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July 21, 1862 – From Harrison’s Landing

Headquarters Army Potomac, July 18.—A flag of truce went up yesterday from Turkey Island Creek, having on board Gen. Dix, who went to meet Gen. Hill for the purpose of making a permanent arrangement for an exchange of prisoners. The interview was highly satisfactory, but no conclusion being arrived at, the flag of truce will return to-day, when Gen. Lee will be present. Richmond papers of to-day contain accounts of the death of Gen. Twiggs at Augusta, .July 15th.

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July 19, 1862 – Gen. Pope Occupies Gordonsville

GREAT SENSATION AMONG THE SECESH.

New York, July 18.—The New York Tribunes Washington dispatch states: We have advices from Warrenton to-day. The news has been received that Gen. Hatch occupied Gordonsville. This has created great consternation among the leading rebels in Warrenton, who had not the least idea that Gen. Pope would reach that point without a great battle. Index, many of them said, would be held at all hazards, and that no Yankee army would be allowed to take it.

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July 18, 1862 – Habits of General Halleck

A correspondent writing from Corinth, Mississippi, sends the following in relation to the Commander in Chief of the Western armies:

There is yet no sign of an immediate intention of General Halleck to leave Corinth. But with him what is apparently improbable today may be certain tomorrow. Events may forecast their shadows but the move ments of General Halleck do not. His plans lie always buried in that safest of repositories—his own head—until the hour for their execution has arrived. Not even the members of his staff, holding the most confidential positions, share their burden until then. Independence of conception seems one of the main characteristics of his mind.

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July 17, 1862 – A Yankee Life-Preserver

Civil War era newspaper advertisement for "The Soldiers' Bullet Proof Vest", including many claims of lives saved.

The Yankees, it would seem, go into battles as they would go into water, with life-preservers on. We have had exhibited to us one of these steel breast-plates found on the persons of prisoners, and taken from the dead bodies of the slain. It is in the shape of the two breasts of a vest, and is made up in its folds, being sewed between the cloth and the lining. Except by its stiffness, and weight, which is about three pounds, it has all the appearance of an ordinary waistcoat. These steel waistcoats are manufactured in New York, and are quite in vogue in the Yankee army, especially among the officers. They are purchased at twenty five dollars apiece, and are warranted to repel a musket or pistol ball at ordinary range.

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Reverend With Habit of Eloping Again Out of Sight

South Bend. Ind. July 15—(AP)—The avowed intention of Rev. Wilson Culp of South Bend to bring an end to his career of elopments and devote the rest of his life to his wife and nine children has evidently been cast aside, as he has again disappeared. Mrs. Dorothy Culp his sister-in-law, of Napanee, Ind., is also missing.

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Students Jeer Women

Germans Break Up Meeting of Congress in Austria

INNSBRUCK. Austria, July14 (AP).—A meeting of a women’s congress was broken up here last evening by interruptions caused by several hundred German Nationalist students, who whistled, stamped their feet and shouted jeering remarks whenever French or English women began to speak.

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July 14, 1862 – Death of Col. Cass

Colonel Cass, of the 9th Massachusetts Regiment

The gallant commander of the ninth Massachusetts regiment died at his residence in Boston, Saturday morning, from injuries received in the battle of July 1st. Col. Cass was an old resident of Boston, an old member of the volunteer militia, and his position and popular qualities gave him great influence among his Irish fellow-citizens. When the war broke out he immediately tendered his services towards raising the regiment which he has since commanded. The regiment has done noble service, and has met with fearful losses. Officers and privates who knew no fear, and no other place of duty that that of danger, have fallen like leaves before an untimely storm.