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Contributions for the Sick (April 9th, 1862)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Mrs. Bantz, President of the Ladies Union Relief Association, lists the donors' names and the items they donated for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers. Items include milk, eggs, custard, sugar, preserves, fruit, dried peaches, etc.
Full DetailsWill The People Save Their Institutions? (April 10th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: The people have suffered usurpations by the government that have made it a sham and a mockery
Full DetailsA Suicide (April 10th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: Jacob Erb, from near to Middletown, committed suicide shortly before he was to be prosecuted by an African American woman he assaulted
Full DetailsRelease of Marylanders from Fort Warren (April 10th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: Seven members of the Maryland legislature have been released from Fort Warren
Full DetailsGetting Their Rights (April 11th, 1862)
>From The American Sentinel; Westminster, MD
Summary: Irony of the rebellion is that South is losing slaves rather than saving slavery. Frederick newspaper quoted to show the decline in value of slaves since the start of the war.
Full DetailsBrother Against Brother (April 16th, 1862)
>From The Herald of Freedom & Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: The Hagerstown Mail reports that 3 sons of William Robertson fought in the engagement at Winchester, one as a Confederate, two as Federals. William, the Confederate, was killed.
Full DetailsA Contribution for the Soldiers (April 16th, 1862)
>From The Herald of Freedom & Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: Mrs. Daniel Blessing, Mrs. Gilbert and Mrs. Daniel Hammaker, of Cavetown, have donated a box of "delicacies" to the Ladies' Union Relief Assoc. for the sick soldiers.
Full DetailsWhat Is The War For? (April 17th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: The law abolishing slavery in Washington, D.C. and allowing African Americans to carry U.S. mail demonstrates to the author that the “war may possibly have some other object than the restoration of the Union”
Full DetailsCircuit Court for Carroll County (April 17th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: Emiline Haines, a white woman, was sentenced to eighteen months in the penitentiary for having fornicated with Mathew Ward, an African American man
Full DetailsCircuit Court for Carroll County (April 17th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: Mathew Ward, an African American man, was sentenced to be sold as a slave for life outside of the state for having fornicated with Emiline Haines, a white woman
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