THE INSURRECTION: PROGRESS OF THE GRAND ARMY; Details of the Movements of the National Troops; SCENES AT FAIRFAX COURT-HOUSE (7/19/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 7/19/1861

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WASHINGTON, Thursday, July 18.

Twenty-four army wagons, loaded heavily with boxes of muskets, left the arsenal at 5 o'clock P. M., and proceeded to the railroad station, where they were transferred to a freight train, and taken off on the Washington Branch Railroad, probably for Col. H.W. LAMON's Martinsburgh Regiment.

The gun-boat Freeborn, which has been thoroughly overhauled and repaired at the Navy-yard, was launched from the ways this evening. She will receive her armament and provisions, and immediately rejoin the Potomac River police.

The steam-propeller Jersey Blue came up to the Navy-yard this afternoon, to be inspected, the owners offering to sell her to the Government for a gun-boat.

The Quartermaster-General is actively engaged in the preliminaries for the construction of gun-boats for Western waters. Plans and specifications for their hulls are on exhibition at his office and at the offices of the Quartermasters at Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Alton. The boats are to be delivered at Cairo. Bids should be sent to the Quartermaster-General by the 1st of August.

The Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to a resolution of the House, says that he has not sufficient force to protect the United States commerce from Southern privateers. Congress, however, will provide adequate means.

The argument in the Court of Claims, in the case of Latham vs. The United States, for erecting the Custom-houses at Buffalo and Oswego, was concluded to-day. H.B. STANTON and LEVI S. CHATFIELD argued the case for the plaintiffs, and Messrs. GIBSON and MCPHERSON, United States Solicitor and Assistant-Solicitor, for the Government. The amount involved is about $150,000. The argument occupied five days.

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The Insurrection: Progress of the Grand Army – 2-4
From Illinois – 4
The Great Comet – 4
Editorial: How to Maintain the Advance – 4-5
Editorial: Army Sanitary Commission – 5
A Tender Conscience an Apology for Treason – 5
Fat Promises and Lean Performance – 5
United States Sanitary Commission* - 5
F.F.V.’s – 5

* . . . or by George T. Strong, Treasurer United States Sanitary Commission, No. 68 Wall-street.

No. 68 must be his law office. I wonder if it still serves the same purpose.

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Go G.A.R!

The War should be over by Christmas.