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Hospital Report (April 15th, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: The article lists the number of sick and wounded at the U.S.A. General Hospital in Frederick (the Barracks) for the week ending April 10, 1863. From the previous report there were 520 patients and 12 more admitted. 27 men were returned to duty, 14 were discharged, 3 were transferred and 3 died. The three names and their units are hard to decipher from the newspaper copy, but appear to be from Indiana, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Full DetailsFor the "Valley Register" (April 15th, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Testimony defending a Frederick woman who was arrested when two Confederate prisoners escaped from her boarding house [Original report in April 8, 1863, issue of The Examiner]
Full DetailsIn this city… (April 15th, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Announcement of the marriage in Frederick city of Henry C. Edwards (?), Co. F, Maryland Volunteers to Miss Elizabeth M___ of Loudoun Co., VA on the 31st "ulto" by Rev. George Diehl.
Full DetailsAt Columbus, Ohio… (April 15th, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Obituary for Horace E. Schell, a Confederate soldier, who died in in his 17th year of a fatal disease contracted while a prisoner at Camp Chase [News story appears in column 2C on same publication date].
Full DetailsA Negro Woman at Public Sale (April 15th, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Notice: Public sale of a 40-year- old, female slave, slave for life, good cook, washer, ironer. Sold on April 18th at door of the jail in Frederick by Levi VanFossen, auctioneer. Terms: cash.
Full DetailsWanted (April 15th, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Advertisement: Seeking a slave child, male or female, between the ages of 9 (?) and 13 for a term of years. Apply to: H. Winchester, Frederick Female Seminary
Full DetailsA few queer things (April 17th, 1863)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: The editor lashes out at those who complain of high taxes, the property rights of slave owners, Negroes competing for jobs, and the evils of paper currency.
Full DetailsFamine at the South (April 22nd, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Report concerning bread riots which have broken out in Richmond and elsewhere in the Southern states. Some Southern newspapers attempt to characterize the riots as efforts to obtain luxury goods, but other newspapers, reports from deserters, private letters, etc. indicate the true extent of deprivation among citizens and the Rebel army. Confederate president Jefferson Davis admits in a proclamation to "one danger" which is the drought which occurred in 1862 and which he hopes will not affect the South in 1863. Davis makes an effort to hide the true extent of the famine, but the governors of North and South Carolina and other governors have voiced concerns. The article refers to the effectiveness of the Federal blockade and says that areas such as Western Virginia, central Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas which formerly supplied the Confederacy with food are no longer able to send supplies. Admiral Farragut controls most of the Mississippi River. This lack of adequate food is predicted to cause the collapse of the rebellion. "The Rebel soldier...can have but little heart for protracting the war, when he knows that his subsistence is robbing the loved ones at home." Also mentioned are those who are Southern sympathizers but are not suffering the deprivations. The Potomac blockade maintained locally by Gen. Schenk prevents goods from going South.
Full DetailsMajor General Schenck (April 22nd, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Editorial praising the efforts of Maj. Gen. Robert C. Schenck, currently in command of the military government of the Middle Department in Maryland, to deport Confederate sympathizers beyond Federal lines. The "energetic course of Maj. General Schenck has done much to repress the insolence of treason and cultivate a loyal sentiment" among the people. An excerpt expressing a similar opinion comes from the Baltimore Clipper which says Schenck is "regarded with unalloyed satisfaction by every true Union man, woman and child..." "All traitors are sent Judas-like to their own, despite their earnest protestations, their fierce exclamations and fiery indignation." "It delights the hearts of the loyal men of Maryland that this trash is being raked up and picked out to rot on the dunghill."
Full DetailsDistressing Case (April 22nd, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: The widow of a Wisconsin soldier recently killed at Martinsburg while on picket duty was harassed by a local woman of Confederate sympathy while on her way back to Wisconsin after burying her husband. No names are given. The Wisconsin woman received considerable help from Union people locally. She had accompanied her husband East because he was ill at the time he joined the service. He had recovered before he was killed, but she had not returned home.
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