Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 4, 1861
Died: In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult., Mrs. Susannah Robinson, aged 59 years.
Died: In New Ohio [Broome Co., NY], on the 31t ult., Mr. Nelson Randall, aged 28 years.
Died: In Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], on the 30th ult., Mr. Warren Decker, aged 38 years.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 28th ult., Miss Mattie Stanley, aged 16 years.
Died: At sea, on the 16th ult., Mrs. Nellie M. [Baldwin] wife of the Rev. S.L. Baldwin, and daughter of Rev. B. W. Gorham, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], aged 21 years, 7 months, and 15 days.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 11, 1861
Died: In Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], on the 27th ult., Morgan S. Lewis, Esq., aged 36 years, 6 months and 9 days.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 18, 1861
Married: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 12th inst., by Rev. H. Dyer, Mr. William Card to Miss Lyda M. Carruth, all of Norwich.
Chenango American, Greene, NY, April 25, 1861
Married: In this village [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on Wednesday morning, the 24th inst., by Rev. JB. Hoyt, Mr. Henry L. Carr, of New York City, to Miss Frances R. Hoyt, youngest daughter of Chauncey Hoyt of this village.
Died: In Chenango Forks [Broome Co., NY], on the 22d inst. Mrs. Dorman, aged 70 years.
Died: In this town [Greene, Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th inst., infant child of Denisen Bingham.
Died: In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 24th inst., Mr. Jabez Manwarring, aged about 80 years.
Died: In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], April 17th, 1861, of typhoid fever, Samuel R. Billings, M.D., aged 28 years.
Died: In Galena, Illinois, on the 9th inst., Mrs. Mary C. Scott, wife of D.W. Scott, Esq., of Galena, and daughter of James Thompson, Esq., of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], aged 30 years.
Died: In North Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], on the 18th inst., Mrs. Phebe Wood, aged 72 years.
Happenings of the Times - Chenango American, April 25, 1861
The war spirit is aroused. The 19th day of April made memorable as the day upon which the first blood was spilled at Lexington, in the struggle for our liberties, is again hallowed as the day upon which the first blood has been shed in the Rebellion of 1861. Now as then, it is the blood of Massachusetts' sons which reddens the soil. By our report in another column it will be seen that traitors have slain American soldiers on a peaceful march to defend the National Capitol. This outrage has added to the already kindling enthusiasm at the North, and from every city and village, patriots are marching to the defense of the Stars and Stripes, burning with a desire to avenge the blood of their fellows. Millions upon millions of money are freely given, and thousands upon thousands of stout hearts and brawny arms are flocking around the glorious standard. Never were our people so thoroughly aroused. The war is the theme of every tongue and of every pen. The National flag floats in the breeze wherever the eye may turn, and each citizen vies with his neighbor in giving evidence of patriotism and love of country. No one talks of politics now. The causes which have led to this terrible state of affairs are not discussed. The only question now is "Shall the traitorous rebellion be crushed, or shall it crush this Government?" One of these issues is inevitable, and there is no time for harping upon past follies if we would save the country. The rallying cry is, "Our Country --May she ever be Right, but Right or Wrong, Our country!"
The Civil War! The First Blood Shed at Baltimore
In Response to the call of the President for $75,000 troops, the various States immediately commenced arming and forwarding soldiers to Washington. The 7th Regiment of Massachusetts and the Pennsylvania volunteers were the first to respond to the call.
A desperate secession mob, in Baltimore, had resolved that no troops should pass through that city, on their way to Washington. On the arrival at Baltimore of the train containing these troops, a mob assembled in the streets to resist their passage. The greater number of the Massachusetts Regiment passed safely through in the cars, they being drawn through the city by horses, but the mob becoming excited tore up the track so that about 100 of the men were forced to march through, on attempting to do which they, at the Washington depot, were opposed by the mob armed with guns and paving stones. The struggle appears to have been a most desperate one, the police, headed by the Mayor, being apparently utterly powerless to aid the passage of the troops. The Pennsylvanians were unprepared for any such demonstrations, but eventually succeeded in crossing the city; but the Massachusetts men were opposed with such fierceness that they were obliged in self defense to fire upon the mob and killed and wounded a number of them, not, however, before the mob had fired upon them, and killed two of their number. They then forced their way through, reached the deport, and left for Washington amid a volley of firearms and paving stones.
From the full accounts which reach us, it is evident that men less determined than were the Massachusetts Volunteers on that occasion, would have been overwhelmed and probably massacred by the brutal mob which surrounded them. It appears that only about one hundred of the Massachusetts men were opposed to some ten thousand of the Baltimore desperadoes, but notwithstanding this fearful odds, they forced their way through amid showers of paving stones and other missiles, interspersed with shots from revolvers and other firearms. They forbore to make any hostile demonstration in return until they had borne more than men can be expected to bear; and even then there was no concerted firing, but only single shots, which, however, appear to have told with fatal effect, as some eleven of the rioters are reported killed. They reached Washington that evening. The latest dispatches from Baltimore, state that comparative quiet has been restored. The military were under arms, and the police were out in full force.
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