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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1862
Page
1
Senators Doolittle and Howes spar over increasing West Point cadets and whether promotion should flow from the ranks or via the academy. Speakers defend the academy’s value while urging broader access and reform to military officer formation.
In Wisconsin winter a detachment prepares to move. The 13th regiment earns a good name as the Carlins share march weather, guarding duties in thirty degree below zero, with pay around thirty thousand dollars and letters addressed Port Leavenworth Kansas. Two men marry same woman. town jail after. Mail from Detroit to Lake Superior often misses deadlines. General S A Hurlbut assigned to Benton Barracks Missouri.
Report discusses Soundings in the Atlantic beyond Ireland showing shallow waters and a deep gulf. notes ooze floor and countless tiny creatures, with no bones of larger animals found. Describes evaporating clouds of rain dust from South America and rapid telegraph experiments across New York and Chicago. Also mentions 150 Union prisoners released at Fortress Monroe arriving in Baltimore.
A rebel volunteer writing to the Norfolk Day Book outlines army unhappiness from officer impunity and lower pay for officers versus privates, plus strict War Department furlough rules. He notes Georgia regiments left home quickly, yet eight months with no furloughs drained morale as families suffered while orders barred leave.
The Post Office Department issues a circular promoting Stamped Envelopes as economical substitutes for stamps. Benefits include reduced postage, less loss from missing stamps, clearer address imprinting, and faster mailing. Postmasters may exchange spoiled envelopes with proper evidence, forwarding spoiled cases quarterly to Finance Office.
The editorial lauds President Lincoln's cabinet choice and the War Secretary appointment as evidence of his self possessed, deliberate leadership. It praises his moral firmness and long considered decisions, contrasting him with Andrew Jackson and praising restraint from rash partisanship.
A Washington dispatch discusses abolishing the franking privilege and taxing newspapers for exchange. Proposals favor an eighth of a cent per printed sheet, boosting government revenue but raising fears of higher journal prices and rural press backlash. Garibaldi reportedly returned to Caprera.
Two Winchester messengers bring letters from Jacksons command noting minor skirmishing with separate captures of two cannons and ten prisoners as enemy forces retreated across the Potomac. Jackson aimed to destroy Dam No 6 and bridges on the Baltimore and Ohio road, with about twenty of his men lost. A local militia engagement near Col Blue's resulted in several killed, prisoners, artillery and wagon losses, and destruction of houses and stock.
The document records a presidential directive to Secretary of War about appointing a Brivilos General of Volunteers. The letter, dated August, discusses sending a brigadier with sufficient regiments to secure speedy approval, aiming to avoid further communication and expedite action, referencing New Orleans.
A Senate discussion denounces sutlers who profit from soldiers’ earnings. Cyrus Seymour and others are named as appointees collecting large yearly sums with subsidies through the Civil War era supply system. Critics accuse a monopoly of profiteering from soldiers and their families and urge reform.
Washington reports a fever outbreak with over two hundred cases and widespread typhoid like illness, malarial treatment advised. A skating tournament is planned in Central Park with prizes and notable competitors including Weavers from Philadelphia, governed by Boston rules.
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