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June 6, 1863 – Editorial Excess

The whiskey in Chattanooga must be dreadful stuff, judging by its effect on the fancy of the editor of the Rebel. He says:

The North has at length reached this point of internal combustion. The entire entrails of its body politic are diseased through and through. The great veins and arteries which once poured such electric life and such a flow of pure blood into the national cerebellum are dried up and decayed. Festering sores and fatal boils have broken out in every part. The scarlet hues of inflammation are relieved only by the disgusting gashes and seams of mortification; whilst over all the great broad, brawny, stalwart skeleton and frame-work of law and constitution, that upheld the whole, is falling in broken fragments, and slipping off in bits of rotten bone. The end is certain, though it may be slow. We shall live to see the day when all that remains of the more thriving, aspiring, and wealthy half of the Union will be a few old bones whitening on the great waste common of nationality.

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October 7, 1862 – The Battle of Iuka

General Grant has issued the following congratulatory order:

Headq’rs Dist. of West Tennessee
Corinth, MS, Sept. 20, 1862

General Order No. 1

The General commanding takes pleasure in congratulating the two wings of the army, commanded respectively by Maj. Gen. Ord and Maj. Gen. Rosecrans, upon the energy; alacrity, and bravery displayed by them on the 19th and 20th inst., in their movement against the enemy at Iuka.

Although the enemy was in numbers reputed far greater than their own, nothing was evinced by the troops but a burning desire to meet him, whatever his numbers, and however strong his position.

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April 15, 1862 – Latest From Grant’s Army

Jeff Davis Ordered the Battle

IT WAS FOUR DAYS BEHIND TIME

STRENGTH OF THE ARMIES

Incidents of Gallantry and Cowardice

BOGUS GOV. JOHNSON KILLED.

Special Dispatch to Chicago Tribune.

Cairo, April 14—m., 1862

Auditor Dubois and Gen. John Cook, of Springfield, left Pittsburg on Saturday, by mail packet Van Patten, and arrived here this morning. Gen. Cook is unwell and going home to recruit his health. From them and from others we learn additional particulars.

Gen. Hulburt lost, out of 7,000 men, in killed, wounded and missing, 1,983. He had a splendid army, choice troops, who fought like Turks. Lieut. Col. Tupper of Decatur was killed.

Colonel John A. Davis of Freeport is not dead, but is at Paducah, and feels sure he will recover.

Col. Bane, of the 50th Illinois, is dangerously wounded. Lieut. Colonel Phillips is also dangerously, and Col. Morley slightly.

“When the Illinois 11th were mustered on Monday morning they could bring but 45 men into the field. The 9th Illinois (Paine’s old regiment) mustered only 200 effective men. Col. Fry’s regiment were the only Illinois boys that acted badly. They had never been in action before.

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April 2, 1862 – Forced March Against a Rebel Camp at Union City

Chicago, April 1—A special dispatch to the Journal from Cairo says that Col. Buford yesterday, accompanied by the 27th and 47th Illinois Regiments, and part of the 15th Wisconsin Regiment, from the force near Island No. 10, with a detachment of cavalry and artillery from Hickman, under Col. Hedge, made a descent upon Union City, Tenn, after a forced march of 30 miles, and fell on the rebel encampment there at 7 o’clock In the morning, dispersing the entire force stationed there under Clay King, both cavalry and infantry.

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March 16, 1862 – Bounty to Soldiers

On motion of Mr. Garner, House bill No. 290, to grant bounty to volunteers enlisting in the Confederate service for three years or the war, was taken up. The amendment of the committee on military affairs, to appropriate two millions of dollars for the purposes of the bill and authorizing the Governor, in his discretion to issue treasury notes to that amount, adopted.