Bombardment reflections amid attacks at Charleston and New Orleans
Reports describe day two of bombardment destroying towns Charleton and Woolsey and many navy yard buildings, with limited ship gains due to water depth and wind. Casualties include a killed man and multiple wounded as shells explode, plus efforts by Niagara Richmond and Battery Scott silencing McRae and Barancas Fort.
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Navy Yard
Niagara
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Scott
McRae
Barancas Fort
Pope’s Union force scatters rebels near Clinton and Oseola
Dispatch states General Pope intercepted about 2000 rebels en route from Lexington to Price at Oseola. A hundred fifty captured by cavalry near Oseola, seventy wagons with clothing and munitions seized. Pope retires to Sedalia after clearing surrounding country. Charleston population noted with racial remarks. city colors and diversity praised.
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Missouri Democrat
Tipton
Pope
Clinton
Lexington
Price
Oseola
Bung Hole Sharp Shooters and Other War News
Rumors spread of a Vermont rifle company using a cider barrel target with a captain judging hits. no expulsions in eight years. Notices cover war claims agency by H S Clark, a name change for Capt. Cailan's Battery to the Second Ohio Battery, and reports on uniforms and local military drills. Dispatches note Major Wright’s battalion in new uniforms, a fatal table accident, NY Central earnings, Seward's view on foreign war, and royal Unionist dinners in London celebrating Port Royal victory with Gen Scott. Also cited is a German wagon tale and Virginia suffrage debate. Reports place New Orleans under federal occupation per Gen. Phelps.
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Vermont
Rebels at Columbus and political fixes in Congress
The piece notes the Columbus rebels drawing in their picket lines after a near attack. Gov Gamble fixed Congressional selections for the third and fifth districts for the thirtieth inst. A Sunday school boy at Akron quotes a violent line about shooting those who haul down the American flag. Sutlers on the Potomac organize resistance to Senator Wilsons bill abolishing their office. A lieutenant in the Second Maryland shot a soldier. a friend killed the lieutenant. Fort McHenry holds the murderer. Illinois towns burn corn for fuel as cheaper than farm cost. A sutler and men were shot near the area last night.
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