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Department of the Susquehanna (August 18th, 1863)
>From The Adams Sentinel; Gettysburg, PA
Summary: Notice states that no one is allowed to sell liquor to any individual connected to the military.
Full DetailsDisinterment of Bodies (August 18th, 1863)
>From The Adams Sentinel; Gettysburg, PA
Summary: Notice states that disinterment cannot take place until the Department of the Susquehanna authorizes it.
Full DetailsDrs. Cress & Taylor: Eclectic Physicians (August 18th, 1863)
>From The Adams Sentinel; Gettysburg, PA
Summary: Offers info. on Drs. Cress and Taylor and includes a segment where they allowed soldiers' families to be seen free of charge.
Full DetailsClaim Agency (August 18th, 1863)
>From The Adams Sentinel; Gettysburg, PA
Summary: Collection of Claims against government, including Military Bounties by attorney, R. G. McCreary.
Full DetailsNow is the Time to Make Money (August 18th, 1863)
>From The Adams Sentinel; Gettysburg, PA
Summary: Agents (men and women) wanted to promote a book explaining the course of the "War for the Union."
Full DetailsThe Rebel Excursion to the Keystone State (August 19th, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: A song taunting Confederate General Robert E. Lee harps on his recent failed invasion of the North and Union successes at Vicksburg and Port Hudson in the Western theater of the war.
Full DetailsCol. Creager and Negro Enlistments (August 19th, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Col. Creager enlisted upwards of fifty African Americans, including several slaves, at the African American Bethel Church and Ashbury Chapel’s graveyard in Frederick; one slaveholder, Ephraim Creager, complained of his duress to the Justice Wm. Mahoney who then charged Col. Creager with “enticing slaves away from their owners, contrary to the laws of the State.”
Full DetailsReleased from Fort McHenry (August 19th, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: H.J. Stable, editor of the Gettysburg Compiler, was released from Fort McHenry; Stable had been imprisoned following the Battle of Gettysburg on “charges of giving information to the Confederates.”
Full DetailsHospital Report (August 19th, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: A total of 753 patients remain at the General Hospital in Frederick.
Full DetailsLetter from Col. Creager (August 19th, 1863)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Col. J.P. Creager issued a letter noting that all of the African American men he enlists will be attributed to the quota of the county in which they were recruited.
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