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Newspaper
Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph
Location
Pomeroy, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1862
Page
3
The Pomeroy Telegraph reports on Civil War events near Point Pleasant, Milroy’s artillery encampment, and election day calls. It praises local aid to wounded soldiers, notes Seminary leadership changes, and urges loyal voting while critiquing dissent and radical sentiments in the region.
A Northern paper rails at pro slavery officers resignations that did not occur and denounces Southern rebels and their Northern allies. It asserts Lincoln’s emancipation provoked Southern rage, while vowing the traitors will face punishment and the Union will endure.
Richmond papers celebrate salt shipments from Kanawha as essential for the South, noting prices drop from forty cents to five cents and predicting the fall of rebel forces. The piece urges optimism that loyal recruits and dismissals of unreliable officers will hasten conquest within sixty days. It also mentions President Buchanan spending to block Thaddeus Stevens’ return from Lancaster District, Pa.
Reports from Washington dated October 5 describe Union forces repelling Price Lovell and Hindering a Corinth attack with heavy enemy losses. Rosecrans notes serious Union officer casualties but greater Confederate losses as Gen W. Rosecrans pursues retreating rebels toward Bolivar. General Halleck states 5,000 to 6,000 Union troops under Hulburt at Tatehie River and captures 700 to 1,000 prisoners. A second dispatch reports Ord driving the enemy across the Hatchie, seizing two batteries and about 500 prisoners, with Rosecrans’ force concentrated near Chevalli and favorable prospects for continued pursuit. The item also includes a public note from the Third Assistant Postmaster General clarifying that postage stamps are not to be used as currency, urging reliance on postage prepayment and directing misused stamps to the Dead Letter Office.
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