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The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1864., [Electronic resource] | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 9 (search)
An incident of the New-York Riot.--Mother, they may kill the body, but they cannot touch the soul!
was the language used by poor Abraham Franklin, as he was borne from the presence of his mother by the barbarous mob on the morning of the fourteenth ult. The young man, aged twenty-three, had been an invalid for about two years, and was a confirmed consumptive.
When the mob broke into the house they found him in bed. They bore him into the street, and there, although he had not raised a finger against them — indeed, was not able to do so — they beat him to death, hanged him to a lamp-post, cut his pantaloons off at the knees, cut bits of flesh out of his legs, and afterward set fire to him!
All this was done beneath the eyes of his widowed mother.
Such an exhibition of bloodthirstiness is without a parallel in the history of crime.
Patrick Butler and George Glass, both Irishmen, the latter fifty-three years of age, were arrested for the murder of Mr. Franklin.--Anglo-Africa
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., List of Massachusetts officers, and soldiers who died as prisoners. (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Burke , Joseph H. (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Index of names of persons. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], The loss of the steamer Dare --full Particulars. (search)
Latest from the North. Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 15.
--The Virginian has Northern dates of the 6th.
Butler has been placed in charge of all Confederate prisoners in the United States, and it is said there will be thirty thousand at Point Look out Md., within three weeks.
The Federal Government adheres to its purpose that no exchange shall take place except through Butler.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says we imagine the rebel authorities are now heartily ashamed of the ridiculous pretence of outlawry which they made the cause of suspending the exchange, on the just plan of man for man, commenced by Butler.
Archbishop Hughes is dead.
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Archbishop Hughes is dead.
Great honors were being paid his remains in New York.
His funeral was to take place last Thursday.
A majority of both Houses of Congress, it is said, are in favor of removing the capital from Washington, to some point, Northward, and the change is about being seriously discussed.
A special to the Cincinnati Commercial says that