THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC: Measures Taken to Repress Guerrilla Depredations; PROCLAMATION BY GEN. MEADE (8/11/1863)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 8/11/1863

[Homer_J_Simpson]

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Monday, Aug. 10.

The following proclamation has been issued by Gen. MEADE:

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, July 13, 1863.

The numerous depredations committed by citizens or rebel soldiers in disguise, harbored and concealed by citizens along the Orange and Alexandria Railroad and within our lines, call for prompt and exemplary punishment.

Under the instructions of the Government, therefore,, every citizen against whom there is sufficient evidence of his having engaged in these practices, Will be arrested and confined for punishment or put beyond the lines.

The people within ten miles of the railroad are notified that they will be held responsible in their persons and property for any injury done to the roads, trains, depots or stations, by citizens, guerrillas, or persons in disguise; and in case of such injury, they will be impressed as laborers to repair all damages.

If these measures should not atop such depredations, it will become the unpleasant duty of the undersigned, in the execution of his instructions, to direct that the entire inhabitants of the district or country along the railroad be put across the lines and their property taken for Government use.

GEORGE G. MEADE, Maj.-Gen. Commanding.

The depredations having been continued, a number of citizens, suspected, or known to be complicated in these transactions, have been promptly arrested.

DOINGS OF THE CAVALRY.

Gen. Buford's Cavalry Division--The Late Battle--Ninth New-York Cavalry--Official Report of Casualties--Incidents, &c.

CULPEPPER COUNTY, Va., Friday, Aug. 6, 1863.

A small Force of Union cavalry is still patroling the northerly portion of this county, and as far south as the Rapidan River. Yesterday a squadron of the Sixth New-York (Col. DEVEN's brigade,) under Capt. PEARCE, went on a scout to the Rapidan,

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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The Army of the Potomac: Measures Taken to Repress Guerrilla Depredations – 2
Doings of the Cavalry: Gen. Buford’s Cavalry Division – 2-3
News from Washington: Hot Weather-—No Movement of the Armies – 3
The Draft in New-York: Gov. Seymour’s Rejoinder to President Lincoln – 4
From the Mississippi Valley: Gen. Hurlbut Still in Command of the Sixteenth Army Corps – 4
Editorial: Gov. Seymour’s Correspondence with the President – 4-5
Editorial: Conscripts on the March – 5
Editorial: The Social and Political Status of the Southern Negro – 5-6
Editorials: The Perils We Have Escaped – 6

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

On my way to Antietam right now. It’s been several years since we’ve visited any civil war battlefield and I wonder how they’ve wokified it. Probably stories of gay soldiers and probably a monument to the emancipation proclamation the size of Rushmore

[Vermont Lt]

They have a new visitors center. You could stop in and ask.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Maybe general Lee refused hormone blockers to transitioning soldiers

[Vermont Lt]

I hope you show a little more reverence when walking through the cornfield.

[higgmeister]

Dou have an OCR program to transpose these texts or do you have to do the work on your keyboard?

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

I will for our confederate soldiers

[higgmeister]

My living only a handful of miles from Big Shanty, I immediately thought of the Andrews Raiders of the Great Locomotive Chase that was enacted in the year before this Proclamation by General Meade.

I never thought about Confederates serving the same sort of dish back to the Union held Railroads.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Nothing too high tech. Screen shots of the Times Machine pages, print, cut and tape, scan, post.

[Vermont Lt]

Well, they need many more prayers than the guys who won.

[higgmeister]

I was thinking about the text that was typed in the initial intro.   That was done with an OCR scanner then?

I participated in an OCR trial back in 1980 when I was in the Air Force with the first OCR document scanner at the Forces Command Comm Center in Tampa.   We had an IBM Selectric with a special OCR font on the rolling ball to create each page for the laser scanner.   We could watch the laser sweep over each character going back and forth multiple times which seemed to take an eternity for a whole page.   CCC Corporation had the contract for the system and for a time the thing was rejecting our status report documents every day.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The text I use for the original posting is just a cut and paste from the NYT archives. That, I believe, is from a transcription tool the Times uses to take text from the same source as the Times Machine pages show. That is because when the Times Machine version is poor quality then the transcription is poor at the same places.

[higgmeister]

I’m one of those guys who lived in the transition from analog to digital communications.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

What is this “digital communications” you speak of.

[higgmeister]

Thank you.   I needed that chuckle.   The Railroad Regulator Clock on the train depot wall was a time ago.