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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1864
Page
1
The passage speaks of God’s love made visible on earth and in sky, a blessing wide as time. It celebrates beauty as a universal gift that transcends oppression, offering freedom to all and guiding toward divine light.
This letter from May 6 describes three companies stationed on Pickett duty near Pinckney Island with light duties and occasional danger. The writer laments Union progress, notes a freedmen school at Uitten Hout, praises black children's literacy, criticizes slavery, and mentions gunboats, mail delays, Col. H. L. Chipman’s efforts, and local agricultural activity around the camp.
A Carbondale correspondent details Copperhead outrages in Williamson and adjacent counties led by Knights of the Golden Circle. He cites murders, robberies, and planned jail break plots, naming George W. Akin and John Akin among ringleaders, with Union supporters targeted and vigilant actions by local citizens driving the Copperheads from the area. The piece argues Williamson will elect a Union majority next election.
The New York Tribune obituary recounts John Sedgwick as a veteran of the Army of the Potomac, lauding his indomitable tenacity and leadership from Peninsula to Gettysburg. It notes his birth in Geneseo in 1817, West Point, and rapid rise to command of the 6th Corps, with repeated wounding and relentless defense of the Union cause. The piece also mourns Brig Gen. Alexander S. Webb and Brig Gen. Alex Hays, both killed in action, detailing Webb’s West Point birth, Gettysburg defense, and Hays’s Mexican War service and later commands.
The report of the Commissary General of Prisoners shows totals since the war began: 1 Lieutenant General, 5 Major Generals, 5 Brigadier Generals, 186 Colonels, 224 Majors, 2,497 Captains, 5,811 Lieutenants, 16,568 non commissioned officers, 121,156 privates, and 5,800 citizens captured. On hand at report date: 29,296 officers and men. There have been 121,937 rebels exchanged against 108, with few captures since. Eight thousand enslaved men recruited from Maryland plantations have joined the Union effort. Georgia is at Liverpool for dismantling after failed prizes, while Union finances contemplate Confederate bond dynamics and large enemy capital overseas. Canal tolls in St Marys rose to $30,574.44 with 1,257 vessels, 507,484 tons through. A Cyprus rumor notes a horned woman. Lake Superior iron dominates U.S. 1864 production. National Convention arrangements in Baltimore are advancing for June.
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