The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-06-15
EXTRACTS FROM OLD hartford COU:'
TY NEWSPAPERS.
Presented to the Hartford Historical So
ciety, April 2sth, 1894.
BY GEO. W. ARCHER, NJ. ID.
No. 3.

that persons who have the missing numbers
especially those relating to the war-will favor
the Historical Society with them, if only on
loan for they are Our main dependence for u
full and correct history of that terrible con.
fiict:
April %, 1861. Many of the troops who
were attacked by citizens in Baltimore on the
10Th, are returning to the North through this
county. Twenty-SeVen of them arrived here
on the night of 10th, and on the following
morning town meeting ordered that they
should be escorted to the Pennsylvania line by
the Hartford Light Dragons. They received
| here the kindest attention; and on parting at
the line, they volunteered three cheers for the
State of Maryland
The County Commissioners have appointed
Committee of Safety for the county, consisting
of eighteen prominent citizens-three from
each district ABOUT one-third of this COM
mttee were afterwards, if not ut the time,
strong Union men,
Nov. ODD. Charles D. Bouldin has bonded as
| Sheriff.
March I'd, 1862. Mr.. John Cox has just re-
tired from the "-EgiS," and henceforth it will
| be conducted by Mr.. Alfred w. Bateman. 1t
| first had as its motto, THE Union-it must be
preserved That motto never appeared again.
| July IL. We will give a liberal reward for
the apprehension of the hell-born rebel wretch
| who desecrated the flag of our country on the
rgm Gt st Py feW
scoundels have expressed themselves APPROX
| ingly of the act. We will replace the
| tically in the gentle breeze of heaven" have
| lately been told-and can well believe it-that
this "hel- born rebel wretch was the devil of
/ the office. 1t is also said that he still lives
which is more difficult to believe, in view of the
| fearful middleton, both loud and deep, under
| which he has had to labor.
July %. Edwin H. Webster has been ap.
| pointed Brig. General of Volunteers.
| August Sth. A great meeting was held in
| Bel Air on the 9th instant, to raise over the
| Court House the flag furnished by the Ladies
| Relief Association.
August % Cheyney Hopkins has been APP
| poiutnd = Marshal Hartford
| county. William FL. Dalam Superintendent
of drafting and enrolling, and DR.. 5. S. Ramsay
September 5th. The eth Regiment is full.
The County Commissioners increased the
bounty from $50 to $500.
| county 3, 546 men-exempt JOY. The vote in
| the county in 1861 was 1888. There are still
due on the enrolment 600 men, from which
| number are to be deducted $50 who have vol
unteered, leaving $50 to be drafted.
October IL. Yesterday the County Commits
| ing 2,050 names of the enrolled, the quota of
204 to be drafted into the army.
| July Sd, 1868. OnSunday last Capt. Carman,
| of the LIST Delaware Cavalry, of about IS men,
| arrived and camped in DIR. Elijah Bonds old
| field, near the town. Early next morning they
| arrested John S. Dallam and r. w. Newman,
l Principal of Bel Air Academy, and lodged them
| in the jail-charges not.known. AT P. NJ. of
| the same day they all marched towards Como
| wingo bridge and returned on Wednesday to
| August IS. The enrolment in Hartford
| shows LIS of the 1st class, and 500 of the I'd
| class.
| December 4. only two of the nine eompa-
MES of the 9TH Infantry were of Hartford coun-
ty, namely: Co. c., Capt. II. L. Bouldin, and
| Co. H., Capt. James B. Cochran; LIST Lit. Skip
with Gorrell; 2 1t. Joseph Robinson. The
| other companies were two from Washington
county, three from Frederick, one from Carroll,
and one from Baltimore county. The regiment
is part of the Sd Brigade Sd Division. LIST Corps.
February DC, 1864. In this issue is the first
advertisement for recruiting ''colored troops ~
| a
years old; if free, they are to get $500 bounty
| from the State; those of Baltimore city $500;
| slaves, 500 from the State; the master the
| same amount, and, if loyal, $500 from United
States.
March Is. During this month William Boul.
| din became editor of the National American
| Another draft has been ordered, calling for
| 100000 men in addition to the 500, 900 ordered
for February last: Volunteers are to be re-
| ceived until April 18th, when drafting will be-
gin if necessary. The bounty is S1oO.
