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To the Benevolent (March 12th, 1862)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: The Ladies Union Relief Association ask their country friends for donations of milk, chickens, eggs or butter, to be sent to Mrs. Gideon Bantz or Mrs. Margaret Hart.
Full DetailsNotice (March 12th, 1862)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Notice: Sheriff Zimmerman requests William Webb of Lisbon, Howard Co., to claim his runaway slave Henry Dorsey, now in the Frederick County Jail.
Full DetailsThe Examiner is Barking Up the Wrong Tree (March 21st, 1862)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Letter criticizing a comment in the Examiner regarding Maryland's emancipation process, defending humane slave owners and defending their right to manumit slaves.
Full DetailsContrabands (March 26th, 1862)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Article discussing the vexed problem of "contraband" slaves being brought into Maryland as the Union invades the South. A result of the war is the likely annihilation of slavery in the Border States.
Full DetailsNegroes Absconded (March 28th, 1862)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Three slaves of John Danner run away near Middletown
Full DetailsPopulation of Maryland (March 28th, 1862)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Table of MD population by counties showing numbers of whites, "free colored" and slaves
Full DetailsTrain Brings Contraband Slaves to Frederick (March 28th, 1862)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Train from Harper's Ferry brings contraband slaves to Frederick, who are to be sent to Washington and employed in the Commissary dept.
Full DetailsPublic Sale (April 2nd, 1862)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Advertisement; Estate sale of William Castle?, including 22 Negro men, women and children, 19 of whom are slaves for life, signed Thomas R. Jarboe, Basil Delashmutt.
Full DetailsNotice (April 2nd, 1862)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Notice: Sheriff Zimmerman requests the owner to claim runaway slave John R. Johnson,. now in the Frederick County jail. Johnson was employed by an officer of the 11th MI Regt, killed at Bull Run.
Full DetailsThe Rebellion and Slavery (April 2nd, 1862)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: While the war is not for the abolition of slavery, Rebels have no right to the protection of the laws and face the loss of their slaves as contraband, unlike loyal slaveowners in MD.
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