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Newspaper
Versailles Dispatch
Location
Versailles, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1864
Page
1
Versailles Indiana 1864 advertisement announces a fine art gallery with details of location near Dr Garnett's Office and author damie Il Puyor plus a wartime poem by B M Woops urging Children of Liberty to rise and support the nation during the Civil War and a hundred days of patriotism.
The letter recalls Civil War marches and battles from Carrollton to Sabine Pass, enlistment drives near Algiers, and veteran re-enlistments. It mentions the 18th Indiana Veterans, furloughs in Indianapolis, and upcoming orders toward Red River. Also includes Denver Colorado court tribute and a proclamation to free colored inhabitants in Mobile.
Seleneange announces on hand new and approved stove patterns including tinware and related items. Located at Versailles, October 13, 1962. Eli D. Hunter invites customers to inspect and compare prices and quality of heating rooms and cooking stoves.
Elmore Saltmarsh, agent at Sunman Tod, promotes the McCormick Reaper and Mower for 1864. The ad highlights new improvements including a wooden center piece in the caster wheel, a simpler reel, more fan arms, improved balance on rolling land, a versatile tongue joint, a new foot lever for the driver, and adjusted platform size and shape. It urges farmers to compare with rivals before buying and promises lasting durability and simplicity.
Notice records an 1864 advertisement by George B. Mill as agent for Joux Ih Wannsy’s Reaping and Mowing Machines at South Milan with contact for machinery. 1904 notice in Versailles offers boarding, stables, and tavern services at reasonable rates. includes mixed excerpts from unrelated works and local notices.
An 1864 letter argues that white wage loss due to black labor is minor beside the broader suffering of the colored race. It urges loyalty to emancipation, notes Fort Pillow as a grim example, and defends black enlistment despite dangers, pay gaps, and prisoner risks.
The spring emigration from Liverpool accelerates rapidly with 35 ships sailing under the Act in the past month carrying 16 118 steerage and 9 250 cabin passengers. Irish migrants dominate the flow while Victoria routes show only two ships with 535 steerage and seven cabin passengers.
A Nashville Union correspondent reports that in February James M. Rogers of Maury County Tennessee a member of Company M 5th Tennessee Cavalry was furloughed then captured at Blanton's Mill Henry County. He was forced to fight and was killed when five balls struck his breast after his captors pinned his furlough and body in the mill pond. The incident was witnessed and well authenticated.
A Bradford County correspondent explains a method to set fence posts to resist frost heave. Dig a shallow hole, drive down a crow bar to depth, insert a sharpened post, and hammer it solid with stone bedding to counter movement. Posts reportedly stay straight after eighteen years.
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