Indiana Officers Denounce Knights of the Golden Circle
A Danville Ledger report notes K G O members surrender and renounce ties while seeking an oath of allegiance. Brown County pistol case prompts oath conflict. Indiana officers urge immediate submission to the U S Constitution and laws. resolutions praise Union, condemn secessionists, and call for vigorous prosecution of the war. Brown County commission to investigate disturbances with Gov Morton praised. U S Commissioner Wright named for the World’s Fair duties. Fort Grissom, near Moscow, Tenn. April 5, 1863.
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Inn
Fort Grissom
Moscow
Tenn
97Th Indiana Regiment of Volunteers
North
Lake Superior
Mexican Gulf
Atlantic
Pacific
North West
North East
Lexington
Concord
Bunker Hill
Bennington
Jefferson Davis Suffering Illness in Richmond Residence
A Montgomery Advertiser correspondent reports Jefferson Davis confined to his Richmond home for two weeks with a temple abscess endangering his sight. The Terre Haute Express notes a Terre Haute resident, Morris, arrested for shouting for Jeff Davis and sent to Indianapolis to be sent to Secessionist forces.
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Jerr
Davis Lixety
Montgomery Advertiser
Richimond
Jefferson Davis
The
Terre Haute Express
Morris
Lindsay
Jeff. Davis
Indianapolis
Secessia
Augusta cotemporary notes tenpenny nails as currency
A Georgia contemporaries from Augusta report that a gentleman returning from North Carolina says tenpenny nails pass at five cents there. The Lynchburg paper rejects such metallic currency, noting local media use corn grains as five cent units and tobacco quids as decimal equivalents.
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Lynchburg
Augusta
Georgia
North Carolina
Franklin’s view on literacy and civic virtue
The text cites Benjamin Franklin as an observant man who valued a newspaper and a Bible in every home and a good school in every district as keys to virtue, morality, and civil liberty. It emphasizes that education and literacy support civic life.
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Franklin
Major McNaught Promoted to Command of 59th Regiment
The dock-legged Major Sabin appears to have been displaced as Captain Thomas A. McNaught is promoted to Major of the 59th regiment. The notice implies a change in leadership within the unit and records McNaught's elevation.
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Thomas
A. McNaught
59Th Regiment
Sabin
Resolution Copies Sent to Indiana Papers
A Civil War era committee announces copies of resolutions be sent to the Indianapolis Journal and Indianapolis Sentinel for publication. Signed by Captain David Shelby and Secretary A P Fonsyta, with certification by Colonel R F Carrenson of the 97th Indiana Regiment.
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Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis Sentinel
David Shelby
Co H
A. P. Fonsyta
Sec’y
R. F. Carrenson
Coal. Com
97Th Ind. Reg
Illinois sugar beet venture backed by rail line funds
Capitalists in Illinois form a sugar beet manufactory with Prof Mot of Ohio as agent. Ten thousand dollars is advanced, and the Illinois Central Railroad Company offers bonds for testing the project. Mot plans to plant at least three hundred acres as the venture expands into cotton hopes. Six carloads of cotton seed were moved from Cairo on the Illinois Central last week. Four deserters in Western Virginia carry letters from their fathers urging desertion and Ohio Governor Tod recommends shooting the fathers.
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Inlinois
Prof. Mot
Ohio
Ilinois Central R. A
Cairo
Illinois Central Railroad
Virginia
Gov
Tod
General Sullivan Removed from Jackson District Command
General Sullivan is removed from command of the District of Jackson Tennessee by Brigadier General Kimball and ordered to duty as Inspector General of the Department of the Tennessee by Major General Grant.
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Sullivan
District of
Jackson,Tenn
Kimball
Department of the Tennessee
Grant
Negro Equality Observed at Memphis Funeral
Report from Memphis notes a funeral where black attendees rode in carriages pulled by white drivers, illustrating a form of racial parity. The remark suggests greater negro equality in the slave states than might exist in free states if abolitionists were multiplied.
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South
Memphis
Slave States
Free States
Phillips
The False Clere Murder Mystery in Mauritius
A translated Chambers narrative recounts the Clodomir Frenois murder on Mauritius with a note of suicide, a robbed fortune, and a later revival when Frenois—presumed dead—visits his creditor Mr. Burnett. John Moon, tied to the case, is arrested but denies theft, claiming no evidence supports the charge. The tale unfolds amid colonial tensions and legal intrigue.
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Chambers’ Journal
Mauritius
Sieur Clodomir Frenois
Cropomir Frevots
Return of Clodomir Frenois after dramatic trial
In a colonial court a man named Clodomir Frenois reveals he faked his death to save his family after helping himself to a dead body for dissection. He presents proof linking John Moon to the robbery and is celebrated by a cheering crowd as his wife rejoins him.
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Indianapolis Gazette
Jos. A. Wright
Lincoln
U. S
Qambarg
Berlin
Europe
Moon
John Moon
Cladomir Frenois
Clodomir Frenois
Sexton
Frenois
Clodomir Irenois
Deserters to Face Return Home as Canada Mulls Draft Rule
The piece notes Canadian parliamentary talk of repatriating US deserters and defining absentees from the draft as deserters, with punishment for evasion. It also reports a Oswego, New York, man claimed to be 118, a lifelong smoker who has fathered 25 children.
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Canada
United States
Oswego
New York
Man’s fifty year tobacco chew would span a mile and a quarter
A man who chews two inches of solid plug daily for fifty years would consume about 9366 feet of tobacco, roughly a mile and a quarter, at an estimated cost of 1500 dollars. The calculation notes that millions partake in this habit.
Bread Riots Feared in Richmond Amid Food Shortages
Reports indicate a bread riot feared in Richmond Virginia as merchants bolster defenses. Troops near the city are demoralized by famine as families suffer and riotous demonstrations arise from hunger.
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Richmond
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Lara W. Noble
Brown County
97Th Reg
Oli Lickory
Dixie
O. P. Morton
Indiana
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Tate
France
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Mccon
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Morning Post
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