15th Illinois Cavalry

Organized December 25, 1862, in the field and at Camp Butler, Ill., by assignment of Stewart's Independent Cavalry Battalion, organized at Jackson, Tenn., July, 1862, as Companies "A," "B," "C," "D," "E" and "F." Gilbert's Independent Cavalry Company, 52nd Illinois, organized at Geneva October 25, 1861, as Company "G." Kane County Independent Cavalry Company, organized September 1, 1861, as Company "H." Jenks' Company Dragoons, 36th Illinois, organized at Camp Hammond, Ill., September 23, 1861, as Company "I." Sherer's Company Dragoons, 36th Illinois, organized at Camp Hamilton, Ills., September 23, 1861, as Company "K." Ford's Cavalry Company, 53rd Illinois, organized at Ottawa, Ills., January 1, 1862, as Company "L." Company "K," 1st Illinois Cavalry, assigned as Company "M," but mustered out December 27, 1862.

Regiment attached to District of Columbus, 16th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to March, 1863. Cavalry Brigade, District of Corinth, 16th Army Corps, to June, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, to August, 1863. Detached Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1863. Waring's Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1864. District of Eastern Arkansas, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to January, 1865.

SERVICE.--Bath Springs, Miss., January 1, 1863. Monterey, Tenn., January 4. Clifton January 10. Chambers' Creek, near Hamburg, January 13. Near Obion River April 9 (Co. "E'). Expedition from Corinth to Courtland, Ala., and North Alabama April 15-May 8.  Burnsville, Ala., April 14. Dickson's Station April 17. Great Bear Creek and Cherokee Station April 17. Dickson's Station April 19. Rock Cut, near Tuscumbia, April 22. Tuscumbia and Florence April 23. Town Creek April 28. Expedition from Burnsville to Tupelo, Miss., May 2-8. King's Creek, near Tupelo, May 5. Obion Plank Road Crossing May -- (Co. "E"). Greenville, Miss., May 18 (Detachment). Expedition from Corinth to Florence, Ala., May 26-31. Florence May 28. Hamburg Landing May 30. Smith's Bridge, near Corinth, June 11 (Detachment). Iuka July 7. Duty about Memphis, Tenn., and Columbus, Ky., till January, 1864. Ordered to Helena, Ark. Post and garrison duty at Helena till January, 1865. Expedition from Helena up White River February 4-8, 1864. (Detachment.) Expedition up St. Francis River February 13-14 (Co. "G"). Expedition up White River February 20-26. Wallace's Ferry, Big Creek, July 26. Lamb's Plantation, near Helena, August 12 (Detachment). Operations in Eastern Arkansas August 1-5 (Co. "E"). Scout to Mt. Vernon August 22-25. Expedition up White River August 29-September 3 (Detachment). Kendall's Grist Mill September 3 (Detachment). Non-Veterans mustered out August 25, 1864. Veterans and Recruits consolidated to a Battalion, and consolidated with 10th Illinois Cavalry January 26, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 12 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 122 Enlisted men by disease. Total 137.

Companies "F" and "I" detached and moved to Memphis, thence to Vicksburg, Miss., May 13-20, 1863. Attached to Herron's Division, 13th Army Corps, to July, 1863. Cavalry, 2nd Division, 13th Army Corps, to August, 1863. Cavalry Brigade, 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, to September, 1863. 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, Gulf, to November, 1863. 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, Gulf, to December, 1863. Unattached Cavalry, Dept. Gulf, to January, 1864. Participated in Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 20-July 4, 1863. Engaged in outpost duty on Big Black River. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Assault on Jackson July 12. Ordered to Dept. of the Gulf with 13th Corps August 17. Western Louisiana Campaign and operations in the Teche Country October 3-November 30. Reconnoissance toward Opelousas October 20. Opelousas and Barre Landing October 21 (Co. "F"). Company "I" at New Iberia till January 5, 1864, then reported to Gen. Lee as escort. Companies ordered to Illinois on Veteran furlough February 11, and rejoined Regiment at Helena, Ark.

Company "H"--formerly Kane County Cavalry Company (which see)--served detached. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd (Cavalry) Division, District Eastern Arkansas, Dept. Tennessee, December, 1862. Sherman's Yazoo Expedition to January, 1863. Headquarters Gen. Blair, 15th Army Corps, to August, 1863. Headquarters Arkansas Expedition to January, 1864. Participated in Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 22, 1862-January 3, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28. Chickasaw Bluff December 29. Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark., January 3-10, 1863. Fort Hindman January 10-11. Reconnoissance toward White River and St. Charles January 13. Moved to Young's Point, La. Duty there and at Milliken's Bend, operating against Vicksburg, Miss., till April. Expedition from Milliken's Bend to Greenville, Black Bayou and Deer Creek April 2-14. Deer Creek April 10. Battle of Jackson, Miss., May 14. Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Ordered to Helena, Ark., July 24. Steele's Expedition against Little Rock, Ark., August 1-September 10. Capture of Little Rock September 10, and duty there till January, 1864. Rejoined Regiment.

Company "K"--formerly Sherer's Independent Company (which see)--served detached at Headquarters, Right Wing 14th Army Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. Headquarters 20th Army Corps, Army Cumberland, to October, 1863. Headquarters 11th and 12th Army Corps to April, 1864. Headquarters 20th Army Corps, Army Cumberland, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.--At Murfreesboro, Tenn., till June, 1863. Actions at Rover, Tenn., March 15. Salem March 21. Near Murfreesboro March 22. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 22-July 7. Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Battle of Chickamauga, Ga., September 19-20. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Battles of Lookout Mountain November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May to September, 1864. Battle of Resaca May 13-14. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Chattahoochie River July 3-17. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August 26-September 2. Occupation of Atlanta September 2-November 15. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Mount Elon, S.C., February 27. Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro and Raleigh. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1030-1

Illinois Soldiers Drowned

BATESVILLE, Ark., May 10. – A flat boat capsized last night in 12 feet of whater, while crossing White River, having on board two officers and some twenty men belonging to the 3d Illinois cavalry, a loaded wagon, one six mule team and several horses.

