Confederate Conscription Petitions and Draft Exemption Debate
The article covers Southern petitions to Congress protesting the 1862 conscription act, arguing it violates volunteer contracts and State rights. It notes a Davis administration order extending service beyond ninety days, alarms over executive power, and calls for accountability, with broader war-time draft and militia issues in Indiana and Kentucky.
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Jef. Davis
Monarch
Richmond
Confederate States Congress
Jeff. Davis
Confederacy
Army of Freemen
Confederate States
South
Enrollment orders for foreign-born residents in state history
General Order from the General Commissioner dated August 21 1562 requires white males born outside the United States, ages 21 to 45, who have resided in the U S one year and in this state six months before enrollment, and who have declared citizenship, to enroll. It also requires all foreign-born persons age 21 to 45 who have exercised suffrage in this state to enroll. J P Sippart, General Commissioner.
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General Commissioner’s Office
United States
J. P. Sippart
Nine Months Volunteers Not Accepted for War Service
A dispatch from Washington to Gov. Gamble states that volunteers for nine months will not be accepted in place of drafted men. The War Department confirms no bounty or advance pay for such terms, noting only three year or entire war volunteers have been called for by the President. Secretary Evwin M. Straxton clarifies policy.
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Siddall
Cgrneral
Inpranapolis
J.P. Lippart
Carrington
Wagoner
N. B
Washington
Richmond
McClellan
Kentucky
Abraham Lincoln
Davis
South
Fremont
Jeff. Davis
United States
Illinois
St. Louis Union
Gov. Gamble
Evwin M. Straxton
Governor Names Military Appointments Across Indiana
The governor announced appointments to several commands including 99th James L. Cathcart of Laporte as Quartermaster, 79th Major Frederick Knefler on General Wallace's staff as Colonel, 101st W. H. Conner of Noblesville, 82d Morton C. Hunter of Bloomington as Colonel, Henry Davis of Lawrence County as Lieutenant Colonel, and Charles D. Pearson as Surgeon. The Vincennes Sun misidentified Col. Charles Jones of Louisiana as son of Col. Wm. Jones, clarifying Jones’s Confederate past and Union stance. Also noted were gun boat Tuscumbia shafts being finished at Mallory & Co. and a large ice house fire at Jeffersonville near the depot destroying all ice.
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James L. Cathcart
Laporte
Frederick Knefler
Gen. Wallace
Wm. H. Conner
Noblesville
Morton C. Hunter
Bloomington
Henry Davis
Lawrence County
Charles D. Pearson
Vincennes
Charles Jones
Louisiana
Wm. Jones
Rockport
Indiana
Col. Jones
Baton Rouge
Crawfordsville
Ind
Jie
Charleston
Poisoning by Diamond Dust in Historical Letter
Reading about continent wide poisoning with diamond dust, an observer recalls London after Palmer hanged for Cook’s murder. Friends at University College say surgeons knew diamond dust caused similar symptoms to strychnine and could be mistaken for it in analysis. Palmer denied strychnine poisoning, claiming only that Cook was not poisoned with it.
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London
Palmer
Cook
Meta Surgeon
University College
Indiana draft rumors spark confusion on 30 000 men claim
An Indianapolis Journal reply explains that 30,000 volunteers have been raised toward a 300,000 volunteer and 300,000 draft plan but predicts further drafts. It notes possible 25,000 draftees overall with old regiments needing filling and discusses labor shifts as women enter wartime work. A Pensacola Zouave letter mocks civilian life amid war’s toll.
Guerrillas in New Mexico and a Home Guards Victory
A report notes a $500 reward for George T Madison captured near a military post after he and men seized mail on the Pueblo to Fort Garland route. It recalls the Brigands in New Mexico and their reorganization. A separate item recounts a Confederate confession on Richmond’s fate from a letter seized on the steamer Memphis. In Kentucky, about two hundred guerrillas encamped near the Danville boundary were defeated by sixty-two Home Guards, eight killed, several wounded, and twenty-five horses captured.
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Lincoln
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Ife
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Gordonsville
Charles Winder
Raccoon Ford
Rapidan River
Orange and
Alexandria
New Mexico
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Pueblo
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Sibley
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Antouchico
Santa Fe Gazette
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Paris
Richmond
Washington
Ward
N. Y. Post
Oldham
Pencer
Shelby
Boundary Line
Boyle
Danville
Morgan
Home Guards
Harrodsburg
Iaw
Letter From Secretary Seward On Civil War Crisis
In a letter to Francis W. Hughes chair man of the Democratic State Central Committee Seward says the nation is in a civil war not a political contest. He declines to dictate policy but notes unity is needed against disunion and treason. He imagines if free to act he would appeal across factions to rally the country. William H. Seward signs as the servant of the nation.
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Military Telegraph
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Evansville
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Journal
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Ilinois Central
Seward
Francis W. Hughes
Democratic State Central
United States
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Tom
William H. Sewarp
Wendell Phillips Denounces Union Policy Against Enlistments
Wendell Phillips writes to the New York Tribune denying he discourages enlistments. He criticizes the Union for a pro slavery oath and a policy he calls wasteful in Virginia. He says he cannot conscientiously support the Union and Administration. His words suggest enlistment rhetoric is shaped by wiser, more patriotic listeners.
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Wendell Phillips
New York Tribune
Union
Virginia
Phillips
Surrender of Claykaville Described as Corrected Account
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the published accounts of the Claykaville affair are inaccurate in major points. Eight hundred fifty armed attackers with two artillery battalions attacked while the town of seven thousand had only one hundred fifty effective Union defenders and no fortifications or artillery.
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Cincinnati
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