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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1863
Page
1
A Ripley peace meeting report attacks Copperheads and a secret Knights of the Golden Circle, alleging treason and political manipulation. The piece defends loyal Union action, condemns abolitionist and Know Nothing rhetoric, and questions Indiana politics while discussing third mileage votes and New Hampshire results.
Confederate currency buys little as gold climbs to 356 and silver to 3.25 per unit in Dixie. Richmond reports bread at 25 cents per half pound loaf in Charleston, with flour near 65 per barrel. Mobile notes flour at 73 per barrel on the 21st, with price hikes seen due to transport failures.
The 3d Ohio Cavalry lists promotions and changes including Maj James W Paramore to colonel vice Ahan resigned Major Graee Howland to major vice Paramore Captain Henry GC Miner to captain vice Marvin dismissed 1st Lieutenant James B Luckey to captain vice Howland promoted 2d Lieutenant Elih Isbell to 1st Lieutenant vice Luckey promoted 2d Lieutenant James W Lykins to 1st Lieutenant vice Bliven resigned Edwin P Toll to 1st Lieutenant vice Miner promoted 2d Lieutenant Frederick Brenerd to 1st Lieutenant vice Center discharged O B Thomas Nunan to 2d Lieutenant vice Isbell promoted 5. William S Furbay to 2d Lieutenant vice Lykins promoted George Watson to 2d Lieutenant vice Brenerd promoted. Also notes anecdotes unrelated to promotions.
An army correspondent from the 123d writes home about travel back to camp at Romney Virginia, detailing delays for wagons and passes, the joyful reception by fellow soldiers, and packages arriving with food and magazines. The tone recalls camp life, pay delays, loyalty to the cause, and occasional tensions with pickets and suspected rebels.
The Cooper Institute in New York drew a crowd of loyal supporters from multiple parties on Friday night. Mayor Godkin stood in for the ailing General Booth and delivered remarks alongside Prosper A. Watmore, William D. Bryant, I. D. Hitchcock, James T. Brady, D. Field, Charles P. Daly, and others. Letters from William H. Seward, General Burnside, Admiral Paulding, and more were read. John Van Buren and James Brady voiced strong pro Union views, urging perseverance in the war and support of wartime authority.
On Friday the 6th inst at Calumet Indiana a disturbance erupted after Capt Copp of Laporte spoke at a Soldiers' Aid Society event aboard the M S BR It troops were called in and the assault led to overturned wagons broken staves and stones while guns fired One assailant was badly hurt and later died Copp described as a War Democrat faced hostile crowds amid Copperhead sentiment and partisan commentary from Nashville Union and the Johnson County Indiana Herald reporting on copperhead views and soldier reactions to his appearance
Lincoln orders soldiers absent without leave to return to regiments by April 1 1868 under pain of desertion. Citizens urged to aid enforcement and restore troops, citing Congress act enrolling and calling out national forces. Paragraph notes hospital scene in Philadelphia with a German soldier quipping about Sigel and crowded quarters.
The Louisville Journal condemns a convention in Frankfort as a rebel gathering aimed at removing Kentucky from the Union. It brands its members as notorious rebels and accuses them of hypocrisy in adopting the name Democrat to mask treason amid controversy over radical federal actions.
The piece reports Union vs. Confederate tensions amid Indiana politics, noting Governor Morton’s stance on a state legislature, Democratic opposition, and calls to preserve the Union. It references butternut Democrats, soldiers voting rights debates, and remarks on Confederate conscription and unity, with regional graft and leadership commentary.
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