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ARMISTICE ! FALL OF WAGES! NO MARKET FOR PRODUCE! Pennsylvania a Border State! MM! CIVIL WAR! ANARCHY! DESPOTISM ! 1 THE END. ' ON TO VICTORY! UNION MEN OP PENNSYLVANIA ! but five days remain to prepare for the great National struggle with those who pronounee the war a "failu re," and demand that our victorious armies should be arrested to give a "cessation of hostilities" to ex hausted traitors. Tho time is short, the moments golden, the issue vital—fraught indeed with the destiny of the Republic. With such a cause neutrality is impossible, in difference criminal. With our gallant armies vic torious on almost every field ; with treason ex hausted in its resources, broken in its credit, its despairing armies decimated by and field after field, and State after State surrendered to tho heroic armies of the Union, the great work of preserving our government now and for all time is well nigh accomplished. "They have rob bed the cradle and the grave" says the invincible Grant, and their last hope is the sueeess of the Peace candidate at the next election! Loyal men! ponder well tho significant language of your great chieftains. You who have given your sons and brothers to vindicate the integrity of the government against the murderous assaults of traitors ; who have given freely of your trots - urcs, and mourned the bereavement with which you have been shadowed by a wanton war. turn not now upon the faithful warriors \ouhavo sent to the front and cloud their crimsoned fields arid their wounds with shame, and the graves of their martyred comrades with dishonor. Thrir sacred sacrifices are well nigh fulfilled ; their mission a bout to be completed—not by a humiliating sur render to our barbarous foes, but by the crowning triumph of the Union armies and the utter over throw of treason. From the Valley we hear the fresh notes of vic tory, giving us promise of safety to our long dis tracted and plundered borders, and weaving an other chaplet. in the wreath of honored and endu ring Peace. The ever triumphant Sheridan has again discomfited our vaudal foes, and sent them "whirling"' back upon the laud they have desola ted by crime. Shall these triumphs be voted "failures?" —shall these victories bo wasted by resting over the graves of our noble sons sacrificed to preserve our free institutes, and conceding a "cessation of hostilities ?" Every dictate of pa triotism, of humanity; of honor, and of safety forbids it. When traitors yield obedience to the laws—the same to which we yield willing obedience —the war will be be ended, and ended with honor to our living and to our dead, and with honor to the Republec. UNION MEN ! Let there he a rally along the whole line! Pennsylvania has declared for the Union by over eleven thousand ; but it is due to the gallant army that lias given us victory and pre served our government, that loyal men at home shall protect the rear while they protect us in the front. The home vote of Pennsylvania can and WILL declare for Liberty and Law —for Lincoln and the Union, and let no man falter or hesitate because the result is certain. The more decisive is the verdict for the government, the sooner we shall reach Peace, the more thoroughly will the laws be vindicated, and the more overwhelming will bo the discomfiture and despair of traitors in the field. Their last hope will vanish as the North with one voice declares that there shall be no de grading compromise with prejured traitors, to give ~-e.sh life for mad ambition to crimson new fields n our future history. Ohio, Indiana and Maryland send us words of cheer. They have spoken and sent doep and dead, ly the thrust into the very vitals of our Country's foes. Let one and all make common cause with them ; let us join hearts and hands to give Victo ry to Right—Peace by Union and Freedom to this fairest of man's inheritance. Forward, Loyal. Men ! The hour of final triumph seems just at hand, and let us greet and strengthen every hope that beats for Union and Law, and drive into ut er confusion and dishonor, the faithless men who would bring shame to our brave soldiery, disaster to our government, and anarchy to thirty millions of people On to Yictrny!— Franklin Repository. The dying words of the gallant Birney were— '; Keep your eyes on (lieflag boys /" His last act was to vote the Union ticket, and his last sentence was in happy harmony with his heroism on the field and his fidelity to his cause. Can men who love their Nationality vote to libel the fame of our chieftains and their brave soldiers, by endorsing the treachery of Chicago which declares the war a "failure ?" Should the grave of a Birney be blotted with dishonor by humiliating concession to our vandal foes? If so, vote the Chicago ticket. There is not a draft made for men that is not necessitated by the treachery of the Democratic party. It has declared the war a "failure" and strengthened the foes of the government to perse verance in their murderous work. Their last hope, says Grant, is the election of the Peace ticket at the next election! Shall traitors be thus cheered in their work ot death ? Who gave us a crushing debt and oppressive taxes? The Democratic party—the parent of treason, the author of this wanton war, and now the last eope of our Country's foes ! Shall it be restored to power ? A loyal people have declared in thunder tones that it shall not consummate its treachery by betraying the government at the feet of traitors. BEDFORD, TA.* FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 4. 1864. PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S SPEECH. . V vy;> & v .. .VST H®?* i President Lincoln, in answer to a serenade from loyal Marylanders on the night of the 18th, spoke as follows: "I am notified that this is a compliment paid me by the loyal Marylanders resident in this dis trict. I infer that the adoption of the new Con stitution for the State furnishes the occasion, and that, in yoijr view, the extirpation of slavery con stitute the chief merit of the new Constitution. "Most heartily do I congratulate you and Mary land, and the nation and the world upon the event. I regret that it did not occur two years sooner, which lam sure would have saved to the nation more money than would have mot all private loss incident to the measure. But it has come at last, and I sincerely hope its friends may fully realize all their anticipations of good from it, and that its opponents may. by its effects, be agreeably and profitably disappointed. "A word upon another subject. Something said by the Secretary of State, in his recent speech at Aubnrn, has been construed some into a threat that, if I shall be beaten at the election, I will, be tween then and the end of my constitutional term, do what I may be able to ruin the Government. — Others regard the fact tliat the Chicago Conven tion adjourned, not sine die, but to meet again if called to do so by a particular individual, as the. intimation of a purpose that, if their nominee shall he elected, 113 will at once seize the control of the Government I hope the good people will permit themselves to suffer no uneasineess on this point. I am struggling to maintain the Government, not to overthrow it lam struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it. 1 therefore say that, if I shall Hve, I shall remain President until the 4th of next March, and that whoever shall bo constitutionally elected therefor, in No vember, shall be duly iustalied as President oil the 4th of March ; and that in the internal I shall do my utmost that whoever is to hold the helm for the next voyage shall start with the best possi ble chance to save the ship. •- "This is due to the people, both on principle and tinder the Constitution. Their will, constitu tionally expressed, is the nltimatc law for all. If they should deliberately resolve to have immediate peace, even at the loss of their country and thei| liberties, I know n<st the power or the right to re sist them. It is their own business, and they must do as they please with their own. I believe, how ever, they are still resolved to preserve their coun try and their liberty, and in this office or out I am resolved to standby them. I may add that in this purpose to save the coun/- try and its liberties, no classes of people seem sp nearly unanimous as the soldiers in the field an# the seamen afloat. Do they not have the hardest of it ? Who should quail while they do not ? God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders." SPEEIYI BY HON. ANDREW JOHNSON. Hon. Andrew Johnson made a speech at Lou isville on Thursday evening last, in which he said: I say let the Government go on, and slave iy get along the best it can. Give me my country,. and, if need be, let all else go. If slavery gets in th< way, it must get out and go down. Let'' niggers' go, if they get in the way of putting down treason Be fore the rebellion I was for sustaining the G<Jrern ment without slavery, withot regard to a partbular institution. Institutions must be subordinate, and the Government must be supreme. Slavery is no longer a local, but an itineranl in stitution, going around just where it pleases. Sla very is demoralized, and the slaves are becoming practically free. It is fast settling itself. Practical emancipation is the order of the day throughout Tennessee and Kentucky. As soon as law and or der is restored, and these states get out of the trans ition from slavery to freedom, black labor will he much more profitable to them than ever before. I pay my former slaves every week, and they work far better than they used to. Slavery is a slow, tardy, uiacive, inert, and wasteful system of labor. Black labor, emancipated in all the soathert states, will eventually prove more profitable, thai it ever was while enslaved. These broad acres hav< been worked long enough by a few lords and great gangs of slaves. The talk about " nigger equality" is all humbug, I have seen more of it in the south than I have in the north. In my opinion freedom will nol make negroes any worse, and will result in their ad vancement. The pseudo democratic