Friday, July 16, 2010

Movements in Alabama

(Tribune’s Dispatch)

Washington, April 14.

Gen. McCall reports that he has occupied two other important points on the railroad; Decatur to the west, and a station at some distance to the east of Huntsville.

The Bill emancipating the slaves in the District of Columbia was laid before the President at 4 o’clock this evening.

– Published in The Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862

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