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January 22, 1862 – Beware of Counterfeits
Our attention has been called to the manner in which one of the two dollar treasury notes of this State has been counterfeited, so as to make it pass for…
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January 3, 1862 – Counterfeiting the Flag
The trick adopted by the Yankees in their various battles with the Confederates of raising the Confederate flag and imitating the secret signals of the Confederates, is unprecedented in civilized…
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December 25, 1861 – The Laurel Spring Guards
This company is now at Camp Mangum, in Col. Leventhorpe's regiment. On their way here an excellent dinner was given them in Wilkes County, at the foot of the Blue…
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December 18, 1861 – Spies
The Richmond Examiner has repeatedly urged the impolicy of employing in the departments of the Confederate States at Richmond, persons with Yankee proclivities and those who held office under the…
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December 11, 1861 – Col. Ransom’s Regiment
One of the Potomac correspondents of the Richmond Dispatch gives a graphic and interesting account of the recent charge by a portion of Col. Ransom's cavalry regiment, by which 26…
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November 28, 1861 – Secession Rescinded in North Carolina
The Union men of North Carolina, and there are n large number of them in the eastern counties, have followed the examples of the rebels, though in favor of tho…
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November 19, 1861 – Opinions of the Press of Col. Singletary’s Late Expedition
The Charlotte Bulletin of the 11th in copying our remarks made some days ago headed “Render Unto Caezar,” &c., makes the remark which follow :
Col. Singletary.—We truly regret to learn that the brave, humane and dashing officer, whose name heads this notice, has been arrested by order of Gen. Hill, for having gone on an expedition without orders, but which has resulted in a way a thousand times more important than would have been the recapture of Hatteras, the Federal soldiers there, and the total destruction of the fort.
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September 21, 1861 – Getting on Swimmingly
The Union and American, of yesterday, publishes the following from a letter received in this city. We congratulate our friend on this lucky escape. We don’t think now, and never did, that be was born to be drowned :
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September 18, 1861 – Outdated Information
Sept. 14.—Four vessels had run into the Hatteras Inlet with English colors, under the supposition that that place still belonged to the rebels, the United States flag having been temporarily…
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September 14, 1861 – Latest News
The U. S. gunboats Conestoga and Lexington, on Tuesday, attacked a rebel battery of sixteen suns, on the Missouri side of h Mississippi river, near to Lucas bend, and, after an action silenced the battery, and disabled the rebel gunboat Yankee.
Charles H. Foster, a loyal member of Congress, from North Carolina, called on President Lincoln, and tendered to him a full brigade of loyalists from that State.
The lower house of the Kentucky Legislature yesterday adopted, by ayes 71, noes 26 resolutions directing the Governor to issue his proclamation ordering the rebel troops to evacuate Kentucky. The Legislature also refused to receive a resolution directing a proclamation to be issued for the departure of both the United States and rebel troops.