Prologue by F Buchanan Read on Soldiers Families at Pike Opera
A poetical prologue honors soldiers and their families in a Cincinnati performance. Vivid scenes of mothers and fathers, sweethearts, and veterans fill the crowded venue as verses link patriot sacrifice to national memory. References to Sheridan Farragut Winslow and other heroes anchor the tribute, ending with a benediction on the households of the brave.
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Hamlet
Pike's Opera
Cincinnati
Qaiet
Out of the Gates of Hell and Rebel Prisoners Amid War News
The report contrasts Lt Markbreit freed after a harsh rebel imprisonment with the tale of Jlo starved in a dungeon, beard moulting, surviving by eating rats. It notes Roger A Pryor’s capture, confinement at Fort Warren, and subsequent treatment and escort to New York amid political hostilities. President Lincoln is invoked in a biblical reference.
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Markbreit
Reb«Le
Jlo
Cincinnati Guzette
Roger A Pryor
Fort Warren
Colonel Forney
New York
Washington
President Lintoln
Henry Clay and Edward Everett in a Senate debate
The passage recalls Henry Clay and Edward Everett amid 1840s controversy over Everett’s nomination as Minister to England. Wm. R. King of Alabama opposed Everett as a New England abolitionist, warning the Union might dissolve. Everett and Clay defended the nominee and the Senate hearing.
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Henry Clay
Edward Everett
Hattison
England
Committee On Foreign Relations
Wm. R. King
Alabama
Franklin Pierce
Senate
King
Everett
New England
Europe
Massachusetts
Tennessee Free Seats Amendments Adopted in 1820 Vote
The Constitutional Election of Tennessee on February 22 saw the Free Seats Amendments adopted by broad margins. In Nashville 899 votes were cast with only six against the new constitution, and other counties showed similar support. Gov. Johnston hailed the result as a new era, freeing enslaved people and promising honest labor, enterprise, and progress to clothe the state in beauty and prosperity.
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Tennessee
Nashville
Johnston
The Southerners Fight Back As Sherman Advances
A Civil War era critique notes Southern reluctance to burn property while Union armies push through the state. It cites rumors of Sherman's Charleston base and urges universal destruction to deny resources, urging residents to destroy what cannot be moved and resist surrender at all costs for safety and independence.
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New York Times
Sherman
Orangeburg
James
Colombia
Eshee
Gract
Charlestte
President Lincoln and the Late Peace Negotiations
Rev Henry Ward Beecher writing in the Watchman and Reflector discusses Lincoln and the peace negotiations during his Washington and Baltimore visit. The President appears well and determined despite burdens, with a businesslike message to Congress that outmatches Davie in perceived peace solicitations.
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Lincoln
Henry Ward Beecher
Watchman and Reflector
Washington
Baltimore
Tissea
Congress
Davie
Richmond Enquirer Attacks Confederate Currency Value
The Richmond Enquirer on February 17 denounces the Confederacy’s tax bill and currency system. It argues the public cannot bear the debt, calls Confederate dollars mere cents, and urges Congress to seal bonds and convert old notes to new specie-backed bonds to stabilize finances. The piece insists the financial reform is needed for improvement.
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Richmond Enquirer
Congress
Confidence in Permanency of the Government
A Philadelphian writes to the New York Tribune lamenting that workers deposit savings to buy 7 30 bonds and distrust Government permanency. He contrasts working people with farmers who exchanged Greenbacks for State Bank Paper, arguing the nation remains inseparable from its people despite debt and wartime strains.
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Philadelpia
New York Tribune
Jay Cooke
Rail gauge varieties in the United States and Canada
The text lists three classes of railroads by gauge in the United States. New England and New York lines use four feet eight and a half inches. In Ohio and south of Philadelphia gauges range up to four feet ten inches. Canada uses five feet six inches, with some Maine roads sharing this gauge. Broad gauge reaches six feet and includes Erie, Atlantic and Great Western, and Ohio and Mississippi as examples.
