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Newspaper
Ripon Weekly Times
Location
Ripon, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1862
Page
1
Fragmentary verse and prose passages lament social constraints and wartime fears. The voice questions gender roles and national duty, imagining a frail wife and child amid carnage, urging readers to consider home front costs and lost futures.
In a Springfield battle scene, Lucy Dudley aids wounded and guides Union riders while Zagonyi commands a daring assault against Armstrong’s Confederates. The narrative highlights Lucy’s bravery, the aftermath, and Gen. Halleck’s strategic leadership.
A humorous, fragmentary critique of the city sparrow as a scavenger and thief. The piece sketches the bird’s bold, busy, mischief making behavior, noting its appetite, vigilance, and opportunistic stealing, amid light satirical asides about human society and rebellion.
A Thurlow Weed style dispatch urges immediate adoption of contrabands policy for loyal owners' slaves to aid Union troops. It notes Butler's 1861 stance, proposes compensation for loyal masters, and claims slaves as unarmed auxiliaries would strengthen Union forces. Also reports losses of sergeants Staples Parker and Melvin, plus a company officers’ vote naming Shepard captain and Stevens second lieutenant.
Three figures drift on a moonlit lake as dawn creeps over islands and pines. The air fills with sweet perfume from flowering briars while the water glitters with gold and emerald reflections. Birds call from shore as light mist and wind reveal a vivid, dreamlike landscape.
The Ripon institution founded for coeducational youth seeks to become an academy and later a college under the Winnebago Congregational Convention. A philanthropic donation allowed building expansion, but debt remains. The board met in Ripon yesterday to plan debt clearance and scale operations for a stronger academic future.
A camp anecdote recounts General Nelson at post No 4 being humorously ordered to mark time, guards enforcing countersigns, and the troops enjoying the joke. The piece also profiles Col Charles Ellet, the Mississippi Ram projector, and summarizes his wartime plans and later criticisms of Gen McClellan. It adds brief notes on Hindman and local attitudes in Vicksburg, concluding with reflections on death and planting time.
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