150 years ago this month a grab bag of miscellaneous news was dominated by the war. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in March 1864:
News Miscellany.
No less than 500 of our prisoners in Richmond died during February.
The new Metropolitan Police Bill has been signed by Gov. Seymour and is now law.
Gen. Lew Wallace has been appointed to the command of Gen. Shenck’s old department with headquarters at Baltimore.
A sword, to cost three thousand dollars[,] is to be presented to Gen. Grant by the citizens of St. Louis.
A soldier named McDonough was shot in a melee at a card table in Dunkirk on Saturday.
Presumably McDonough was on furlough.
February 1864 was reported as a bad month for Union prisoners in Richmond. It was also the month that Andersonville prison opened in Georgia.
Dunkirk, NY in the 1890’s
