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Seizure of More Arms (October 4th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: A company of Federal soldiers marched into Westminster, Carroll Co., and took possession of 22 guns that were the arms of the Smallwood Inf. Co. Other raids in Montgomery Co. and Baltimore.
Full DetailsProceedings of the Union County Convention (October 4th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Proceedings of the Union County Convention in Frederick, Dr. Wm. Bradley Tyler, Chairman. Included are names of other officers and nominees for state and local offices.
Full DetailsTo the Benevolent (October 4th, 1861)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: The Ladies of the Union Relief Society request Frederick Co. citizens to donate food for the relief of soldiers, through Mrs. Bantz or Mrs. Hardt.
Full DetailsLines Respectfully Dedicated to the Members of the Legislature Now Residing in Fort Lafayette (October 9th, 1861)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Poem written for the Examiner by "Slim James" addressed to the members of the MD Legislature imprisoned at Ft. Lafayette, beginning "Goodbye, ye Traitors…."
Full DetailsSeizure of Guns (October 9th, 1861)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Federal troops have seized weapons from the Liberty Rifles and arrested Capt. R.E. Simmons. Col. Geary's Regt. also seized guns from the Manor Guard, Capt. J.N. Chiswell. The units' loyalty is questionable.
Full DetailsUnion Nominations (October 9th, 1861)
>From The Herald of Freedom & Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: "The Union men of Frederick County have nominated Grayson Eichelberger for the State Senate…" Also list of 6 men nominated for House of Delegates; "Michael Zimmerman for Sheriff; for Surveyor David W. Roop, and for Judge of the Circuit Court, Hon. Madison Nelson." Also includes list of Union nominees from Allegany County.
Full DetailsTo District Officers! (October 9th, 1861)
>From The Herald of Freedom & Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: Newspaper printing office offers printing election tickets for Union Candidates "for their respective districts at fifty cents per hundred." Offer to print blank tickets for free.
Full DetailsThe Recent Outrage in This Town (October 9th, 1861)
>From The Herald of Freedom & Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: Soldiers from the 1st MD Regt. from Baltimore "assaulted the Hotel of J. A. Wright, the barber-shop of John Wagoner and the Grocery Store of J. H. Cretin…" all located on N. Potomac Street in Hagerstown; damaged property and goods. Article claims the soldiers were inebriated and attacked the businesses after being "assaulted with stones by peace men." Also notes that "an invalid soldier named Bushnell, of one of the Massachusetts Regts" was also hit with a stone by "rowdies." "When the Traitors of the South undertook to subvert the great central Government of our nation, they set an example of mobocracy..."
Full DetailsUnion Convention in District No. 7 (October 9th, 1861)
>From The Herald of Freedom & Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: The Schoolhouse in Smithsburg hosted a Union Convention to nominate District Officers; Nicholas Beard, Chairman; J. W. Barkdoll, Secretary. Jacob Hoffbine, H. W. Lyday, Jeremiah S. Besore appointed to draft governing rules which were unanimously adopted. Nominees for Magistrates, Constables, Supervisor named and voted upon. Meeting "adjourned to the square, where the people were addressed by their old fellow citizen, Daniel Witmer, Esq...admonished the people of Old Cavetown to stand by the Union no matter who be President, particularly Democrats..."
Full DetailsMcClellan Guards (October 9th, 1861)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: The McClellan Guards is a company of 90 men under the command of Capt. Alfred Schley of Liberty. The Guards were recently mustered into the "Public Guard Regiment" under Col. Wm. Louis Schley at Camp Hoffman, Baltimore. Some of the men are Frederick Co. residents. The Guards elected Alfred Schley as captain and J. P. Gleeson as first lieutenant.
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