Capt. McClelland and five of his men were carried down with the wagon ad drowned: – Captain Thos. G. McClelland, Company H, of Fulton county, Ill., Sergeant Jas. W. White, of Company D, John Bennington, Company K; Wm. P. Heard, Company A; Wm. Westbrook, Company E; Wm. F. Shoemate, Company E.

The river is being raked for the bodies.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3

Suffolk Taken

To Hon. E. M. STANTON, Sec’y of War:

FT. MONROE, May 14. – We have Suffolk.  It was taken last evening by Major Dodge.  All is quiet.

Major General McClellan’s troops are at Cumberland.

(Signed.)

JOHN E. WOOL, Major General.

Cumberland is in Kent county, on York river, on the line of the Railroad leading to Richmond and about twenty-five miles east of the latter place.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3

Washington News

WASHINGTON, May 14. – Robert Morris, Esq., Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, left here to-day for the headquarters of General McClellan, bearing with him a handsomely engrossed copy of the resolution of thanks, passed by the House on Friday last.  Mr. Morris, by direction of the Clerk of the House, will deliver these to the General in person.

The military department, as recently restored, included the State of Kansas, the Indian territory west of Arkansas, and the Territories of Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada, with the head quarters at Fort Leavenworth.

WASHINGTON, May 15. – In addition to the steamers Hero and Kent, which brought hither the released Union prisoners last night, the Kennebec has arrived with 450 wounded rebels from Williamsburg.  The men are, the greater part, slightly wounded, and are attended by rebel surgeons and nurses.  A strict guard is kept over this boat.  No visitors are permitted.

The State of Main [sic] also arrived with about with about 330, the J. H. Warner with 400 and the Elm City with 450 sick and wounded prisoners form different Union regiments.  They are being removed to the various hospitals today.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3

From Fortress Monroe

NEW YORK, May 15. – A Fortress Monroe letter of the 13^th says the deserters who are constantly coming in, agree in their statements that the evacuation of Richmond is rapidly progressing, and that the effort of retreating rebels is merely to hold back Gen. McClellan so as to obtain time to remove their stores.  They also say that the destruction of the city by fire is threatened and that it will require the utmost efforts on the part of the citizens to prevent its consummation.  That the evacuation is now progressing there is no manner of doubt, and the government archives are being carried South.

The story of the enemy’s lack of provisions is denied by their deserters, who say that there is plenty of subsistence at Corinth.

The U. S. gunboat Catawba arrived this morning in eighty hours from Port Royal.  The Catawba has 6982 bags of unginned cotton on board..  News unimportant.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3

From Cairo

(Special to the Hawk-Eye.)

CAIRO, May 14.

The steamers Memphis and Thomas, just arrived from Pittsburg Landing, bring little news of importance.  The Memphis brings 400 sick.

Deserters from Corinth are coming in hourly.  They report 200,000 men under Beauregard, and say our forces are reported to them at 350,000.

The woods about Corinth were full of deserters.  A Mississippi Regiment is placed as guard.  Thirty dollars was offered for the arrest of each deserter.

The Memphis Avalanche says the Federal fleet was returning to New Orleans, and glories over the late victory at Fort Pillow – says they lost two men killed and eight wounded.

STREET.

CAIRO, May 15.

Gen. Mitchell has reached Corinth, bringing over two thousand prisoners, taken in Alabama.

The rebel cavalry are roving over the country, between the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, doing what damage they can, and keeping the inhabitants in constant terror.

Gov. Yates and staff arrived this evening on a special train, on their way to Shiloh.

The Gunboat Louisville has rejoined the fleet.

The rebels tried to shell our mortar fleet which lay behind Craigheld’s point, but it remained uninjured.

The gunboat Mound City will soon be ready for active service again.

A secret letter of Jeff. Davis has reached us.  He calls for deeds of patriotism and hopes to receive dispatches of success.

STREET.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3

Meeting of Conservative Congressmen

WASHINGTON, May 13. -  A meeting of all the conservative members of Congress from all the States to defeat the schemes of the abolitionist and secessionist was held this evening in the hall of Representatives.  Mr. Crittenden in the Chair and Mr. Cox, Secretary.

Mr. Richardson, to test the sense of the meeting moved that the Chairman have power to call them together whenever it shall again become necessary, in order that they might make arrangements for defeating objectionable measures.  There was no legislation pending of which they knew enough to determine what course to take.  They were in the midst of shifting scenes.  He therefore suggested that the report proposed be not submitted, for when a report was adopted there was no recalling it.  They should hold themselves in readiness to act on all measures as policy might dictate.

Mr. Kellogg concurred in the suggestions.  He thought the results of the meeting on Saturday highly beneficial.  He referred to the modifications of the bill, rendered to secure freedom to the persons within the territories of the United States, it having been stripped of its other features.

Mr. Cox said we had not killed the abolition business yet.  All conservative men ought to consult upon what action should be pursued at all times.  The committee to be appointed ought to see that their friends are in their seats to defeat mischievous legislation, and some plan for convening and combining at any time when necessary.

Mr. Mallory coincided with the view just expressed.  It finally concluded to appoint a Committee of 7 members for the purposes suggested.

Mr. Crittenden suggested that it was desirable that Congress should adjourn at an early day.

Mr. Wickliffe said it appeared the Senate determined not to adjourn, and had rejected the house resolution fixing the time.

