Year of Emancipation Reflected in Frontline Camp Notes
From Holly Springs to Vicksburg and Charleston the piece contrasts the one year since emancipation proclaimations with wartime policy. It recalls officers dining with rebel widows, a servant’s drastic choice, and a camp mood shift as freed people seek meals and safety beyond the lines, illustrating evolving attitudes and morale.
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Grant
Holly Springs
Mississippi
Attiack Vicksburg
van Dorn
Memphis
Christimas “Pon
Vicksburg
Charleston
Knoxville
Kattanooga
Goldiar
Han
Hollow Springs
Coata
Hug Shu
Daoe
Milly
Kip
Cordin
Massa Linkum
Tenneasea
Slender Waists and Health in Fashion Advice
A writer argues against tight stays, contending a slender waist harms health and temper. He warns that excessive corsetry leads to doctor bills and peevish temper, urging women to abandon stays and waist constriction for natural comfort and well being.
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Bulore
Tom Moore
News in Brief from February 5 1862
The Detroit based paper notes adjournment of the State TIégiard session with final adjournment fixed for Saturday noon. Wayne county loan bill defeated by a large majority. About 1,500 recruits passed through Cairo to join veteran regiments with 8,000 more to follow. Schleswig Holstein dispute may find amicable resolution per Europe reports. Miller Gibson addressed Ashton constituents advocating American policy. Arkansas’s new state government inaugurated on the 23d with impressive generalship. A 600 strong group of Butternuts encamped near Paris Indiana threatening raid. troops dispatched. Union forces in Western Virginia regain advantage, driving rebels away. A Florida Union movement begun. details lacking. War scare regarding France deemed a canard.
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Tiégiard
Wilk
Wayne County
Cai‘ro
Quth
Fron
Europe
Schleswig
IfTen
Miller Gibson
Ashton
Arkansas
Paris
Ind
Virginia
Florida
France
Det. Adv. & Trib
View on McClellan from Botts stirs loyalty debate
In a conversation Botts criticizes McClellan as disloyal and focused on personal ambition, asserting rebel officers view Lee as aligned with their interests. The tale interrupts with mockery of a prisoner release plot at Johnson's Island and notes Mallory’s report on British efforts to aid a Confederate breakout, including ships and officers.
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Smith
Virginia
John M. Bott
Winters
Botts
ArcClellan
Wonerg
McClellan
Beiig
Robert B. Lee
Davis
Vallandigham
Wood
Association
Canapa
Johnson’s Island
Spen
B. Mallory
Johnsson
Eric
Frantis
How Prisoners Fars at Belle Island
An extracted letter from Alonso B. Wheeler, D 111th Regiment, captured at Gettysburg and held at camp Parole Annapolis, describes conditions on Belle Island. He reports spoiled rations with bean soup infested by maggots, rice soup contaminated, and brief daily rations. He recounts executions, punishments, and abuse toward prisoners, including whipping of Black workers and a punished sick man left to die in sun. The text also covers emigration statistics to New York and a supposed Great Pyramid find, followed by a Port Hudson Christmas toast by a Black noncommissioned officer praising freedom and duty.
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Alonso B. Wheeler
D. 111Th Regiment
Gettysburg
Richmond
Camp Parole
Annapolis
Ile
Soma
Turner
Sperce
Nesro
Port Hudson
United States
New York
Michigan in Texas travelogue from Indianola camp
From Indianola Texas dated January 18 a military letter describes voyage from New Orleans aboard the steamer Alabama to Mustang Island then to Fort Experimait near Mitagonis Island. It notes skirmishes with rebels, capture of fort siege guns and nine guns, conditions in Indianola, scarce provisions, high prices in Confederate scrip, and soldiers’ meager rations as they await orders.
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Indianola
Texas
New Orleans
Alabama
Rio Grant
Corps Christi
Mustang Ins Tang
Mndar
Lone Star
Senate Oath of Office and Civil Allegiance Emphasized
The Senate voted twenty one to eleven to require the oath for members, pledging allegiance to the Constitution and swearing to bear true faith. A Quaker tale referenced a young man with access to a daughter's library and cautious social steps, illustrating moral judgment and propriety.
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United States
Mimi Theta
Alfirot
Manetates
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