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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1862
Page
1
A first person narrative describes surviving a shipboard explosion by hiding in a boiler, detailing a night of fear and improvised escape using a mallet to puncture a leaking wall and avoid drowning. The excerpt ends with the speaker’s rescue and a Civil War era inaugural address praising Confederate independence and sacrifice.
A reflective critique condemns the pursuit of outward respectability over honesty. It laments social display and fashionable status while urging courage and authenticity in life’s conditions and choices.
Fragmentary patriotic verse asks divine aid for strength, courage, and victory in battle. The martial rhetoric invokes God of the Righteous, God of the People, and God of Humanity to gird the nation for war and secure freedom and peace.
A dense Southampton crowd eyes a ship horizonward as Slidell and Mason arrive after release. Anxious locals hoot and hurl abuse while a Times correspondent overhears talk of war and papers next to a fuming tradesman. The pair seek refuge in a hotel as tempers flare.
A discussion reveals a plan to carry a person through the street for a specific payment while offering the captive half the proceeds. Deputies express disbelief and concern at the audacious scheme and its potential consequences.
A Chicago Times correspondent reports from Fort Donelson Tennessee on February 17 describes a two mile field strewn with dead two miles of ground covered with corpses and implements of war. He recalls a grand rebel sortie aimed at turning McClernand right flank and details harrowing scenes of combat and death.
Be patient and kind to your husband and children amid weariness and duty. Consider loss and loneliness if they are gone, and cultivate sweetness and love now. Death will separate you with them, so endure with gentleness. The speaker urges contentment in the blessed life of wifehood and motherhood.
A doctor reels off a grim bedside joke about a lad whose mother dies. A witticism about staying warm by quarrelling with neighbors appears, followed by a husband wife exchange about unity and weariness when apart.
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