Mr. Mallory remarked that he had a conversation with Senator Fessenden, and was informed by him that they would be ready to adjourn by the middle of June.

Senator Powell said he had heard some extreme men remark they would not adjourn during the war.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3

Special to New York Papers

(Herald Dispatch.)

WASHINGTON, May 13. – Matters in the Department of the Rappahannock remain unchanged.  The enemy’s pickets are stationed about five miles beyond Fredericksburg, consisting principally of cavalry.  The only infantry pickets being on the Bowling Green road.  The great body of the enemy has fallen back and they are not now supported in this vicinity.

The railroad bridge across the Rappahannock under the supervision of Gen. Gibbons, is rapidly approaching completion, as are all the other necessary repairs to the road.

Several residents of Fredericksburgh have been arrested for treason and sent to Washington.

(Times Correspondence.)

FRANKLIN, Va., via Green Springs and Baltimore, May 13. – Gen. Fremont arrived here early to-day at the head of his army, having come by forced marches to the relief of Schenck and Millroy.  He immediately reviewed the regiments stationed here, and rode a little beyond the town.  The enemy decamped last night and are now retreating.

In the late battle at McDowell our loss was 80 killed and about 200 wounded – many but slightly.

The troops are all in high spirits and full of expectation.

(Special to Tribune.)

WASHINGTON, May 13. – The Judiciary Committee of the House have agreed to report in favor of the 3d member from California.

A delegation from Columbus, Ohio, urged the claims of that place as a site for a National Armory before the Military Committee of the House to-day.

Acting Provost Marshal, Col. Gats, yesterday took charge of the Post Office at Fredericksburgh, outing the rebel Postmaster, who has held the same office for twenty years under the Federal Government, and grown rich upon it. -   Horn had the effrontery to demand forty five dollars, which he said the U. S. Post Office Department owed him, and which he hoped would be paid in gold.

WASHINGTON, May 13. – F. Throop, of the Contract P. O. Department, left Washington to-day for Norfolk to open the Post Office at that place.  The mails will be sent by the old rout via Fortress Monroe.

Representative Lovejoy’s bill, which has passed both Houses, establishes a Department of Agriculture, with a Commissioner’s salary of $3,000 per annum, as chief executive officer. – It is separate and distinct from all other Departments and exclusively devoted to Agriculture.

The recent act of the Legislature of New York, placing its canals at the service of the Government, so far as to allow the enlargement of its canal locks to a size adequate to the passage of vessels, to add to defend the Lakes from hostile attacks, was place on the table of Congress this morning, accompanied by a letter from Capt. Ericsson, and also by evidence furnished by extracts from the London Times showing the defenceless condition of American commerce on the Lakes and the ability of England at any time to take immediate and complete control of them.

(Special to Tribune.)

NEW YORK, May. – Montery, Tenn., May 12 – To-day our troops took possession of an evacuated rebel camp 8 ½ miles from Corinth, and the rebel pickets were driven in.

The Mobile Register of the 6^th states that five Federal gunboats appeared off Dolphin Island.

The New Orleans Delta of the 4^th records and interview between Gen. Butler and the mayor and Council, and says they will continue their functions, except upon political and military offences.  No oath of [allegiance] has been required.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3

From Fort Pillow

Flotilla off Ft. Wright, On board Steamer John Dickey, May 12, 8 A. M., via Cairo, May 13 – The rebels are reported as in an active state of preparation for the resumption of the fight near the fort.

A rebel deserter reports their rams not sunk but merely scattered. They are sawing busily to make good the damage, and promise to come again this morning. They are fully posted as to the damage done our fleet.

An officer of one of the Union boats took an observation yesterday and confirms the report of deserters as regards the floating condition of the rams.

Our own rams and more gunboats are hourly expected. Capt. Stemble is not as badly injured as was first supposed, and hopes are entertained of his recovery. Mosier is suffering greatly.

The rebels have not yet made good their promise to come again and fight the battle over.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3

Committed Suicide

MUSCATINE, IOWA, May 14 – A young man named Charles Robinson of Burlington, 17 years of age, committed suicide at Ogelvie House in this city, yesterday afternoon by taking strychnine.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3

Horrible Murder

From the Knoxville Register.

“This community was inexpressibly shocked to-day by intelligence of the murder of Gen. Wm. R. Casswell, by some unknown fiend, near his residence, some six miles east of this city.  The only particulars we have of the affair is that he was found about half a mile from his own home with his throat cut.  His servants report that they saw him struggling with some one in the road, but before they could reach him life was extinct and the murderer fled.  Immediately upon receipt of the intelligence here a party of our citizens mounted horses and started out to scour the country in search of the assassin.

The General was in the city yesterday and interchanged greetings with numerous friends.

Gen. C. was about 51 or 52 years of age.  He was one of the most universally esteemed and respected of our citizens.  Perhaps no man who occupied as prominent a position as a public man ever enjoyed more personal popularity.  Affable in his demeanor to everyone, kind and generous and upright and just in all his transactions.  It is remarkable that he should have an enemy so desperate a character as his slayer must have been.  The affair is as inexplicable as horrible.

Gen. Caswell was a distinguished soldier, having served through the Mexican campaign.  He was one of the earliest in this city to embrace the cause of the South at the breaking out of the war.  He was appointed by Gov. Harris a Brigadier in the State service, and commanded the forces rendez-voused here until they were turned over to the Confederate Government when he returned to private life.

