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Newspaper
Fremont Journal
Location
Fremont, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1861
Page
9
An old wartime letter and scattered verse criticize Lincoln and defend the Union, praising self defense of a free government while mocking Confederate aims. It cites battles near Washington and Baltimore, calls for arming Southern supporters, and questions late elections amid a Maryland context.
A private Camp Anderson letter from June 1801 describes a Virginia march under heat with no sickness. The writer credits haveloas for protection and notes Washington residents offered support. Mrs Abe Lincoln and a companion visited in a carriage and presented a linen haveloak to a man.
The Boston Traveller reports South Boston Iron Foundry workers crafting heavy ordnance and projectiles for the Government with around two hundred operatives. Machinery runs 24 hours, producing twelve to thirteen inch mortars, ten inch Columbiads, and shot and shell for various guns. Guns are solid then bored, not hollow, with strict Government inspection. A nine inch Dalilyron navy gun was rejected after being cut, showing the high quality standard.
The will of Stephen A. Douglas, dated 1857 with a 1859 codicil, names Adele Cutts Douglas as guardian and directs equal division of estate between wife and two children Robert N. Douglas and Stephen A. Douglas with executors Mrs. Douglas and Daniel P. Rhodes. A Memphis Avalanche note reports a Black man hanged by a Safety committee near Silver Lake, Mississippi after thefts on Charles G. McTrutton’s plantation, possibly incited by runaway enslaved people from Douglas’s family. The piece also covers New Orleans gunboat and canal news, Bragg dispatch about two light draft warsteams, and New York Herald banking proposals and bankrupt act debate.
The article quotes a Washington letter defending Federal troop use to suppress rebellion and rebuking Southern secessionists. It praises the Massachusetts volunteers, stresses unity of country and government, and condemns disloyalists while urging Union sentiment to prevail across the insurgent states.
A June 1 letter from Nashville laments Union leadership dissolving and Southern ruin. The writer claims 19,000 troops in the state, 7,000 armed, cites lack of arms, and urges Evans Seward to maintain a strict blockade. He warns of espionage, vows self-reliance, and describes imminent river and port disruption with a dire, siege-like outlook.
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