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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1864
Page
3
Fragmented OCR shows a rural notice from Birch County Treasurer E. B. Y Hikpieson offering farm lands and seed prices. It notes weather affecting harvesting and mentions a sale of certain property under legislative regulation with a price around 2.25 per set and other figures. The text references provision of reports on hand and extreme hopes amid a parky season.
The record honors First Lieutenant William Schuyler Woodruff, a Michigan alum and Civil War veteran, who died from a mortal wound at Petersburg on June 25 after gallant service with the Potomac Army. He enlisted in 1861, endured wounds and capture, returned to combat, and died abroad in hospital care while hoping to reach Washington to telegraph his father. He was famed for integrity, religious devotion, and scientific attainments as an early geologist.
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