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Public Sale (April 23rd, 1862)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Notice: Wm B. Taylor will sell at the Frederick County jail a Negro woman slave for life, a good cook, washer and ironer.
Full DetailsHeavy Payments by Government (April 23rd, 1862)
>From The Herald of Freedom & Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: When the army left Washington Co. it owed local citizens $50,000-60,000 for flour, beef and other necessary articles. Much of this has now been paid.
Full DetailsWhat Is Their Object? (April 24th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: The goal of the Black Republicans is to establish military despotism in the Southern states and abolish slavery; everyone not an abolitionist will be considered disloyal
Full DetailsPoor Maryland? (April 24th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: With the abolition of slavery in DC, slaves in the adjoining counties will be nearly worthless; this is how Maryland is repaid for relying on the good faith of the Lincoln government
Full Details(April 24th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: The municipal elections in Hancock on April 7 resulted in the election of 4 Democrats and a "Bell man"
Full DetailsFifty Killed (April 25th, 1862)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Poem, "Fifty Killed," about the cost of even a battle won
Full Details4th Regiment Potomac Home Brigade Passes Through Middletown (April 25th, 1862)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: 4th Regiment of the P.H.B. pass through Middletown on way to Williamsport to cross the river into VA
Full DetailsMelancholy Affair (April 25th, 1862)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Jesse H Wharton of Hagerstown, a political prisoner jailed in Washington, shot and killed for disobeying orders of Ambrose Baker, guard
Full DetailsGeneral Rosencrans… [The News] (April 25th, 1862)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Gen. Rosencrans assigned to Blenker's division of the Army of the Potomac
Full DetailsThe Disloyal Knave (April 25th, 1862)
>From The Republican Citizen; Frederick, MD
Summary: Citizen editor warns County people to "be on their guard against the malignant Abolitionism of the Editor of the Examiner." Argues that Examiner editor supports Federal government's war not as "preserving the Constitution", but has become clear that the intent is to abolish slavery, not just in the seceded states, but in the border states which mostly support retaining slavery. Gives as example the Examiner editor's support of the proposal to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, and suspension of the fugitive slave law, actions opposed by the MD delegation. Citizen editor sees this as clear intent to abolish slavery in the border states. Asks why Federal army officers, who are paid out of pockets of MD as well as other states, are prohibited from returning escaped slaves who reach army encampments to their loyal owners. Examiner editor accused of stating value of the 3,000 slaves in the County has declined 80 percent, worth about half a million dollars. Citizen editor argues that, if fugitive slave law were supported by the government, the correct value of slaves in the county would be 2.5 million dollars. Examiner editor would sustain any anti-slavery action of the Government and thus citizens should be aware of the "unscrupulous Examiner editors "insidious wiles".
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