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Unites States
New England
New York
Ohio
Philadelphia
Canada
Maine
Erie
Atlantic
Great Western
Mississippi
Charleston and Wilmington Defenders Mocked in Prenticean Lines
A Charleston critique ridicules the city’s fall and Beauregard’s surrender while praising Union figures. The Louisville Journal’s mockery of Confederate leaders continues as Sherman’s stance draws Georgia ire and Wilmington’s defense persists. The piece blends satire with Civil War loyalties and calls for Fort Sumter veterans’ dinner.
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Fort Sumter
Columbia
South Carolina
Extorting Praise from Enemies in London News
The London Illustrated News praises President Lincoln, praising his simple noble death at Petersburg and his emancipation stance, while denouncing hostile charges. It notes the magazine’s sarcasm toward opponents and commends magistrates for responsible, energetic conduct.
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London
Lincoln
Petersburg
Murder of Colonel Johnson in Georgia Described
Norfolk letter reports the death of Colonel Joseph Johnson of Emaula Talapoosa County Georgia murdered February 4 by deserters from his regiment. His son in law fired at the killers who fled. no arrests made. Johnson accused of conscription abuses, alleged to have tightened prison rations at Andersonville.
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Starver
Norfolk
Joseph Johnson
Emaula
Talapoosa County
Georgia
Andersonville
Whisky tax debate divides the educated and poor
The letter argues that heavy whisky taxes cannot curb consumption, noting many sacrifice money for drink and tobacco while remaining unable to buy newspapers. It claims the public are educated and cultured yet slaves to vice, questioning the necessity of alcohol for the poor.
Milk weed fabric edges out cotton in new textile claim
The article notes cloth made from milk weed fiber fills pods, dyes well, and could supplant king cotton. It warns of counterfeit currency with petal imagery circulating, detailing fake coins and green backs that imitate genuine notes, including misprinted fives and fifties.
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Eth
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Jour
Appointment shakes Ohio bench as Judge Welch advances
Judge Jobo Welch of Allene county, appointed by Gov Brough to succeed Judge Raoney on the State Supreme Court, will immediately assume the new seat. Welch, a seasoned figure, has served as Common Pleas judge in the Athens district and earns broad support and respect.
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Jonge Raoney
Columbus
Jobo Welch
Allene County
Gov. Brough
Raoney
Common Pleas
Athene D.striot
We'ch
Supreme Bench
W. Lob
Ohio
Sherman Moves Critical to Richmond Campaign
Richmond paper cites Sherman as the key to the current attempt on Richmond. It warns that defeating Sherman will open a new front and change the war, suggesting his bold play for a high stake and his possible ruin if he fails.
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Richmond
Sherman
Speculations on Lees Plans and Confederate Strategy
The article analyzes Lee’s possible moves to evade Grant and Sherman by retreating toward Lynchburg then through East Tennessee to North Alabama, aiming to cut loose and reconnect with Texas and the Mississippi. It notes the plan’s desperate nature and potential to prolong the war, but argues Lee lacks the skill or energy to execute it.
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Lee
Sherman
Covington
Grant
Lynchburg
Pet
Beauregard
Herman
Denville
Abingdon
Virginis
Les
Teenessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Texas
The Heroic Switch-Tender in Prussia
A switch tender in Prussia risked hundreds of lives by shouting for his son to lie down on the track as a train approached. The child obeyed, the train passed over him unharmed, and the father later received the Medal of Honor from the king after the incident drew royal notice.
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Prussia
Grant and Sherman plan to concentrate rebel armies
The Cincinnati Commercial notes a long standing aim to concentrate military power for the rebellion. It cites General Grant and General Sherman sharing the view, with a spring 1864 campaign planned to move the Army of the West to the sea. A city observer recounts Grant saying he preferred fighting a concentrated force over fighting in detail.
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Grant
West
Sea Board
Sarrman
Lee
Richmond
Paris France and Europe poised over Confederate independence
The Times reports from New York that President Davis controls the chance of Southern independence, with or without Northern consent. It cites a bold Mexican- French settlement plan, saying Napoleon would govern northern Mexico as a viceroy to settle French claims, pressuring European recognition of the South.