P. S.  Passengers by the train last night from above say the report at McMillans station was that Gen. Caswell had been assassinated by a party of men, who fired upon him from the woods, and after he had fallen from his horse, rushed upon him and mangled him with their knives.  A company of cavalry has been sent out to search for the perpetrators.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

Ledger Time

NEW YORK, May 14. – The celebrated Bonner team trotted 2 miles on the fashion course yesterday in five minutes, one and a quarter seconds.  Bonner drove himself.  This is said to be 17½ seconds quicker than the same distance ever before known.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3

Trading With The Yankees

The citizens of St. Tammany Parish, La., having petitioned Gen. Ruggles, commanding as Provost Marshal General in that State, to be allowed to trade with the city of New Orleans, in provision, &c.  Gen. R. has returned the following able and patriotic answers, refusing the request:

FIRST DISTRICT PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL’S OFFICE,

TANGIPAHOA, July 11, 1862

To Messrs. H. B. Hand, Thomas Gillespie and other citizens of the Parish of St. Tammany:

GENTLEMEN – Your petition asking permission to open trade with the enemies of your country, who occupy New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the commercial and political capitals of your State, has been received by Gen. Ruggles, and I am directed by him to reply.

In doing so I beg leave to call your attention to General Order No. 2, from these headquarters, and to paragraph 1^st of General Order No. 9, from the Department Headquarters, prohibiting all intercourse and traffic with the enemy, or persons within in its lines, and announcing the penalty of death against those who engage in it.  Copies of these are herewith enclosed for your information.

These orders have been called for by the stern necessities of the times, and it is believed, have met with the most universal approval of the citizens of the country.  For is there anything novel in the regulation they prescribe, or the penalties they announce.  They but declare and clothe with penal sanctions doctrines long established and universally recognized.

Even in your communication, while asking to be exempt from their provisions, you recognize their justice, for you say: “We are aware that in time of war there should be no trade between beligerants.”  But you urge that yours is an exceptional case, and that to enforce this rule would subject you to great hardships.

For now more than twelve months your country has been engaged in a gigantic struggle for existence.  Her noble people have poured out their treasures as water, and like the ancient patriarchs, have not even withheld their children from the sacrifice, but have cheerfully sent them forth to encounter the toils of the march, the diseases of the camp and perils of the battlefield.  Hundreds of them have fallen by the wayside – thousands have lingered and died in the hospitals, many of them for want of medicines which could not be obtained; and thousands more have perished on the field of battle.  But their thin and wasted ranks have been filled by others eagerly pressing forward to take the place of the fallen, and to-day your flag is proudly born in the face of and behind the foe by men half-clothed, half-fed, and who for months have not known even the rude comforts of a soldier’s tent.  Nor has the army been alone in this respect; every class of society, as to a greater or less extent, been subjected to hardships and privations, which to their lasting honor be it said, have been firmly and even cheerfully borne.  And if, [gentlemen[, the time has come, when you are called upon to take your portion of the wide-spread suffering, the General commanding hopes and believes that you will not be found wanting in courage and fortitude to bear it like men and patriots.

You say that if not permitted to dispose of your bricks, lumber, etc., they will be “mere rubbish on your hands.”  You cannot be ignorant, gentlemen, that in this you but share the common fate of your fellow-citizens.  More than two hundred millions of dollars’ worth of produce is now held by the patriotic planters of the Confederate States, and so far from seeking to sell or barter this, they stand ready to destroy, and have in many instances voluntarily applied the torch, and with self-sacrificing devotion worthy of men who aspire to be free, calmly see it reduced to ashes, rather [than] sell even at the most exorbitant rates to the enemies of their country.  And if you will but turn your eyes to a neighboring parish, you may there see the very materials which you fear will become “rubbish” on your hands – though but recently formed into comfortable dwellings, and sheltering helpless women and children – reduced to heaps of “rubbish” and ashes, while their inmates have been driven to the woods, and deprived of all means of subsistence.  And this has been done by the very men with whom you would now open commercial intercourse, to whose avarice you would minister and whose wants you would supply.

The General commanding directs me in conclusion to say that regarding these prohibitions of traffic with the enemy, as essential to the successful defense of the country, he is determined rigidly to enforce them; and that any one who may be detected in attempting to evade or violate them will be promptly brought to condign punishment.

Very respectfully,

JAMES O. FUQUA,

District Provost Marshal Gen’l.

(Official.)

L. D. SANDIDGE, C.S.A., A.A.A.A. and Inspector General

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

Destructive Fire on Long Island

NEW YORK, May 13. – One of the most destructive fires which ever visited Long Island, has been raging for the last four days, destroying a large amount of property.  The fire broke out near Stonybrook, on Friday last, and was caused by the burning of a lot on the farm of Mr. Joel. L. G. Smith.  It has swept over an area of at least 60,000 square acres, principally in the town of Brook Haven.

It started the villagers [sic] of Stonybrook, Setauket, Port Jefferson, Mt. Senia and Miller’s Place on the North.  Law Village, Neden, Middle Island and Monroeville in the middle, and Patchague, Belost, Free Place, Mastic, Mooriches and Onoyne, on the south.

It passed some little distance from the villages of the North, while in the center it came so near as to endanger dwellings and human lives.  On the south side they suffered more severely at the village of Matic [sic].  It swept down to the great south Bay, where many barns and outbuildings were destroyed, and it is said several lives were lost in attempting to arrest its progress.

A Dispatch from Point Jefferson, May 12 says the damages is variously estimated at from $300,000 to $500,000.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3

Arrest Of Vallandingham

The New York Tribune of the 28^th ult., has a special dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, stating that Rev. D. Brooks, of St. Louis, and Rev. D. Hoyt, of Louisville, were arrested on Friday night at the house of a notorious rebel, Judge Clark, of Ohio.  It is reported that important papers were found on them, implicating Hon. C. G. Vallandingham, who will be taken to Cincinnati

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

Theodore F. Boggs Dead

We are deeply pained to chronicle the news that another member of Co. E, of the ever glorious Iowa Second, is dead. Theodore F. BOGGS died on Monday last, at the residence of his brother-in-law, James FEGAN, from the effects of a wound received at the Pittsburg battle. The wound was in the hand; Erysipelas broke out on his arm, which was much inflamed. The arm had been repeatedly lanced in the hope of doing good. The best of attention was given him, but his time had come. From the time of his arrival here on the 23d ult., he suffered terribly, and had wasted away to almost a shadow. At one o'clock on the 13th inst. he was released from his sufferings. During the greater part of his sickness he was delirious, and often called upon the various members of his company by name.