party is the rebel party of the United States, composed in major part oi of the rebels and lurking traitors in our midst, who are as much engaged in the attempted overthrow of the Government as the traitors Jeff. Da vis. The point of its leaders and ruling members is power, and their intention is to give aid and com fort to Jeff. Davis & Co., and their armies. They are the allies and friends of Jeff. Davis, giving him all possible aid ami comfort in keeping up the re bellion, in resisting the supremacy of the Consiitu tion and laws over the entire United States. Their platform looks one way, their tickets head anoth er, and their tickets tail another. I know Mr. McClellan well. He falls far below mediocrity—a very nice little gentleman. When you try to get hold of and grip him, he is so small you cant find him. He's so little there's no place to whip him on. Whatever there is of him is noth ing but what Mr. Lincoln has made him. If. any part of the war is a " failure " it is that part which was conducted by McClellan. Talk about failure now, when General Sherman has penetrated the heart of the rebellion, and holds it in his grasp! Mr. Lincoln has proved himself a patriot above all party. Whatever he has done has been to defend and preserve the Constitution and the Government. If he has in aught violated the Constitution, he has done it on the principle of self-preservation, to save the life of the nation and rescue the Constitution it self from utter destruction. His sole object has been to save what his country's enemies would destroy. Re-elect Mr. Lincoln, and this diabolical, infer nal, hell-born, hell-bound rebellion is well nigh at an CDCI. It will carry terror and dismay into the traitors'conclaves and the traitors camps. Jeff. Davis will stand more terrified than did Macbeth before Macduff. Our armies will be encouraged and inspired, and our nation will be redeemed and regenerated. Fight Jeff. Davis and this'rebellion tp death. — The best way to have peace is to conquer rebel- lion and to hang traitors. Not half enough of traitors have been arrested. All arrested should be tried for treason and if convicted hung. This government can't live while traitors and trea son are in the supremacy. Conquer peace, and Unless the rebels come forward and ackowledge submission to the Constitution and laws of the United States, confiscate traitors' property and hang them for their treason. Make the Constitu tion and laws supreme, and treason *and traitors odious. A VERDICT. McClellan was appointed at the commencement of this war, by the Republican Governor of Ohio, a Major General, to organize the militia of that State for the purpose of defence. Subsequently he was appointed by a Republican President a Major General in tho Regular Army, from the State of Ohio. His status, in this war, therefore, is that of a man owing his position to the State of piuo, Well, lie has aa, .acaftdi v.ti:c m the Presidency, and at the very first chance Ohio gets, she turns her back upon him in the ffiost emphatic and unmistakable manner. Her recent election is an expression of sublime contempt for him and his aspirations. To make the rebuke the more striking, she last year defeated his friend and adviser, Vallandigham, in the most overwhel ming style; and this year, his associate on the ticket, Pendleton, long a member of Congress from Ohio, and still a resident of Cincinnati, re ceives the same reward. Thus Ohio clears her skirts of all complicity with this copperhead ticket. Cincinnati never jpive so signal a majority as she has just clone against Pendleton. She is determined, as Ohio is, that no responsibility shall attach to her for this aborn inable Chicago contrivance to humble the standard of the republic in the dust. And while this is the case with regard to Ohio, McClelian suffers e qually in his birth-place, Philadelphia. Last year she closed her ears against his letter appealing on Jjehalf of his friend, Judge Woodward, and gave a memorable majority against him and his associ ates, This year she increases her majority. lior recreant son is no source of pride to the old cradle of liberty. In the year 1776 a nobler child than MeClellan was home here. It was christened the United States of America. Liberty stood god mother to it, and Washington godfather. Pliih delphia ha< too much love for that priceless off spring to feel any regard for such an infinitely re duced specimen of human greatness as McClelian, and .she has repudiufed him forever. Thus reject ed by hi birth place and by the state to which he owes his position, he appropriately seeks refuge in Gotham.