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London Times
New York
Davis
America
Napoleon
Mexico
France
England
Europe
Brigham Young and Family Observed in Salt Lake City
Mr Warren Leland, reporting from the New York Metropolitan Hotel for the New York Herald, recalls a Salt Lake City ball with Brigham Young. He states Young had twenty three wives present and danced with six, noting cheerful affect and a long table seating his large family. Young appears bare, hearty, gay, sixty four, with many years ahead.
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Brigham Young
Warren Leland
New York Metropolitan
New York Herald
Salt Lake City
Brigham
Mr. L
Cure for Neuralgia by Metallotherapia in Paris
A case reports copper and brass therapy for neuralgia in Paris. After an iron dire failed, Dr Burey used a brass candlestick near the painful intercostal area and the agony instantly vanished, illustrating a copper or brass treatment method.
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Paris
Burey
Public Library Gift Prompt for Steubenville Benefactors
Mister Fellows of Philadelphia leaves a legacy valued at fifty to seventy five thousand dollars for a Roxbury Massachusetts public library. The note asks when such munificence by Steubenville's wealthy men will be recorded.
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Fellows
Philads
Roxbury
Mass
Steubenville
Charleston Inaugural Note Echoes Confederate Timeline
The fragment states Charleston fell into our hands on the 16th inst four years to a day from Jeff Davis's inauguration as Provisional President of the Confederacy, marking a symbolic timeline without broader context.
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Charleston
Jeff. Davis
Postage Amendment Rejected in Senate Vote
The proposal to raise revenue by increasing letter postage to five conte was defeated in the Senate on Thursday by twenty nays to thirteen yeas.
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Senate
The Shady Side of American Agriculture Revealed
A rebuttal on farm labor and management contrasts skilled trades with farming. It critiques unskilled laborers who demand high pay, highlights the need for understanding tools and methods, and cites anecdotes about plowing, sowing, pruning, and building. The piece also offers farming tips on pest control, ox selection, bird protection, and a milk lime paint formula.
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Tae Swaby Sipe
Borad
Emerald Isle
Promier
Telegraphic Battle Notes Sherman Johnston Move
In New York a Times Washi report says a large corps of surgeons and hospital stores have been sent to Wilmington for Sherman’s army amid rumors of Johnston’s forces advancing. Reports from Grant and Lee note quiet front lines and expect action soon, with deserters signaling Confederate defections and strategic shifts around Petersburg and the Southside railroad.
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Johnston
New York
Marci L
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Times
Washi
War Department
Wilmington
T’bey
Schofield
A. P. Flill
Lee
Petersburg
Grant
Richmond
Army of the Potomac
Potomac
James
the Tribune
Washington
Joe Johnston
Thoreday
Singleton
Hugh McCullough
the Treasury
Senate
Rebels Hint Sherman Near Fayetteville Advance
New York dispatches report that General Sherman is believed to be within marching distance of Fayetteville, located on the Cape Fear river, about 95 miles northwest of Wilmington. Porter’s latest advices indicate Sherman pushes up the river with gunboats, while rebel pipers remain reticent on his exact whereabouts.
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New York
Sherman
Fayetteville
Cape Fear River
Wilmington
Porter
Late Rebel News from Libby to Columbia Fire
Richmond dates February 27 report suppression of official military details. Generals Crook and Kelley arrived in Washington with rooms at Libby. Congressman Russell visited Kelley. Western Columbia fire from Main street to Charlotte depot, three fourths of a mile, magnitude uncertain. Refugees prepare to return, Ursuline Convent mentioned in Columbia report.
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Crook
Kelsey
Libby
Columbia
Grant
Sherman
Washington
Richmond
Eays
Carolinas
Kelley
Russell
Congress
Weeling
Gen. Kelley
Columbiai
Botton
Main Street
Charlotte Depot
Charlotte
Ursuline Convent
Bya
Rebels’ Charleston Defences Heavily Racked By Union Artillery
General Gillmore reports to the Washington Department that Union forces have seized more than four hundred and fifty ordnance pieces at Charleston including 8 and 10 inch columbiads and 82 and 42 pounders. Locomotives and cars captured. Georgetown evacuated. Deserters say hardee’s army crossed the Santee for Charlotte and Hood’s 12,000-strong corps moved toward Beauregard. Sherman’s actions feared to interrupt the march. Deserters increasing. Gillmore confirms command.
