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A New Article Of War (April 3rd, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: A bill prohibiting soldiers from returning slaves to their owners is a “mean and wanton disregard of the rights of property”
Full DetailsAccident (April 4th, 1862)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Middletown slave, Leonard Brooks, property of Samuel Ahalt, has leg broken in wagon accident
Full DetailsContrabands (April 9th, 1862)
>From The Herald of Freedom & Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: The train from Harpers Ferry brought to Frederick City a gang of 64 contraband slaves who had come with many others into the Federal Lines at Harpers Ferry
Full DetailsSheriff's Sale (April 9th, 1862)
>From The Herald of Freedom & Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: Notice. Sheriff Henry Gantz will offer at public sale 3 convicted Negroes: David Thompson (larceny), Mary Adley (larceny), Robert Myers (rape).
Full DetailsA Suicide (April 10th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: Jacob Erb, from near to Middletown, committed suicide shortly before he was to be prosecuted by an African American woman he assaulted
Full DetailsWhat Is The War For? (April 17th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: The law abolishing slavery in Washington, D.C. and allowing African Americans to carry U.S. mail demonstrates to the author that the “war may possibly have some other object than the restoration of the Union”
Full DetailsCircuit Court for Carroll County (April 17th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: Emiline Haines, a white woman, was sentenced to eighteen months in the penitentiary for having fornicated with Mathew Ward, an African American man
Full DetailsCircuit Court for Carroll County (April 17th, 1862)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: Mathew Ward, an African American man, was sentenced to be sold as a slave for life outside of the state for having fornicated with Emiline Haines, a white woman
Full DetailsRunaway Slaves Write Back to Their Master (April 18th, 1862)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: Missing slaves of Middletown resident John Danner write from Philadelphia, stating they had absconded only from a desire for freedom
Full DetailsPublic Sale (April 23rd, 1862)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Notice: Wm B. Taylor will sell at the Frederick County jail a Negro woman slave for life, a good cook, washer and ironer.
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