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Newspaper
Lancaster Gazette
Location
Lancaster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1864
Page
3
The issue includes ads for merchants and services, tax enforcement notes, and draft enrollment orders. It reports Internal Revenue guidance, local deaths from spotted fever, and a notice from the County Fund about bounty payments. It also carries state and county enrollment instructions and a message from Commissioner Martin Kagay.
A Washington dispatch reports Grant's army advancing with reinforcements and supplies. Field notes claim 30,000 volunteers clothed equipped and moved to positions, with several thousand reinforcements sent elsewhere. Rebels retreat after May 28 with captured mail and gold shipments to Baltimore New York Boston and Philadelphia.
Public notice outlines re payment terms for bounty fund bonds, including interest options, tax exemptions, and subscription details. It lists payment schedules March and September, states bonds are payable in gold or greenbacks, and notes subscription acceptance by multiple national banks in Cincinnati and nationwide networks.
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