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Illustration of a large body of cavalry crossing a river.
Posted inUS Civil War

June 19, 1863 – Movements Of The Confederates

HARRISBURG, June 18.—It is stated that a body of Confederates has gone from Cumberland, Maryland, to Romney, Virginia.

The authorities are busy organizing the troops, who continue to arrive in large numbers.

The work on the rifle-pits and fortifications on the other side of the Susquehanna is still going on. Much activity there, at Camp Curtin, and everywhere else in and about the city.

A sketch of Musolino produced around the time of his 1902 trial
Posted inCulture & Society Local Histories True Crime

Brigandage Increasing In Italy

Among the fruits of the unhappy condition into which exorbitant taxes, low wages, and other industrial evils have plunged the masses in Italy to-day is an increase in the number and activity of the robber bands infesting various parts of the kingdom. The excuse given by many of those who enter upon a life of brigandage is that the government takes every penny they earn by honest labor, and there is nothing left for them but to rob and plunder or die of starvation. Be that as it may, the brigand army is certainly being recruited at an alarming rate. It is said that in Sardinia alone last year nearly one hundred brigands were captured and some hundreds of followers arrested, including the mayors of several small towns! Southern Italy is infested, and the extent of the intimidation and robbery can hardly be grasped by the inhabitants of orderly communities.

Posted inUS Civil War

June 16, 1863 – Whereabouts Of The Rebels—Invasion Of Maryland

MONOCACY JUNCTION, 2 P. M.—While there is no doubt that the major force of the rebels which had besieged Winchester are still in Virginia, it is generally believed that the cavalry and artillery, under Jenkins, who had the fight with Gen. Tyler at Martinsburg, have crossed into Maryland, either above or at Williamsport. It is asserted here quite confidently that rebel cavalry were in Hagerstown at 8 o’clock this morning, but the only positive fact I have been able to learn is that the telegraph line between Frederick and Hagerstown has ceased entirely to work. As there was no storm to damage the line, the inference is that it has been cut, and of course that the rebels have done it. It was a so reported at Harper’s Ferry that a small force of rebel cavalry had been in Sharpsburg. The stage which left Hagerstown early this morning, passing through Middletown, arrived at the usual time, having met with no interruption; nothing having been seen or heard of the rebels along the turnpike.

Lt. Blas Nadal.
Posted inColonization & Indigenous Relations

Uncle Sam’s Porto Rican Soldiers

Lusty cheers greeted the men of a native Porto Rican battalion as they marched along with swinging gait in the parade that supplied the most picturesque feature of the second inauguration of President McKinley. Americans greeted as fellow Americans these men who, three years ago, were subjects of the King of Spain, but now belong to Uncle Sam. Certainly the Porto Ricans have well deserved the reputation of being ardent believers in American imperialism. After the fall of Spanish power in Porto Rico, General Miles reported that on his march to San Juan the people had literally overwhelmed him with their offers of service under the American flag. Had he possessed the arms, and had there been the necessity, General Miles is reported to have said he could have secured fifty thousand natives as volunteers against the Spaniards.