On Tuesday at 11 o'clock the burial took place. Rev. J. H. Rhea delivered an excellent discourse on the occasion. The members of Co. E, at home on furlough, and others, turned out, and escorted the corpse to its last resting place with military honors. At the grave Rev. R. Wilkinson delivered a short and impressive benediction, after which the mortal remains of the brave lad were hid forever from mortal view. Mr. BOGGS was in the 23d year of his age, and had endeared himself to a circle of friends. He was quiet and unassuming, and much liked by the members of his company.

– Published in the Fairfield Ledger, Fairfield, Iowa, Thursday, May 15, 1862, p. 3, col. 1.  transcription courtesy of Richard K. Thompson who posted it on findagrave.com

A Great Battle Soon Expected

MONTEREY, May 14. – A reconnoissance party under Brig.-Gen. A. J. Smith had a skirmish with the rebel pickets on our right yesterday, in which they had 2 killed 3 wounded and 5 captured.  Our loss is 2.  The party went within half a mile of the rebel battery, which was supported by a brigade of infantry, just outside of the entrenchments.  The Commanding General moves his camp to-day four miles from here to the front.  Our forces average 2 ½ to 3 miles from the intrenchments.  The army is advancing slowly because of the nature of the ground.  It is generally understood that the engagement will come off in the course of a week.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3

The Richmond Examiner urges . . .

. . . that the cartel for the exchange of prisoners delivers a surplus of 8,000 Yankee prisoners and leave citizens seized at will by the Yankees, to rot in dungeons.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

The Yankee Supreme Court

The Yankee Congress has passed a bill recasting the judicial districts which are presided over by different justices of the Supreme Court.  Among other districts, the following are coolly named: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney; South Carolina Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, Justice James M. Wayne; Louisiana, Texas, Arkansaw [sic], Kentucky and Tennessee, Justice John Catron.

Our old friend, - Judge W., is likely to have a leisure time of it. – Savannah Republican.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p 4

The Advance upon Richmond – Treasure from California

NEW YORK, May 14. – A Fort Monroe letter of the 12^th states that McClellan’s pickets were within 16 miles of Richmond, that the Monitor and Naugatuck had passed City Point towards Richmond, the Galena following.  The rebel steamers Yorktown and Jamestown were at Rockets, near Richmond.  These are only rumors.

The Champion, from Aspinwall, brings $484,000 in specie.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p.

A Diabolical Murder

The Leavenworth Bulletin, contains an account of one of the most fiendish instances of rebel crime that has marked their diabolical deeds during the war.

While the army was near Bentonville, Arkansas, last Spring, a secession young woman often visited the camp, and made herself very agreeable to the officers. A Lieutenant in the Second Indiana battery, named Masterson, became charmed with her, and she pretended to respond to the passion she had created. Their relations became quite intimate, and on occasion she invited him to visit her at the house of her uncle. He unsuspectingly availed himself of the opportunity to spend an afternoon in her society. Having been with her about two hours, she went to the window and raised it, and at the same moment twelve guerillas appeared and fired upon him. He fell dead in the house, and was carried off to a mill-pond and his body thrown into the water. Some four days after, the body floated to the shore, and was buried by an old man, and his son. After the lapse of four weeks the body was found, disinterred and identified by the comrades of the unfortunate Lieutenant. The day after the commission of the foul deed, the following note was found under the pillow of the young woman, written, apparently, on the eve of a flight in the night time, to escape the search that followed the next day:

My Dear Uncle and Aunt:

I have succeeded. My beauty which you have always told me was not worth a fig in life, has to-day accomplished as much as the patriot General in our glorious Confederacy. I am content to offer my beauty, virtue, even life itself, upon my country's altar. My bleeding country demands the sacrifice, willingly I obey!  I cannot visit your house any more until this war closes, which I pray God may be soon, but when it does stop, I hope to come and receive the blessings of you both on the head of  Your

Tomphina.

–        Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, January 10, 1863, p. 1

NOTE:  This is a reconstructed article.  This article was caught in the binding of the newspaper.  Consequently the first few words of each line are missing from the microfilmed newspaper article.  I have done an internet search and found one transcription of the article which ran in the Nashville Daily Union, December 23, 1862, page 2, column 2.  There are differences between the transcription and what was visible in the Union Sentinel article.  Where differences occurred I deferred to the Union Sentinel article.  I have not yet checked the Nashville Daily Union.

Change Of Prison

The Hundred and Fifty odd Yankee officers, including generals, majors, colonels, lieutenants, and captains, were yesterday removed from their quarters on eighteenth street, and more closely confined in the noted Libby prison, corner of Twentieth and Cary streets, which is now nearly emptied of the Yankee wounded.  The officers left their rather comfortable quarters reluctantly, but the misconduct of some of them rendered the change necessary and imperative.  Their personal effects – cots, lounges and baggage – were all removed with them, and carts were running all day between the two places.  It is to be hoped if their comfort is not enhanced here, their security will be. – Richmond Examiner.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

Died

On the 15^th Inst., FRANCES LUALLA, infant daughter of Albert [B.] and Eunice V. [Auer or Aner], aged 17 months.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Married

On the 6^th inst., at the residents of the bride’s father near Burlington, by Rev. W. Salter, Mr. EBEN IVES to Miss CAROLINE ARNOLD, daughter of Rodney Arnold, Esq.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

From New Orleans

General Butler’s Proclamation to the People of the City.

