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Newspaper
Monroe Sentinel
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1862
Page
2
The Albany region press reports heated party shifts as anti slavery sentiment grows across free states. Citizens pledge bounties to enlist and boost government support while debates over emancipation and federal policy frame the war's political climate amid calls to preserve the Union.
Long dispatch notes shifting positions on confiscation bills, President’s proclamations, and war strategy. Reports Curtis and Union forces active in Missouri Arkansas Florida Alabama, with prisoners, stores, and ships impacted. Mentions ex President, Congress debates, Chandler remarks, and Wisconsin militia resolutions supporting volunteers and county aid.
A lively meeting in Falesville with Math E Carpenter of Milwaukee and Capt Crandall of the Twenty second regiment among speakers endorses vigorous prosecution of the war. A letter from Gary Salmon is read and resolutions urge the Legislature to legalize state scrip for 300000 pounds issued by the Governor for county use. A separate note reports a captain captured near Richmond during the action, held by a rebel regiment until his return.
A July dispatch from Lynchburg reports General Pope's forces moving toward Gordonsville with a view to a broad campaign. The telegraph notes alarm in Orange County and rumors of enemy occupation, but official updates suggest only a cavalry advance and a threatened but not captured Gordonsville. Citizens flee in panic, while officials insist on vigilance and returning troops to duty to meet the Confederate war effort.
An 1861 Wisconsin assembly session in Thursday afternoon discussed governor Salomon presiding, approving a plan to issue up to one hundred thousand dollars in state certificates to aid enlistments, dividing scrip by county wealth, and offering fifty dollars to each enlistee with twenty five dollars advanced by the United States. The resolution urged statewide publication and rail connections to bring supporters to a mass meeting, with several named officials endorsing the measure.
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