Sherman advances toward Charleston in bold three-column advance
Sherman’s army pushes toward Charleston in three marching columns with a solid supply base at Pocotaligo five miles away. Rebels offer weak resistance, unable to stop the Union thrust as the forces concentrate on a single point attack. The campaign is pitched as less dangerous than Georgia and the army remains in high spirits and ready for action.
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Sherman
Charleston
Pocotaligo
Bage
Georgia
Charleston Stands as in Saragossa, War News Stirring
Charleston defenders vow to fight inch by inch and mark every enemy advance with blood. The Mercury urges relentless resistance, while skeptics doubt success. Debate on pay for soldiers grows, rolling mills near New Albany advance to full operation in six weeks, employing about 150. The Tribune backs income tax publication for revenue and reports 1307 prisoners buried at Camp Morton, Indianapolis.
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Charleston
Saragossa
Mercury
Sherman
New Albany
Indiana Legislature Through Feb Two House Sessions Report Bills
Indiana legislative bulletin notes House committee backs deposition affidavits for military members and new bills introduced by Rice and Beckett on reform school and Black law penalties. Governors Morton, Wallace, and Elliott feature in military updates and constitutional amendment talks. Petroleum stock boom and Otter Fork Petroleum directors named. local Madisonians in oil venture with officers listed.
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Senate
Prana Ponis
Morton
Prisoner exchanges and boiler blast dot Indianapolis news
In Indianapolis Indiana Feb 7 Col A A Stevens at Camp Morton orders prep for 3000 prisoners for exchange. Capital Mills boiler explosion destroys building at 3 50 am no injuries. Gen Carrington to be court martialed at Cairo then Cincinnati. efforts to relieve him. Graysville meeting in Sullivan county reports 90 conversions and lively services during holidays. J Davis sets Feb 10 as day of fasting prayer and thanksgiving for Confederacy. Edward Fhanstock murder case appeals to Indiana Supreme Court argued Feb 4. Constitutional Amendment ratified by six states. New York movement to aid discharged soldiers. call for similar in every city.
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Wm. H. Hanaman
Sanitary Commission
9Th Indiana Battery
Evaneville
Evansville
Morton
Elliott
Camp Chase
Todiana
Lew Wallace
Middle Department
Wooley and
Catlin
Indianapolis
Inpiana Polis
Col
A. A. Stevens
Camp Morton
Gen. Carrington
Payne
Cairo
Cincinnati
Carrington
Hendricks County Refuses Bounty for Troop Call
The Hendricks County commissioners in a late session refused to appropriate a bounty for volunteers to answer the President's last call for troops. A general prisoner exchange is reported to be arranged immediately.
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Hendricks County
Draft list for Fourth Ward Madison shows 51 men enrolled
The Enrolling and Collecting Committee of the Fourth Ward Madison lists 51 draftees with names such as Birck Peter Adams Brooks F Backes Peter Bedell Andraw Brann Paul Christfield Charles Craig Herry Clegg Thomas Cassidy Patrick and many others. Total receipts and on hand funds are given, with a call for citizen contributions to cover deficits. A past item notes suspensions of newspapers and arrests for contraband news and includes brief Civil War style dispatches from New York and Richmond about military movements and cannonade on the left.
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Birck
Peter
Bet
Osina Et Bez
Adam
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Backes
Bedell Andraw
Brann Paul
Christfield
Charles Craig Herry
Clegg Thomas
Cassidy Patrick
Tees
Emmet Jacob
Seeerees
Eb Pauls
Fehmann Willian
Foltz Nicholas
Severes
Geon Joduphe
Genter Hubert
Ebby Hall
John B
Hyman Robinson
Hinds James IL
Hummel George
Hoffmann John
Harbaugh Joseph
Srteeees
Hillabold Adain
Johnson
Sydney
Kienzle Charles
Kronenterger Lehma
Klein Ni
Larrabee John Diegeese
Ledgerwood Samuel
Long Johnvys
Ol Luck Augustus
Moffett Samuel
Nodler George
Brien Johns
Orrill William G.s
Petat
Henry Iyorsss
Ritchie John
Ripberger Johness
Rimme Charler
Runcie Rey Jamea
Scheider, Jrt
Henry
Te Alford
Urpin Jefferson
Newton Eos
Ambach
Frederick
al Whitney
William B
Woeober Theodore
Weidman
Curia Saa
Natal
Cabinet Organ Adds Automatic Ballows Swell Feature
The Cabinet Organ by Mason & Hamlin gains a new Automatic Ballows Swell allowing volume control by foot action, enhancing tone and expressiveness without a separate swell pedal. The device complements the instrument’s double bellows and strong tone at modest prices.
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Wne
Mesars
Mason & Hamlin
Dwight
Journal of Music
Border Trick Prevented by New U S Law
A clever boundary house straddling the line to dodge duties is near stop as Congress enacts a law treating building on the boundary as proof of smuggling. Revenue officers will be empowered to enter and search the premises and seize goods.
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United States
Revenue Officers
Bushwhacking Murder Denial by Confederate Spy Davis
Davis, convicted as a spy, denies being Gen. McCook’s murderer and argues the act was bushwhacking not murder. He asserts the war laws justify his penalty and that capture would not convict him of murder. He cites common wartime violence and notes some officers labeled as murderers faced outcry.