— Phi la. North America u. HE WAS NOT THERE. We take the following article from the Philadel phia North American : The battle of Rich Mountain w r as fought in Western Virginia by General Ilosacrans. and re sulted in a glorious victory. MpuleHan was the commander of that department, and was to have arrested the Blight of the discouifitted foe, but — la icas not there. * The battle of Rail's Bluff was fought by Colo nel Baker, under orders from General Stone, by direction of General McClelian, who planned all the manoeuvres of Stone and McCaU; it might have been successful had the General-in-Chief ex amined the ground and made adequate prepara tions, but — he was not there. The blockade of the Potomac by the rebels occa sioned great annoyance to the government, and added inaterialy to the national debt by enhan cing the prices of .subsistence. It might have been raised, and preparations were concerted for that purpose several times between the array aim navy, and the fleet was ready, as also were the troops, except McClelian — he was not there. The city of Norfolk, with all its immense naval facilities, was a desirable point for us, and sever al efforts were made to got McClelian to take it although in vain. At length President Lincoln in person got up an expedition and headed it, by which Norfolk was captured without the knowledge of McClelian for — he was not there. The battle of Williamsburg was fought by our army, under disastrous circumstances, in conse quence of our ignorance of the ground and the rebel Works, and having no commander-in-chief. Each division fought on its own hook, and there was no plan of battle. McClellan should have been in command, but — he was not there. So it was, too, at Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, Gaines' Mills, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, and the reason was that as McClel lan was occupied with political intrigues when he should have been busy with military duties—Ac was not there. A NEW DEVELOPMENT OF PEACE PRIN CIPLES. The notorious Vallandigham addressed a meet ing of his sworn vassals at Sydnes, Ohio, on the 24th ult., in which he urged them to support Mc- Clellan, and gave them this cogent, and to them convincing inducement. Speaking of the Presi dent., he .says, "his hoad, and the heads of those around him, would come to the block.' We have here an undisguised declaration that in the event of McClellan's election the work of butchery is to begin. The President and his im imediate advisers are to bo the first victims, but .every man who has been prominent in his devotion to the Union may expect to find his name in the list of those doomed to the block. This is the lan guage of men who talk of peace, and who denoun ces as tyrannical an administration tliat offers no hindrance to the proclamation of an era of murder, in case the prospective butcher can succeed in the Presidential election. t The Chicago platform pronounces the war bn ; 'four year's of failure" and demands "an imme diate cessation of hostilities." Mr. Stephens, the rebel Vico President, greets the platform in phe following poetic strain of exstatio joy— u I fail bolt/ light, offspring of Ifcavcn !" Naturally tnough for a rebel chief thus to go wild with de light over the work of Clement C. Vallandigham. Will a loyal people thus hail the work of a traitor thus endorsed by one of the chief conspirators, Vho have wantonly plunged us into war to destroy ihc best government of the earth ? A SOUTHERN PEACE! DEHOCRATS ! RE NOT DECEIVED WITH THE IDEA THAT THE REBEL LEADERS WILL WIL LINGLY CONSENT TO A RESTORATION OR THE UNION. In the Rebel Official Report of the interview between JEFFERSON DAVIS and MESSES. JA QUES and GILLMORE, DAVIS dismissed them with the declaration— "THAT THE SEPARATION OF THE STATES was an accomplished fact; that he had no authority to receive proposals for negotiation except by virtue of his office as President of an Independent Confederacy; and ON THIS BA SIS ALONE must proposals be made to him.'' In his last message to the Rebel Congress, JEF FERSON" DAVIS, in speaking of peace, describes "THE ONLY PEACE POSSIBLE BK- T\\ BEN US—a peace which, recognizing the impassable gulfwliich now divides us, may leave two people (separately to recover from the injuries ImiietM on both by the causeless war new waged gainst us." In a Speech to the Legislature of Mississippi, Dec. 26, 1862, JEFFERSON DAVIS said— "AFTER WHAT HAS HAPPENED the last two years, my only wonder is, that we con sented to live so long a time in association with such miscreants. Were it ever proposed to enter again into a Uinion with such a people, I could no more consent to do it than to trust myself in a den of thieves.'' DEMOCRATS! Are you prepared to legalize Secession, to recognize the Independent Sover eignty of the States, ane thus to perpetuate Rev olution and Civil Strife? If not, Vote for LIN COLN and JOHNSON, and thus secure the only sure Peace. ~ SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY! The object of the Southern Rebellion and of its Northern allies, is to render Slavery universal.— Under the name of Democracy, they seek to de prive labor of all its right. READ WHAT THE LEADERS SAY; •. I s "The theory of free labor is a delusion. Slavery is the natural snd normal condition of the labor ing man, WHITE OR BLACK."—De Bow's Sovthsm Revieio. • I "The enslavement of the laborer is right in it seif. and does not depend upon difference of com plexion. -—Richmond Enquirer. flavery.