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Newspaper
Weekly Confederate
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1864
Page
4
A Confederate defender argues that peace talks are advancing with a shift toward reconciliation while Lincoln resists concessions. The piece praises Lee, Davis, and Jefferson Davis, naming Sherman’s loss of McPherson as a strategic setback, and cites a Montreal account praising Southern leadership and aims amid ongoing military strain.
Reports from Petersburg Detail a Confederate mine and bombardment attack that breached Union lines near Cemetery Hill. Describes Mahone and Weisiger counterattacks, heavy casualties on both sides, and captures of arms and prisoners. Also included is a lengthy overview of the 1864 Union campaign, Chambers fought around Spotsylvania and Petersburg, and a grim assessment of Confederate prospects versus Grant’s strategy.
A local publisher advertises extensive new and discounted books including Johnsons Common School Arithmetic and Dixie Elementary Spelling Book. The list covers primers, grammars, geography, readers, poetry, sermons, history, novels, and military and religious works with prices and discount terms for trade.
State of North Carolina issues public notice in the Confederate weekly for six weeks, ordering Ralph Blevina to appear at the next term of Ashe County Superior Court in Jefferson on the fourth Monday after August’s fourth Monday. Failure to plead will bring final judgement. E C Bartlett Clerk. February 15.
In the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions May Term 1864 in North Carolina, Henry Sheppard as administrator files to divide slaves of Jos A Williams deceased. Nonresident defendants R R Foreman and wife must answer at next term or judgment by confession will be granted. six weeks public notice in Confederate. Court clerk GEO A Dancey signs. Jane 8 19 1864.
Perkins Johnson and Elizabeth his wife George Fisher James James and wife Sarah Heie at Law of The Fi her dee d Petition for Dower appears to require all defendants to appear at the Morganton house on the first Monday after the fourth Monday in September next to plead answer or demur or judgment pro confesso will be entered Witness J A Kincaid Clerk of said Court at Morganton first Monday after the fourth Monday in June A D 1864 Also a runaway notice from Wake County State Jail for Sally Bryant a negro woman about 25, 5 feet 2 inches tall raised in Jones county who escaped on May 5 and is described with a red cotton dress and missing upper teeth. Owners to prove property pay charges and take her away.
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