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Davis
Gen
McCook
War Department orders redraw departments and troop movements
The War Department re annexes Arizona to the Department of the Pacific under Major General McDowell in San Francisco. Sherman’s command expands to include North Carolina and the Ohio Department. Cumberland areas in Mississippi Alabama and Georgia join General Thomas. Schofield to surrender Ohio HQ papers to Thomas. Thirty-three Crawford county Indiana recruits noted with a joke about marrying. Twenty-third Army Corps arrives at Alexandria Virginia for reorganizing and pay through December 31. Letters to twenty-third Army Corps via Washington reach intended recipients. A New York railroad conductor deceives a wife into marriage then deserts her. she is left penniless. Sherman’s raid toward Charleston faces marshy terrain between Savannah and Charleston, yet he adapts. Col. North released by order of the War Secretary after tampering with New York soldiers’ votes. Protests to President against commuting Indian conspirators’ sentences. Colfax sells St. Jo Register stake. he launched the paper twenty years ago. Sherman’s Savannah remark on war duration cited. A Brooklyn Connecticut divorce case examines elderly parties in court.
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Morton
New York
Winslow, Lanier & Co
Brownstown Union
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Ristine
Democratic Securities of Ristine
Anhwree
War Department
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Department of the Pacific
McDowell
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Sherjman
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Cumberland
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Twenty-Third Army Corps
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Senate
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New York Herald
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House of Representatives
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Trumbull
Abraham Lincoln
Sumner
Battle Report From Grant's Army at Reams Station
Telegraphic update from February 5 describes Union forces of the Potomac under McGregor advancing toward Reams Station. 5th corps led by Gregs’s cavalry, bridge construction at Rowanitz Creek, combat along Vaughan Road, heavy skirmishing, and repulsion of Confederate assaults. Casualties include several lieutenants and a Herald correspondent captured then escaped. The piece predicts a decisive battle tomorrow with clear, cold weather aiding movements.
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3D Pennsylvania Cavalry
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Hess
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Vaughan Road
Thatcher
3D Division
3D Pennsylvania
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5Th Corps
Sth
Murphy
59Th New York
Col. Murphy
Lieut. McFarrish
Lieut. Graham
14Th
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Wm. Libbitts
Massachusetts
A. Bartlett
New York Herald
Draft enrollments and prisoner exchanges in Civil War era NYC
From New York, February 7, it is learned about 40,000 enrolled residents cannot be found while many others are exempt by age. New names are being added and 80,000 to 100,000 may be liable to draft. Returned Union prisoners doubt a 3,000 per month general exchange and claim rebels cut our prisoners by starvation while discouraging aid. Admiral Goldsborough forms a strong fleet for Europe. Fernandina, Fla., is named for government purchase of insurrectionary-state products per July 1864 act.
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New York
Washington
Maine Legislature Ratifies Slavery Abolition Amendment
Avavsra Maine February 7 The Maine Legislature today ratified the Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. St. Louis February 7 Both Missouri Legislature chambers ratified the Federal Constitution amendment with two Senate dissenters and four in the House.
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Missouri
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Lincoln and Johnson Win Electoral College Victory Reported
The Senate and House counted electoral votes, declaring Abraham Lincoln President and Andrew Johnson Vice President. Nevada and other states were noted. Maine and several others yielded Lincoln Johnson tickets, while McClellan Pendleton carried Delaware and Kentucky. The tally showed Lincoln 233 votes, McClellan 21, Johnson 212, Pendleton 0. Lincoln elected for four years starting March 4, 1865.
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Tennedtee
Salleion and Our Weg Broars Fee Retained to Adj.
Fragmented text notes a retained fee to an adjoint or adjacent party. No clear entities or events are readable. summary limited to noting a fiscal action unclear in this damaged OCR snippet.
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Sg Tna
Adj
Seward's Diplomatic Dispatches Published
New York dispatch notes from January reports the first volume of Seward's Diplomatic Dispatches, including Seward's stance against foreign sympathy for insurgents, Maximilian's London visit for recognition, blockade running under rebel government amid cotton or bonds, Seward's complaint against Britain over neutral policy, English blockade running, and Mexico invasion linked to U.S. jealousy.
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Mexico
Unitedtates
Quebec Debates Open On Federation Scheme In Parliament
From Quebec Queste February 7 The debate on the confederation scheme opened last night in Parliament with Attorney General McDonald delivering a lengthy speech on the subject.
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Quebec
Queste
McDonald
Washington Army of the Potomac reports favorable news
Special dispatch from PanDELPaia and Washington on February 8 notes favorable military news from the Army of the Potomac, signaling potential progress in ongoing operations. The brief item confirms positive outlooks and prompts readers to await further developments.
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Pandelpaia
Evening Telegraph
Washington
Army of the Potomac
Debated Confederate Armament Bill and Election Result
In New York on February 8 the rebel House debated arming negroes with strong opposition. Jeff Davis faced abuse as Richmond papers tout Confederate leadership. A European cotton famine was forecast aiding the South while Charleston's Mercury positioned Charleston as Confederate stronghold. From Washington, congressional certification declared Lincoln elected President and Johnson Vice President, with both Houses reconvening.
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