Memphis papers of the 6^th & 7^th have been received by the Cincinnati Commercial.  The most important news contained in them is that from New Orleans.

GEN. BUTLER’S PROCLAMATION.

The flowing proclamation of General Butler appears in the N. O. Delta of Saturday, May 3.  It was issued on the occasion of Gen. Butler assuming control as Military Governor.  The proclamation was handed to the newspaper editors with the request that it should be published.  All the offices refused to print it.  A guard was then sent to the True Delta office, possession taken, northern printers sent for, the document set up, put in the form, and worked off in the regular edition of the paper.

HEADQUARTERS DEP’T OF THE GULF,

NEW ORLEANS, May, 1862

The city of New Orleans and its environs, with all its interior and exterior defences, having been surrendered to the combined naval and land forces of the United States, who have come to restore order, maintain public tranquility, enforce peace and quiet under the laws and constitution of the United States, the Major General commanding the forces of the United States in the Department of the Gulf hereby makes known and proclaims the object and purposes of the government of the United States in thus taking possession of the city of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana, and the rules and regulations by which the laws of the United States will be for the present, and during a state of war, enforced and maintained, for the plain guidance of all good citizens of the United States as well as others who may heretofore have been in rebellion against their authority.

Thrice before, has the city of New Orleans been rescued from the hands of a foreign government, and still more calamitous domestic insurrection, by the money and arms of the United States.  It has of late been under the military control of the rebel forces, claiming to be the peculiar friends of its citizens; and at each time, in the judgment of the commander of the military forces holding it, it has been found necessary to preserve order and maintain quiet by the administration of law martial.  Even during the interim from its evacuation by the rebel soldiers and its actual possession by the soldiers of the United States, the civil authorities of the city have found it necessary to call for the intervention of an armed body known as the “European Legion” to preserve pubic tranquility.  The commanding General, therefore, will cause the city to be governed until the restoration of municipal authority, and his further orders, by the law martial – a measure for which it would seem the previous recital furnishes sufficient precedents.

All persons in arms against the United States are required to surrender themselves with their arms, equipments, and munitions of war.  The body known as the “European Legion” not being understood to be in arms against the United States, but organized to protect lives and property of the citizens, are invited to still cooperate with the force of the United States to that end, and, so acting, will not be included in the terms of this order, but will report to these headquarters.

All ensigns, flags, and devices, tending to uphold any authority whatever, save, the flags of the United States, and the flags of the foreign Consulates, must not be exhibited, but suppressed.  The American ensign, the emblem of the United States, must be treated with the utmost deference and respect by all persons, under pain of severe punishment.

All persons well disposed towards the government of the United States, who shall renew the oath of allegiance, will receive the safeguard and protection of their persons and property of the armies of the United States, the violation of which is punishable with death.

All persons still holding allegiance to the Confederate States will be deemed rebels against the government of the United States, and regarded and treated as enemies thereof.

All foreigners not naturalized and claiming allegiance to their respective governments, and not having made oath of allegiance of to the supposed government of the Confederate States, will be protected in their persons and property as heretofore under the laws of the United States.

All persons who may heretofore have given their adherence to the supposed government of the Confederate States, or have been in their service, who shall lay down and deliver up their arms, and return to peaceful occupations, and preserve quiet and order, holding no further correspondence nor giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States, will not be disturbed in person or property, except so far, under the orders of the Commanding General as the exigencies of the public service may render necessary.

The keepers of all public property, whether State, National, or Confederate, such as collections of art, libraries, museums, as well as all public buildings, all munitions of war, and armed vessels, will at once make full returns  thereof to these headquarters, all manufacturers of arms and munitions of war will report to these headquarters their kind and places of business.

All rights of property, of whatever kind, will be held inviolate, subject only to the law of the United States.

All individuals are enjoined to pursue their usual avocations, all shops and places of business and amusement are to be kept open in the usual manner, and services to be held in churches and religious houses, as in times of profound peace.  Keepers of all public houses, coffee houses, and drinking saloons, are to report their names and numbers to the office of the Provost Marshal, and will there receive licenses and be held responsible for all disorders and disturbances of the peace arising in their respective places.

A sufficient force will be kept in the city to preserve order and maintain the laws.

The killing of an American soldier by any disorderly person or mob is simply assassination and murder, and not war, and will be so regarded and punished.

The owner of any house or building in or from which such murder shall be committed will be held responsible therefore, and the house be liable to be destroyed by the military authority.

All disorders and disturbances of the peace done by combination and numbers, and crimes of an aggravated nature, interfering with forces or laws of the United States, will be referred to a military court for trial and punishment.  Other misdemeanors will be subject to the municipal authority, if it chooses to act.  Civil causes between party and party will be referred to the ordinary tribunals.

The levy and collection of taxes, save those imposed by the laws of the United States, are suppressed, except those keeping in repair and lighting the streets, and for sanitary purposes.  These are to be collected in the usual manner.

The circulation of Confederate bonds, evidences of the debt, except notes in the similitude of bank notes, issued by the Confederate States, or scrip, or any trade in the same, is strictly forbidden.  It having been represented to the Commanding General by the civil authorities that these Confederate notes in the form of bank notes are, in a great measure, the only substitutes for money which the people have been allowed to have, and that great distress would ensue among the poorer classes if the circulation of such notes was suppressed, such circulation will be permitted so long as any one may be in considerate enough to receive them, till further orders.

