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Monument at Antietam Cemetery (July 15th, 1870)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Planning for a monument in the Antietam Cemetery in honor of the Union soldiers buried there
Full DetailsCamp Meeting (July 22nd, 1870)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: African M.E. church to hold a camp-meeting in Jonathan Routzahn's woods south of Middletown, Frederick County
Full DetailsStabbing Affray (September 9th, 1870)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: William Craig, a colored boy employed by Cornelius Staley near Yellow Springs, was stabbed by a colored boy named Johnson and was treated by Dr. Dunott.
Full DetailsCapt. John Ritchie… (September 23rd, 1870)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Capt. Ritchie, Democratic candidate for Congress from Frederick, wishes no Negro to vote for him; editor says that Negroes do not vote the Democratic ticket anyway.
Full DetailsEmancipation Celebration (September 23rd, 1870)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: The African Americans of New Market are going to hold an Emancipation celebration Iin Plummer's Grove.
Full DetailsPolitical (September 30th, 1870)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: John E. Smith, Republican congressional candidate made a speech inFrederick in response to "a serenade from the colored Republicans."
Full DetailsNumber of Colored Voters (September 30th, 1870)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: List of numbers of colored voters in the various districts of Frederick County, as well as in Washington and Carroll counties.
Full DetailsFrederick Douglass (October 13th, 1870)
>From The American Sentinel; Westminster, MD
Summary: Report on the appearance of Frederick Douglass at the Odd Fellows' Hall in Westminster
Full DetailsGrand Mass Meeting at Westminster, MD (October 13th, 1870)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: Invites the Democratic and Conservative White Men who oppose the 15th amendment, the mixture of "white children with negroes" in schools and "negroes holding office and controlling the government" to a mass political meeting
Full DetailsPublic Speaking (October 21st, 1870)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Gen. Adam King of Baltimore to address a Republican meeting in Middletown.
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