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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1864
Page
3
A 1864 Rockport Ohio notice schedules Dr Thwing at Crandall's Exchange and covers the Wayne County Fair weather impact and large entries with good satisfaction. It includes a political discussion fragment urging support for the Union and Democratic defeat of the party aligned with Lee and Grant.
Private letters report part of the 102d Ohio with 210 men from the 18th Michigan under Lieut. Col. Elliott attacked rebels near Athens Alabama. They drove them a mile before meeting a force 20 to 1 stronger. Elliott was badly wounded in the head. Seventeen of the allied force were killed, forty wounded, the rest captured. Elliott’s wound not deemed dangerous. Names and details of Wayne county troops unavailable.
The Rev G S Philips Chaplain of the 49th Ohio Infantry spoke at the Methodist Church in Wooster on Sunday evening to benefit the Christian Commission. The densely packed audience heard a highly regarded, eloquent address praising patriotic service and urging support for the Sanitary Commission. Philips has also written The American Republic and Human Freedom Foreshadowed in Scripture, priced at 1 50 at the Arcadome, with all proceeds to the Sanitary Commission.
The great unhung Vallandigham spoke in Wooster then Millersburg to copperhead leaders in Holmes County Rebellion. He was escorted to the Exchange Balcony where he was praised by local Democrats for last October while he watched the border. He called for three cheers for McClellan Pendleton Personal Liberty and the Constitution and dodged back to his room. Wednesday he left the depot under guard Neal Power and Roselo McBride. The crowd jeered and mocked the Union, while criticizing Chicago Copperhead Platform and McClellan stumper Buch.
A veteran letter from Dalton argues the North’s Copperheads fuel the rebellion more than the South, predicts Lincoln’s election will end the war, and urges support for Old Abe. It contrasts Breckinridge and McClellan with Democratic firebrands and notes canal shelling risks near the work site.
A Civil War field report describes ongoing skirmishes with rebel shells and mule supply lines. Soldiers reveal scarce beef, slow progress, and orders to move immediately to Deep Bottom, while expressing resolve to end the war with the rifle and disdain for McClellan and Pendleton.
The Oak Grove Branch Wooster Soldier's Aid Society reports items donated or forwarded to Wooster Aid Society during the year ending August 1864. They express gratitude for a $100.80 donation and other gifts to support soldiers' families. Items include shirts drawers socks comforts towels sheets pillows bandages slings handkerchiefs and various food and pickle supplies, plus $22.45 in money and member dues of 12.30.
Anthony Wright treasurer announces the 1864 tax rates as detailed in the county table. It lists cents levied per hundred dollars of taxable property across each township and incorporated town.
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