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Newspaper
Linn County Register
Location
Marion, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1863
Page
1
Union Meetings will be held in Linn County townships at listed places and dates where patriotic addresses will be delivered by candidates on the Union Republican ticket or others. Opposing party candidates are respectfully invited to attend to discuss current political issues.
The Iowa 2nd Cavalry veterans issue resolutions condemning Gen Tuttle for accepting Copperhead nomination and for endorsing Democratic platform and conscription critique. They question his stance and warn loyal supporters may abandon him as they urge scrutiny of his political conduct. They also note a Tennessee unit's rebuke and compare his standing to that of Jefferson Davis.
Telegraphic summary reports Rosecrans' Chattanooga victory signaling rebel power decline in East Tennessee. Gilmore shells Charleston with 300 pound Parrotts as Burnside presses up the Valley. Sibley’s expedition undercuts by Indian laughter. British inaction looms. Diplomatic moves in Mexico and French plots expand as union forces advance. The telegraph notes Rosecrans end of Tennessee operations.
The Nashville Union reports Governor Andrew Johnson’s remarks at a Capital gathering after Fort Sumter. He urged eradicating slavery, backing immediate emancipation if feasible or gradual if not, arguing emancipation would end civil war and boost Tennessee’s prosperity. The crowd cheered as he linked policy to national unity.
The Nashville Union reports on Confederate and Hayti currency values, noting that gold trades for sixteen Confederate paper dollars or twelve Uncle Sam dollars in Richmond, while May 1st exchanges yield twelve dollars and four cents. It highlights Hayti’s stronger currency and compares treasuries.
An anecdote from a steamboat on the Mississippi recounts a white soldier addressing a Black guard, asking if he is a soldier and whether his colonel is a nigger, to which the Black soldier responds with a taut retort highlighting the absurdity of the question.
From Charleston on September 7 reports the New Jersey has arrived after leaving Charleston on the 30th. Operations progress favorably with a general engagement on the 1st between ironclads and Forts Sumter Wagner and Moultrie. Oscar C Badger, Fleet Captain, loses a leg to a shell. Four monitor vessels prepared for action near Fort Sumter. Land batteries fire day and night. The bombardment of the city not resumed yet but expected soon. General Gilmore and the army remain in high spirits and confident of success.
A prisoner named Sunshawhadkerts Apport, jailed in St. Louis for treason, writes to Missouri guerrillas begging them to end Lustinhacking. He says the Otter comes from a good source and acknowledges the folly of such warfare after a year in jail.
The piece argues soldiers in the army of the Mississippi cannot vote for their preferred candidates while in service. It cites Gen Grant’s reply and notes Gen Rosecrans supports allowing soldiers to vote. It ends recalling Gen Gilmore of Ohio and a Sunday School anecdote about Quartus Gilmore pursuing West Point.
The Richmond dispute centers on Rev MD Hoge's London Bible donation to the Confederacy. Directors doubt the project’s motives amid claims slaves would not be allowed to read. The committee questions the grant and Hoge’s honesty, with broad criticism of slaveholding leaders.
The article notes General Burnside safely in Knoxville with his army convoy and a secured rail corridor between Virginia rebels and Mississippi Valley Confederates. It argues Confederate prospects grow bleaker as Tennessees East region becomes a strategic vulnerability and Burnside appears poised to press the advantage.
A soldier from the 8th Florida Volunteers visited the Morris Island Sanitary Commissioners tent claiming no illness since service and no aid received. He offered to donate two dollars to the commission funds and pledged future donations with each pay day.
A proposal to publish a Weekly and Tri-Weekly journal in Knoxville East Tennessee with subscriptions two dollars annually paid in advance. The editor vows independence from party factions, supports the Federal Union, and aims to resume publication after past suppression by Confederate authorities.
The document touts the value of preservation at great cost and invites publishers to insert the prospectus and mail the paper to Cincinnati for an exchange. W. G. Buowrtow endorses the plan, noting benefits despite the bold past claims.
From Dubuque Times notes a cow leaped onto a moving train near Peosta and rode the rear car. Conductor adds a cow catcher after the episode. Farther reports describe Civil War era bombardments and flag of truce events at Charleston and Fort Sumter with casualties and ongoing artillery exchanges.
Correspondents question suppression of General McClellan’s report and its accompanying documents. The two boxes of material arrived at the Adjutant General’s office about three weeks ago and may require three quarter volumes for publication. The author argues the work is a public literary vindication rather than an official war record and suggests Harper Brothers publish it rather than the War Department.
The document notes a prosentation of a cross from a frogal shell taken at Stone River to Gen Rosecrans by Oak Ind Vols. It then presents the General's reply to that occasion.
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