The Last Supremacy of Grant and Sheridan at Petersburg
The Lipton Advertiser reports the final Union campaign near Petersburg with Gen. Grant breaking the center and flanking the rebel lines, Sheridan and Warren striking at the right, and anticipated rapid consequences. A separate note summarizes a draft circular by Provost Marshal General Fry allowing substitutions for association recruits under the amended enrollment law.
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Richmond Falls to Grant Weitzel Forces at Petersburg
Gen. Grant's army breaches Lee's lines, evacuates Richmond and Petersburg. Weitzel's colored divis ion occupies the rebel capital, captures locomotives and cars, with 15,000 to 18,000 Confederate prisoners reported. Union fleets engage James River ironclads as Sherman advances. Confederate army appears doomed.
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Weitzel
Grant
James River
Fort Darling
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Charleston Loyalists Endure After Victory in War
The piece notes freed Black Loyalists defeating rebel efforts to hide their steeple around Charleston. It recalls capture of Charleston and the expectation of only a few hundred bales. About two hundred people declare their loyalty by oath and Bible. Colored Methodists weigh joining North vs African E church with equal rights and no galleries, planning to hear accredited agents before deciding.
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Charleston
Charles Ten Ia
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M. E. Church of the North
M. E. Church
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Iowa News Tales of debt bluff cave and war pardons
A man assaulted over a debt promises to pay within ten minutes. A Dubuque shaft yields a vast cave described as 650 feet long with widths from three to twenty five feet and heights five to ten feet. A boy shot a girl in Pelle injuring an old woman. Brown alias Craven gains clemency to serve three years. Cuhoe may still be shot. A German Iowa soldier near Vicksburg is reported dead. his wife seeks back pay and a pension.
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Ohio
New Liberty
Louisiana
Richmond
Sambo
Ore Turner
New York Central Park
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Iowa News
Pere County
Clarinda Observer
Dubuque Times
Dubuque
Julien Company
Pelle
Vernon
Pella
Davenport Democrat
Brown
Craven
Cohoe
Alias Cole
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Devis
Cuhoe
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Vicksburg
Silent leaders and Confederate finances in Civil War era notes
Fragmented text recounts Virginia leaders, Alabama and Kentucky figures, and calls for end of the war. Mentions the Revenue stamp duty on receipts, Confederate losses in England, failed blockade runners, a Montezuma burglary attempt, and school district financial reports dated 1855. Includes references to Tipton and Indiana context.
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Charlee James Fox Faulkner
Boteler
Barnett
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Nicholson
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Soule
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George 8. Houston
Washington
Congress
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Philadelphia Press
Independent School District
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Co. Treas
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