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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1865
Page
1
The WaxoO County Journal lists advertising tarrifs with options for column widths and durations. It lists public notices and legal ads at statute prices, with rates for one year and six months and various column sizes.
The document outlines formation of The United States Military Road Company under Wisconsin law, specifying capital stock up to three hundred thousand dollars, purpose to build a road from Copper Harbor to the Wisconsin line, and to acquire land, operate mining, mills, smelting works, and related enterprises along the line. It details corporate powers, land grants, mineral rights, production, mills, stage line, buildings, and governance including directors, officers, stock voting, and stockholder meetings.
General John M. Palmer, newly appointed commander of the military district of Kentucky, recounts his long acquaintance with Abraham Lincoln and praises his abilities as a lawyer and statesman. The scene includes a comical moment when Palmer recalls Lincoln on the stump in Illinois and quips about taking back a mistaken remark.
Fragmentary Civil War note shows General Bragg joking that five proclamations and one brigade would crush Sherman. President Davis sent a telegraph to Bragg about attacking Sherman with proclamations. The exchange cites Governor Brown’s proclamation and others from Wright, Will, and Senate members as context.
A 45 year old Union veteran, C. D. Saunders of the Thirteenth Virginia Volunteers, has not slept for fourteen years and six months. He entered service in 1863 and, despite good health and physical rest, reports no drowsiness even after seven marches and four charges near Harper's Ferry. He was admitted to Chestnut Hill hospital for chronic diarrhea and rheumatism but continues to sleep not at all, a fact confirmed by observers and medical staff.
A reconstruction era speech recalls the first inaugural and the Civil War, noting the cost of slavery as the war’s cause, reflecting on divine justice, and calling for unity, enduring sacrifice, and a lasting peace to heal the nation. It emphasizes perseverance, national wounds, and the duty to bind up the land.
A draft report notes a milk sugar factory in New York could produce large daily quantities from one thousand cows. The item also lists mail wrapper failures hindering soldier parcels, War Department officer counts, and various 1865 Wisconsin legislative acts and local notices.
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