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Gilmore
Washington
Dix
Gillmore
Heapquastras
Hardee
Santee River
Charlotte
N. C
Sherman
Hood
Beauregard
Georgetown
Q. A. 'Gilmoke
Moravida Arrives at Portland Amid War News
Latest Foreign Intelligence reports the Moravida from Liverpool and Londonderry arriving at Portland. Rebel steamer Stonewall alias Ounda described as Ferrol and leaky, armed with four guns. Alabama crew aboard. London financial circles gloomily react to peace talks. Consols fall while hope persists the peace conference may still yield results despite a failed initial round.
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Poxattawn
Liverpool
Londonderry
Portland
Stonewall
Ounda
Alabama
London Stock Exchange
America
Qeerie
Hiberniao
Daily News
Lincoln Re-Elected President In 1864 Term
Washington March 1 Senator Trumbull and Representatives Wilson and Dawson as the Select Committee informed President Lincoln of his reselection. Lincoln replied that he views the call to a second term as a testament to public judgment and vowed to finish the work amid peril and duties with gratitude to the people and reliance on the Almighty. No reply yet from the Vice President who did not arrive until tonight.
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Lincoln
Washmoton
Trumbull
Wilson
Dawson
Houses of Congress
Army News and Military Notes From Washington March First
From the Army of the Potomac. The move order was countermanded after a night under arms due to a storm. Arago off Charleston harbor reports Columbia burned and Augusta captured by Union troops. Senator Wilson's disabled soldiers asylum bill has 1000 incorporators led by Gen. Grant. Maj. Gen. Schofield and Howard named Brigadier Generals. Grant’s offer to pay deserters for mules boosts desertions to return. Hancock slated for West Virginia command after Crooks’ capture. Wilmington cotton and naval stores permits increasing. Treasury sights encourage cotton export. War Committee reports delayed on Fort Fisher failure and Red River Expedition. Admiral Porter testimony pending.
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Army of the Potomac
New York
Arago
Charleston Harbor
Columbia South Carolina
Augusta
Georgis
Wilson
Gen. Grant
Senate
Schofield
Howard
Herald
Grant
Washington
Tris
Hancock
Department of West Virginia
Crooks
Permaitz
Wilmington
Butler
Fort Fisher
Red River
Admiral Porter
Governor Brown of Georgia Defends State Against Sherman
The governor denounces newspaper attacks on Georgia for allowing Sherman to march unchallenged, urges a state militia, forced impressments for indigent soldiers’ families, a law punishing robbery by death, opposes arming slaves, decries Confederate taxation, blames Jeff Davis’s leadership, and calls for constitutional reform and state requisitions while seeking removal of Davis as commander in chief.
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Gov. Brown
Georgia
Washington
Brown
Sherman
Confederate Congress
Jeff. Davis
Davis
Richmond Whig
Shermen
Joe Johnston
Yankees
Mississippi
Rebel Plot on Tennessee River details capture at Chapman’s Landing
Chattanooga march 2 report of the capture of a rebel yawl and fourteen men by seven loyal Tennesseans below Kingston on the Tennessee river. The yawl carried torpedoes to destroy government property and was under rebel Navy Department orders. Built at Richmond and moved via Bristol and the Holsten river to its capture site, the men aimed to strike government warehouses and riverbanks. The operation was led by a scientific officer, with rebels outwitted by local citizens after traversing Knoxville and Kingston. About fifty guards burned the depot at Paoli on the Keokills test road and robbed nearby families.
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Tennessee River
Chattanooga
Chapman’s Landing
Kingston
Navy
Richmond
Bristol
Holsten
Rolling &O
Shalf
Knoxville
Kiogaton
Paoli
Keoz¢ills
Guerrilla Robbery Hits Kentucky Cargo Ratified
A band of guerrillas robbed a Kentucky cargo in Ballad County, taking ten thousand dollars worth of goods. The incident occurred near Hopkinsville as night froze. several men were robbed and two Union men were harmed or captured.
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Ballad County
Kentucky
Hopkineville
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