No publications, either by newspapers, pamphlet, or handbill, giving accounts of the movements of soldiers of the United States within this department, reflecting in any way upon the United States or its officers, or tending in any way to influence the public mind against the Government of the United States, will be permitted, all articles of war news, or editorial comments, or correspondence, making comments upon the movements of the armies of the United States, or the rebels, must be submitted to the examination of an officer who will be detailed for that purpose from these headquarters.

The transmission of all communications by telegraph will be under the charge of an officer from these headquarters.

The armies of the United States came here not to destroy, but to make good, to restore order out of chaos, and the government of laws in the place of the passion of men; to this end, therefore, the efforts of all well-disposed are invited to have every species of disorder quelled and, if any soldier of the United States should so far forget his duty or his flag as to commit any outrage upon any person or property, the Commanding General requests that his name be instantly reported to the provost guard, so that he may be punished and his wrongful act redressed.

The municipal authority, so far as the police of the city and crimes are concerned, to the extent before indicated, is hereby suspended.

All assemblages of persons in the streets either by day or by night, tend to disorder and are forbidden.

The various companies composing the Fire Department in New Orleans will be permitted to retain their organizations, and are to report to the office of the Provost Marshal, so that they may be known and not interfered with in their duties.

And, finally, it may be sufficient to add, without further enumeration, that the requirements of martial law will be imposed so long as in the judgment of the United States authorities it may be necessary.  And while it is the desire of these authorities to exercise this government mildly, and after the usages of the past, it must not be supposed that it will not be vigorously and firmly administered as occasion calls.

By command of Major General Butler.

GEO. B. STRONG, A. A. G., Chief of Staff.

From the Memphis avalanche, 7^th

LATEST FROM NEW ORLEANS.

We have advices from New Orleans up to Saturday morning, 11 o’clock.  Gen. Butler had taken the St. Charles Hotel for his headquarters, and the Evans House on Poydras St., had been converted into a hospital.  The Jackson Railroad depot was taken possession of Saturday morning about 25 minutes past 11 o’clock.  Federal pickets had been extended out as far as the crossing of the Jefferson and Jackson Railroads.  Four gunboats and one transport started for Baton Rouge on Saturday morning at 9 o’clock.  When they had gone up some sixteen miles from New Orleans, a small boat was sent ashore, and a section of telegraph wire from post to post was cut, so that the line could not be operated without putting in a new wire.  Up to the time our informant left, 11 o’clock Saturday morning, only seven full federal regiments had been landed in New Orleans.  The last train of cars from Jackson went down to “Kenner’s” on Sunday, and our informant states that it was understood that no train would hereafter be permitted to go down further than “Prairies,” some twenty miles from the city.

All the prisoners in our forts and on the gun boats had been paroled, except only the commander of the Louisiana, who after the forts had surrendered, cut loose the boat, set her on fire, and let her drift down the stream to a certain point, where she blew up and disappeared from mortal vision.  For this act, after the surrender was made, he was sent to New York.  Vast quantities of molasses, sugar, and cotton were destroyed.  Only eighty bales of cotton could be found in the city, and that belonged to an Englishman, and was not destroyed.  Provisions are represented as more plentiful, though flour still ranges from $25 to $30 per barrel.  Al the papers in New Orleans are still published, though a Federal censor is placed over every office to examine all the matter and exclude whatever may prove inimical to the Federal cause.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Deserters From the Enemy

The Rockingham Register says that desertion from the Yankee army since its attempted occupation of the Valley of Virginia have been quite numerous.  Those seen by the editor concurred in stating that if others of their companions in arms knew that they would be received kindly in the Confederate lines that whole companies and regiments would desert.  They represent the Federal service as too intolerable to be borne, especially as it obliges many who really love the South and have friends and kinsmen in the Southern Confederacy to lift their hands against their best friends.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

The Bayonet Charge of Hancock’s Brigade

This brilliant affair, at the Battle of Williamsburg, is thus described by a corresponded of the New York World:

There burst from the woods on our right flank a battalion of rebel, cavalry!  There, to the right and left of the horse, three regiments of infantry supporting it!

A terrible moment!  Four thousand infantry marching in at the same period of the battle turned and routed our eighteen thousand and Bull Run.  But a year has passed since then.  Yankees have learned how and when to fight.

Gen. Hancock was equal to the crisis.  Forming his infantry in a minute against this sudden attack, he held them in magnificent order, while the rebel foot and horse came on, cheering, firing, and charging in gallant and imposing style.  Our artillery wheeled and poured hot volleys into them as they came, and over five thousand muskets riddled them through and through.  But they kept on – nearer – nearer – closing up, and cheering, and sure of their power to sweep us before them.

Thus swifter than I can write it, until their line, now broken and irregular, was panting within two hundred yards of our own unwavering column.  Then Hancock showed himself the coolest and bravest of the brave.  Taking off his hat, and using the courtly prefix of olden time, he said “Ready, now!  Gentlemen, CHARGE!”  Our whole line swept forward, as the reaper’s sickle goes through the corn.  Its keen edge had not yet touched the enemy when the latter broke simultaneously, fled in confusion to the rear of its stronghold, and the field of Williamsburg was won.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2

Andrew Donnan

Pvt., Co. I, 16^th Iowa Infantry

Died of Chronic diarrhea July 4, 1862 at Keokuk, Iowa

Keokuk National Cemetery

Keokuk, Iowa

The Confederate Arsenal and Armory at . . .

. . . Fayetteville, N. C., may now be said to be in full blast; at least there is nothing pertaining to the Minnie rifle and sabre bayonet that cannot be manufactured there.  A good deal of the machinery and many of the tools are new, and equal to any in the world.  A few days since a large lot of rifles manufactured at the Armory, was sent to the Chief of Ordinance, Richmond, Va.

