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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1862
Page
1
Poem extols a newborn with tiny feet and pale ankles likened to snow. The speaker praises the infant’s pink sprinkled dress double chin puckered lip and toothless mouth while comparing her to an angel and noting the blessing of a loving gift from God.
A nurse recalls wartime duty at a hospital, tending dying soldiers from Donelson and Savannah, bathing faces, sharing kindness, and comforting dying youths like Frankie. She describes the grim scenes, the burden of delivering news to families, and reflects on war's toll and calls for unity.
An army correspondent from Jackson Tennessee at the Bloomington Pantograph reports Gen John A Logan, former Illinois congressman, telling soldiers he has been nose about by Southern politicians and will not sheath his sword until their institution is wiped out. The note adds that six months in Union service would convert most Democrats with eyes and a heart.
Reports describe Gen Iremont’s eight Parrot guns supported by Maj Richards’s Reading, Pa unit in a sharp melee at Cross Keys. A German cannon crew ordered explodes to mobilize mule carriage of mountain howitzers amid Rebel infantry. a volley from the pack animals routs the advancing line and leaves 278 corpses in the ravine.
New York City News reports on vessels at the wharves and the brig Miranda arriving from Truxillo with Honduras Sarsaparilla for Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co. of Lowell. It notes the firm’s careful sourcing, the value differences among sarsaparilla varieties, and the agent’s travels in Honduras and along the Gulf of Dulce and Montagua and Santigo.
The British Admiralty grants Atlantic Telegraph Company ships and crews to rework surveys along a five hundred mile westward cable route from the Irish coast. Soundings will be spaced about a mile apart to map the sea bottom, with Newfoundland coast study and pilots provided free by the English Government. The Porcupine will begin soundings in two days as negotiations continue for additional capital. Lincoln signs tax, Pacific Railroad and Utah polygamy bills, advancing internal revenue, rail construction, and federal authority. The 84th Fourth of July anniversary notes new laws and progress. Gen. Scott’s wife dies in Rome at seventy-two.
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