Dark Tide of Death Aboard a Slaver Ship From New York
A first-person narrative recovers a two year thrash at sea ending in a slaving voyage toward Africa. The voyage features brutal underdeck confinement of captives, ferocious discipline, and a harrowing Atlantic crossing, amid mutiny rumors, fever, and a near pursuit by a Yankee cruiser. The speaker recalls moral conflict and the violent, harrowing conditions aboard the slave ship.
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Coventry
Congo River
Nor’ard
Womer
Na Smovti
Tropics
Cilcutta
Jeut
Lisle
Monrovia
Africa
New York
Broadway
Toombs
The Great Battle Near Richmond and a Connecticut Sailor’s Tale
A long passage recounts a shipboard escape from pursuers and a brutal terror of enslaved Africans being thrown overboard. The narrative shifts to Gen Richardson’s account of the Battle of Fair Oaks near Richmond in 1862, detailing the strategic moments, cavalry and artillery actions, and the turn of events that allowed Union forces to regain ground.
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Fair Oaks
Boston Traveller
Fair Oake Station
Richmond
Sumner Defends President's Emancipation Policy
Charles Sumner answers a friend’s critique by stressing the President’s responsibility for subordinates, praising emancipation moves in the States and District of Columbia, and urging steadfast support for the administration based on his close, lifelong view of the President’s convictions and moral aims.
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Stanly
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Noted Grambler and Jeff Davis Kin in Kentucky Tale
The fragment recounts Sandy Black a temperamental Edinburgh grambler whose quarrelsome nature sparks domestic chaos over dinner choices while a separate note mentions Jeff Davis's father living in a Kentucky log cabin and his illegitimate birth. The piece ends with a jocular remark about a wife speaking truth three times daily.
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Curious Mirror at Paria Exposition Ends In Fear
An English paper describes a large concave mirror in the Paria Exposition offering eerie optical tricks. At close range it shows a monstrous distorted face, then a reversed true likeness, and finally a so called veritable self between viewer and mirror. A sword thrust caused Louis XV to flee, ending royal patronage for the exhibit.
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Child punished for poaching trespass in Maidstone hedge
At Maidstone England a child named Charles Thomas faced a fine of twenty pounds plus costs for discovering and pulling a snare in a hedge while searching for food for his rabbit. His mother said she could not pay and the child was jailed after a failed appeal for time.
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Potter urged to seek re nomination by district and nation
The Post du Lac Corminonneaut reports that Hon. John F. Potter plans to retire from Congress at the end of his term though local and national voices urge him to seek re nomination. It notes Potter’s health concerns and the need for men of integrity to address wartime and territorial questions.
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Troubles of a Secesh Maiden in Paria
A humorous Civil War era item describes a Secessionist young woman eager to marry a wealthy French groom. The ceremony spans French and local regimes, with Slidell referenced. ultimately the couple marry on American soil at the Legation under a fiction of international law, amid mock patriotic chiding.
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Penitent Confederate Colonel Dies in Mercy at Fortress Monroe
An incident at Fortress Monroe as wounded from the Richmond battle arrive. A Confederate colonel lung-shot asks for forgiveness, prays with Sir Barclay, names his wife and children, and dies in a silent farewell as bystanders observe the scene.
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