-BLACKor WHITE, is right and nec essary. — FitzhugEs Sociology for the Smth. '"Policy and humanity alike fofbid the exten sion the of evils of free labor to new peoples and coming generations.'— Richmond Enquirer. '"Make the laboring man a slave, and he would be far benter of.' Fitzhvghs Sociology, "The hand that is familiar with the plough handle should never be permitted to touch a bal lot."—John C. Calhoun. "Providence has so ordered our internal rela tions as to make Negro Slavery an incalcuable bles sing to us. — George W. Woodward. "Even hero, in our happy land of universal suf frage, how does it appear that .'ALL MEN ARE BORN EQUAL?' The proposition is a sheer absnr lity. All men are born UNEQUAL. And their freedom is as unreal as their equality."— Fi Jiqp Hopkins, Democratic Edition. Thus the "Democrats," North and South, pro nounce free society a failure, and free labor a curse. Slavery is a blessing to be extended over all men who labor, whether black or white. As in the Past. "Resolved, That in the future, as in the past, we will adhere with unswerving fidelity to the Union." —Democratic Platform. . The Union came to an end during a "Democrat ic" Administration "in the past." The conspiracy against the Union culminated in t "Democratic" Cabinet "in the past" The President, through whose vacillation and imbecility, not to say treachery and connivance, the South opened their war against the Union, was a "Democrat" of "the past." His name is James Buchanan. En-President John Tyler was an open and a vowed rebel against the Uuion, and was a "Demo crat of "the past." En-President Pierce, who remains on excellent terms with his old ("Democrat") Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, and has not lifted a finger or a word in aid of the National Government, is a "Democrat" of "tire past" Ex-Vice President Breckinridge is aMajor-Gen eral in the rebel army, and a "Democrat" of "the past." Vice President Aaron Burr was a traitor and a "Democrat" in "the past. Vice President John C. Calhoun, the father of secession,"was a "Democrat" "in the past." Jeff. Davis himself, his Cabinet officers and his Generals, and nearly every conspieious, influential or active leader in the rebel army, are ' 'Demo crats" "of the past." We greatly over-estimate the virtue, patriotism and inteligence of our people if they give the "Democratic party" an opportunity to "adhere to the Union in the future as in the past," at this particular jnncture. Who gave us secession and with it war ? Thir teen Democratic Governors and legislatures produ ced the secessisn of the thirteen States, and a bravo Union army has rescued half them back to the Old flag. Have they not given us enough of desolation and death ? ; • Coffroth voted against providing means to pay the soldiers, and maintained his consistency by tvo ting against extending the right of suffrage to them. We now have the sequel in the soldiers maintaining their consistency and casting three fourths of their vote against Colroth, and elect ing Gen. Koontz to Congress. 1. ad for Coffroth, but good for the soldiers ! Would you vote to restore the government to the Democratic party, under whose fostering care Treason became mighty, and under whose admin istration it culminated in wicked war, and has loaded us with debt and staggered us with taxes ? Democracy gave us treason—it gave birth to it, nursed it, and cherished it until it made a Nation mourn. Can the perfidious author of this war gives us honorable and enduring Peace ? Vo! 437: No. 40 ANOTHER SPEECH FRO3J GEN. HOOKER. Gen. Hooker spoke as follows on Wednesday week, to an assembly In Indianapolis : "FELLOW CITIZEES— I do not come here to par ticipate in bnt to witness merely the ceremonies of I dedication. I thank von sincerely for yonr expres sion of kind feeling and esteem for me, but I do not deserve such manifestations. They belong of right to the brave men who have been with me and | shared with me the danger and glory of battle, your sons aud brothers. The honors are theirs more than mine, and when the oistory of this war is writen its true heroes will be found in the ranks. Generals- some times-fail; the men never fail. — Their loyalty and devotion to the flag are as earn ed to-day as when they left their homes. There is no faltering there. If, by any change, there should be a dishonorable peace patched up', * the soldiers of the army will not They in tend to see the War out, and witness the'death'and burial of the rebellion. knotVn to the conspirators. Tney know they can 110t whip gur turnvy. JM another Jtope. There is somefßin|T)bbT&r "Tifeytope thaitheir friends at the North will defeat us at the ballot box. Can they do it ? (Loud cries of 'Never !' 'Nev- j er !') The.only hope of success on the part of the rebels is to undermine ue in the rear. I have had some grave doubts of Indiana, but since I have been among you I have none." General McCleßan gets about eight thousand dollars a year from the United States treasury for doing nothing : yet Copperheads cry out against high taxes. Why don't the Peace General re sign ? Jwkqj iSciT Sword Presentation, Speeches, •' ■y.; —— ' 07. - ; '..