Besides making new ones and altering old arms, the force at the Armory had been engaged lately in restoring and putting in order several thousand Enfield and Belgian rifles, swords, sabres and bayonets, and also several boxes of pistols received from the Modern Greece, considerably damaged.  They will soon be restored to their original appearance and condition by the industry and skill of the mechanics engaged.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

Wanted – A Miracle

It is related of a couple of raftsmen, taken by the current into deep water, that one of them, whose religious education in youth had not been altogether neglected, proposed that they offer up a prayer to God for their deliverance from peril.  The other, who knew the value of every moment’s strong exertion in such a situation, did not agree to the idea of giving up and throwing themselves upon the tender mercies of Providence, until every earthly resource had been exhausted.  He asked, “What was the use of praying as long as you can touch the bottom?”  Pretty soon the raft got irrecoverably into the deepest of the stream, and the little crew at once fell to supplicating Divine Grace in a very earnest if not quite orthodox manner.  Whether it was from lack of faith on the part of the raftsmen, or other reason, we have no account of the adventurers being saved.

The Confederate cause can no longer touch bottom.  It is adrift, about to be swallowed up by the engulfing waves of national patriotism, and we observe by reports that Mr. Davis, the Captain of the craft, has called “all hands and the cook” to prayers on Friday of the current week.  This impious recommendation, this conscription of the moral sentiment of the people of Dixie, this attempt to impress Providence into the rebel service, this violation of the Secession Constitution, which provides against religious tests, will avail nothing.  The Disunion raft is doomed.  Burnt cotton won’t save it.  The Mississippi may be sweetened with pyramids of sugar, but the rebellion will be crushed, even as the sugar is.  The brine of the Gulf may be spread over with split molasses, but that will not get the Confederacy out of its pickle.  The enemy may destroy all the tobacco in the Old Dominion – Virginia twist, natural leave, fine cut and pig tail – and the rebels deprive themselves of their rations and expectorations, but the attempt to disrupt the Union will, to use a low phrase, be “chawed up,” notwithstanding.

If secession impudence had not long since ceased to be surprising, we might be astonished at the bold assurance of Jeff. Davis and his band of dissenters in proposing to sue for an alliance with Providence, offensive and defensive.  The recognition which, with all the arts of Yancy, Dudley, Mann, Mason, Slidell, Butler, King and others.  They could not get from England or France, they now seek to obtain from Heaven.  Is Providence less conscientious than these mundane powers in respect to interference to break up our glorious Union?  God forbid!

One thing we notice about this reputed ukase of the rebel chieftain.  We fail to see in it any reference to “thanksgiving, fasting and prayer,” such as we sometimes have, but of prayer only, Mr. Davis doubtless being unable to specify what his people had reason to be thankful for; and as to fasting, the market reports from Norfolk, Petersburg and other Southern cities are sufficiently explicit on that head.  After all Davis is right.  A miracle might save the Confederacy, as a flanking movement, but that is all that can, from present appearance. – {St. Louis Republican.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1863, p. 2

New Orleans

THE CITY AT NIGHT.

Thanks to the precautions taken by the authorities and to the good sense and unshrinking patriotism of our citizens, by whom the authorities are efficiently supported in their efforts for the preservation of peace and the protection of property, the city at a late hour last night was peaceful and quiet as a country hamlet – as quiet as though no extraordinary excitement prevailed throughout the day; in fact, it was much quieter than in ordinary times.

New Orleans, in this hour of adversity, by the calm dignity she displays in the presence of the enemy, by the proof she gives of her unflinching determination to sustain the uttermost the righteous cause for which she has done so much and made such great sacrifices, by her serene endurance undismayed of the evil which afflicts her, abiding confidence in the not distant coming of better and brighter days of speedy deliverance from the enemy’s toils – is showing a bright example to her sister cities, and proving herself, in all respects worthy of the proud reception she has achieved.  We glory in being a citizen of this great metropolis

THE CITY.

On application to Gens. Juge and Maignan, the troops under their command, consisting of the European Brigade, were placed by the authorities in charge of the peace of the city last night.  They commenced their patrol about sun down, and still maintain it, for the preservation of order and private and public property.

The Provost Marshals suggest, in a proclamation issued yesterday that the family grocers and bakers keep open their stores and shops as usual.  This course is absolutely necessary to adopt, as otherwise those dependent upon such sources for supplies will be subjected to the severest suffering.

We learn that dealers in provisions and other necessary articles of trade refuse in some cases to receive Confederate money in payment for their goods.  This is very reprehensible, and is the cause of no little distress to poor people, who on the faith of the representations made to them by the authorities, have taken that money, and have now no other.

During the confusion incident to the events of yesterday license was taken by many persons to possess themselves of articles of private property from the levee and the stores and warehouses in the vicinity.  The Mayor has issued a proclamation warning all such to restore those articles to his office upon penalty of being proceeded against to the full extent of the law.

The Mayor of the city requests the services of all the order loving and law abiding citizens to assist the police in the protection of property, and the preservation of peace and quiet in the city.

It is also suggested by the authorities that all citizens not connected with the public service to retire to their homes at or before 9 o’clock P. M. – {N. O. Picayune

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1863, p. 2

On the night of the 3d day of July . . .

. . . the secessionists of Middletown, Delaware, hoisted a Confederate flag on a pole which had been erected by the Unionists, and that early on the morning of the 4^th the “Stars and Bars” were supported by forty rounds  by the supports of the Abolition Government.  When they discovered their mistake they were so enraged that they immediately hauled down the flag and tore it into shreds, and vigorously applied themselves to washing the pole with soap and water to cleanse it of the polluting effects of the Confederate banner.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3

The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate --- we can not consecrate --- we can not hallow --- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us---that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion---that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain---that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom --- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

– Delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863

SOURCE: Roy P. Basler, Editor, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 7, p. 23