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Cholera, military reshuffle, and war news mix in dispatches
A telegraphic summary reports cholera scourge on the plains with units at a post suffering 82 total deaths. It notes Gen Sickles being relieved and Gen Canby assigned to command the 2d Military District, with orders to enforce laws. Additional items include Georgia University suppression, Prussian manning for northern war, and various railroad and local incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Hayes
Kansas
José
Sickels
Edward R. Canby
2D Military District
Congress
Military Department of the
South
North Carolina
South Carolina
Daniel EH. Sickles
20 Military District
Secretary of War
Andrew JohNson
Pope
Georgia University
Stuttgart
Prussia
Confederation of the North
Brownlow
India
Abyssinia
Wm. Napier
Theodorus
Napier
Times
Francis Lieber
Chicago, Alton & St. Louis
Mss
Union Pacific Railroad
Augusta
Mary Greer
Germantown
Tcero
Cincinnati
la Payette
Indianapolis
la Fayette
Fnd
Ouetied
Insuutance
Judge Kinney
Pionner
Omaha
Ife
Indian Territory
Fort Gibson
Fort, Arbuckle