>>• CAJIPS6T KBGT. P. V:,CAI>>TA\-'S PA**, Va. } .r/ i; October 2fi / MB, EBITOIU— You insert in yourctritxama the fol lowing. remarks which w.ero oiad# 011 the' oeoasion :of presenting a swowl, sash sn+L to 2tl Lieut. Hezekiah Hammer, of Co, K, ->3th P. V. The lan guage breathed forth in these addresses needs no comment. They are forcible so far aa pa triotism ana.^pvotionto 'country are concerned— Lieut. Hammer, it will ho remembered, has fully shared thoj dangers 'as, trials of his comrades throughout tliis arduous 'campaign, andtence they were well prepared to form an opinion as regards his worth, patriotism arid courage." The sword, asb and belt were purchased from a fund raised/by vol untary subscription among the members of CQ. IS K, 55th P. V, The -presentation was made by Corp. Thomas Leach in the following address'r n LIEUT. TTAWMER • In'behalf ofmy fellow comrades and myself, member? of Co. it, we unite in present ing you this sword, sash, Ac., in token. of 60 r es teem for you and oar appreciation Of-die efforts you have put forth to sustain the glorious cause in which we have in common an equal interest at stake. In transferring sword, Lieutenant, to your custody we feel assured that you will never employ it but in the cause cf justice and in defence of your country. We feel that we can always rely upon the fidelity, cour age and unswerving patriotism that you have been wont to exhibit during the past. If wag the lot of many of ns to be associated with you in the trials and conflicts of the past, and we take this occasion to bear testimony to your entire willingness to do your duty faithfully, in the most trying situations.! — Wc have shared the dangers and hardships, the privations and sufferings of this campaign, together and we feel in conferring this tribute of our respect that we are bestowing it upon one who is -frell worthy of it and has merited the reward. And it is our sfn - cere wish that God may bless you with health and that yon may return to your home, with the return of peace to our country, to cheer and gladden the hearts of all your relations and friends around you. Lieut. Hammer's reply: JCIL -UIV FELLOW COMRADES: YOU hare my thanksfor THE respeot you entertain towards me, in presenting *te with this sword. I thank you for the confidence you repose in me in thus out,rusting*to my care and keep ing this beautiful gift. 1 can only say that I have done no more than my duty through the campaign which is now tending to a close. 1 came out with you as a private, determined to do my duty as far as possible, and now, as it seems to be the desire of you all that I should assume the rank I now hold, I shall to the best of my ability discharge my duties toward you and to my country. I shall try to use this sword in the defence of my country, to vindi cate her honor and sustain her in this her hour of trial, and I never will, so long as I have remaining vigor to wield it, surrender it basely to the foe. It shall be my earnest endeavor to employ it, as I did my musket, in the maintenance of the best and most beneficent government ever instituted by man, or the sun ever shone upon. I shall.never ask you to go where I would not go, or face any danger which lam not willing to brave myself. Comrades, in ac cepting this gift I feel that I have assumed anew responsibility, and I promise you that I shall alwttys prize it as the most valuable Of all my treasures.* It shall serve to remind me, should Ibe so fortunate as to survive thif struggle, of your kindness and gen erous confidence in me in future years and I assure you I shall feel happy at all times to reciprocate your friendship. - D. W. R. List of Casualties In Co. "E," TGthßegt. P. V., pinee the opening of the campaign of Im>4, in Virginia, AT CHESTER HEIGHTS, May 7. —Wounded. —Corp. Levi Agnew, fore aria, severe; Chas. Caldwell, foot, severe; David Johnson, arm, severe, since dead; John Leader, shoulder, severe; Preston Miller, leg, flesh; Jacob Petejrman, lqg; John E. Lemon, missing. AT DREBI'S BLUETS, May 14 —Killed.— WM. Dem mings; Chas. McCoy; Gabriel Vastbinder. Wounded —Alex. Bollinger, hand: John Charleston, foot; Jas. Leary, breast, severe; Jos. Bong, hand; Uriah Mills, hand; M. B. Srbith, breast, severe; Samuel Stott, hand; Andrew Miller, May 16, hand. AT COLD HARBOR, June I— 'Wounded.—Corp. J. F. Cypher, leg, severe; Corp. W. F. Fahnestock, foot; Color Corp. Theodore KJabre, face, severe; John Fetter, hand; Wilber Ljroh, leg, severe. NEAR PETERSBURG, July s—Wounded.—Wm. M. Lynn, hip, severe; John T. Eckles, July 25, face; 8. Warner, July 27, face, severe; Ist Segt. R. P. Pilkiug ton, July 30, arm; Sergt. A. C. Bennett, July SO, hand; Chas. B. Lindsey, July JO, chin. AT DEEP BOTTOM— Wounded. —lst Segt, R. P. Pilkington, Aug. 14, arm, severe; 2d Segt. L, Smith, Aug. 16, contusion, severe; H, H. Nulton, Aug. 16, shoulder; JohnT. Ecklo, Aug. 16, missing; Beiy. F Molin, Aug. 16, missing. W. P. B.
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