the builders of Fort Henry and other fortifications. It details months of work by Irish soldiers who waited for pay, only to receive little or none after a paymaster arrived. They faced high clothing costs and received meager wages, sparking threats of vengeance and desertion at first sign of combat.
A reflective piece on young women and their chosen roles as future wives, noting pride in ignorance of household tasks yet acknowledging the need for practical skills. The author compares romantic notions with life's hard realities and hints at social expectations in domestic life.
The piece argues the capture creates a safe highway into the Confederacy, with the Memphis and Charleston railroad near Florence as a main rebel artery. It envisions Union army movements through Tennessee into Virginia, warning of Nashville and Bowling Green, and urges a grand forward push using this new avenue.
A released Union prisoner recalls a night in Richmond after Manassas. An Irish woman at his window offers bread meat and cakes with a blessing, declaring she is from New York. He notes the kindness amid hardship and reflects on wartime loyalties.
A reflective Rural New Yorker piece recalls a Christmas sleighing party with old friends, memories of youth, and missing loved ones. It muses on aging, the pull of the past, and the belief that true beauty lies in honesty and moral truth.
A quirky customer asks to bid at an auction as the hammer falls and departs after a brief exchange. The text riffs on warfare, Sabbath, truth, wealth, perception, and social quirks with aphoristic musings and clipped dialogue.
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