Civil War

October 10, 1861 — Scoundrels

We are mortified beyond expression to remark that there are men in the South who, in this war of independence, find the dictates of selfish interest stronger than that of patriotism, to a degree which is only not criminal in the popular understanding because there is no law…

October 9, 1861 — A Friendly Interview Between Pennsylvania Regiments and the Rebels

Fraternal feelings between foes.

A Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune says :

October 8, 1861 — News From Cairo

(Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.)

Cairo, Oct. 7.

The gunboats Tyler and Lexington had an active engagement to-day with rebel shore batteries at Iron Banks, three miles this side of Columbus. The boats left here…

October 7, 1861 — A Dishonest Scoundrel

Lieut. Col. Hawley, of one of the Connecticut regiments, has fallen in with one of the scoundrels, “a Massachusetts fellow,” who has been using his office of quartermaster as a source of dishonest profit. He belongs to a cavalry regiment. In a letter to the…

October 5, 1861 — Launches Built in Algiers

Messrs. John O. McLean and John Mahoney have each just finished six launches, twelve in all. These are larger than the two built in Mobile, of which we see quite a description traveling the rounds of the papers. Those built here are forty feet long…

October 4, 1861 — The War and Slavery

West Liberty, 9th month, 22d, 1861.

Friend Mahin: — It seems very strange to me, the present condition of this government, and very humiliating its future prospects. — On the one hand we see American slavery arraying a mighty host against…

The Monotony of Camp Life

The following, written at the entrenched camp near Norfolk, is from a member of the Mobile Gulf City Guards, only seventeen years of age:

Dear Grand Pa If you only knew the monotony of camp life you would not wonder (coming from as feeble a pen as mine) at…

October 1, 1861 — Sent to Richmond

A lady who gave her name as Mrs. Mary Ann Keith, of Memphis, Tennessee, was arrested in Lynchburg…

September 30, 1861 — The Mountains for the Union

A friend of ours who has just returned from a business trip through the counties of Mercer, Boyle, Lincoln, Pulaski and Wayne, brings the most cheering news. The Union cause is flourishing every-where. Even the Secessionists have declared for…