Otho Scott, Esq, died in Baltimore on the
9th instant, of gangrene of the foot, causing
| eXcruciatng pain for long time.
| March %. On the 18th instant a county
| convention of Unconditional Union delegates
| met in Bel Air to nominate candidates. Rev.
| J. H. Lennon was appointed chairman. One
| of the resolutions passed was to the effect that
| a State convention should be called ut once, to
| emancipate all the slaves i'll Maryland without
| State compensation; but that the general gov
| eminent should be held for the payment for
| the slaves so freed, according to the act of the
| 3lth Congress.
| On the 21st instant IL meeting of the conser-
| vative Union men was held i'll Bel Air, with
| james NJ. Mccormick chairman. The long
string of resolutions passed by these two meet
| ings differ only as "tweedle-dum" may differ
| from tweedle-dee."
| May 10. The quota for Hartford in the draft
| which takes place to-day, is 1913.
| May 20. letter from Capt. Bouldin, of the
| 18th instant, says there were of his company to
| that date, nine wounded and as many missing
| Col. Philips commanding the regiment was
| captured, but was recaptured. The regiment
9th, has been in the midst of the conflict nine
l iaUs-fhn hriuahn m a n nnn dav thraa
| charges on rebel works. These were no doubt
the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania,
which began on 9th May and ended on the
May 81. In the late battles thirty .one of
| Capt Bouldins company were killed, wound
| ed and missing, ten of whom are wounded and
| six missing. This leaves the number killed,
| fifteen. This is probably incorrect-especially
as Capt. Boudin's letter does not even mention
| that any of his men were killed. Moreover. in
| this issue is full list of the wounded and mis-
| sing of his company, but not single name is
| given of any of the killed" After the 18th of
May there were no battles during that month.
| June II. Those wishing to Join Il club to
| protect them from the next draft are invited
to call on Major William II. Dallam or S.
July 1. There were five drafted out of
club of seventy got up in Bel Air. each member
putting in a capital of 500 to continue until
exhausted by the coming drafts. The club is
| still open for new members. Each man draft
| ed receives $500.
Yesterday Provost Marshal Cathcart made
| the deficiency draft in this couEty-the deficient
districts being 3D. Sd and 5th, from which he
| drafted, respectively, 81, ID and % men, eight
The editor says the draft for one hundred DAYS
will also soon come upon Harford-the quota
| of that draft being twelve in each of the first
| five distrcts-that of the sixth being full.
| This draft was under a call for two thousand
men from Maryland. to serve one hundred
July 8. On the ID instant the $500 exemp-
| ton clause was stricken from the enrolment
! act, and every man drafted has either to serve
| DrOViQa substitute. who mnSt he a m moi
| liable to draft.
August 49, Great efforts are being made in
this county to fill the quota for the last call for
| 100000 men, by the 9th September, and thus
avoid IL draft on that day. Efforts are
| also being made to exempt those who have aid
| ed in raising volunteers. If one-half
of the enrolled citizens of district raise suffi-
| Gent funds to put in one-half the quota of
volunteers for that district the half SO contri-
| buting are to be stricken from the enrolment
"a notice to the enrolled of Bel Air district
says, there is still small deficiency in the funds
| needed to exempt that district from the draft
of 9th September.
October eth, Col. Phelps has resigned on ac-
count of physical disability. His left arm was
fractured ut SpotSylvania, in May last, and he
had two horses killed under him.
November 4. The following is from the
Baltimore American" of recent date: John
C. Walsh. Samuel H. Brkhead, Charlton W.
Billingslea and Albert Dorney were arrested
yesterday and lodged with Col. Woolley, of the
Baltimore Bastile. Ina Hartford town, [Abing-
donl, in 1861 resolutions were adopted to take
Maryland out of the Union. Walsh
was one of the committee chairman who drew
them. Yet he lately offered to take
the oath required to vote on the new constitu-
ton. The judges objected. He had writ
served on them for damages. Dorney
said, when offered the oath, 'D-n the Union .
Brkhead said, after takiXg the oath, he didn't
believe it binding. The editor of "Thc
American adds, 1.-The old constitution is gone,
but the old law against perjury still lives-let
it be enforced"
December 16. John X. McComas (son of our
worthy overseer of the Almshouse), of Co. G,
18th Regiment, was captured 18th May, and
died recently of cruel treatment in one of the
rebel prisons.
Jacob Enfield, of Dublin district, has been
sentenced to six months hard labor at Fit. Dix. |
He was, some time SINCE arrested fer display
ing the rebel flag, and released on taking the |
oath but soon afterwards detective heard |
him abusing the goyerment-with the above |
result.
April 6, 1866. The editor, r. E. Bouldin, an
nounces that he has sold his paper to Gilbert |
Taylor, a practical printer.
May 25. At a meeting of Unconditional |
Union men, in Bel Air, on the 10th instant, it |
was resolved, THAT the loyal must rule this |
State if there are only five thousand in it, |
land why not five as in SOdom of od?J 'Ihat |
we cordially approve of Hon. John L. Thomas |
speech in Congress against negro suffrage"
June l. AT a meeting of the same party, in |
Marshall's, it was Resolved that neither ne |
groes nor rebels should vote in Maryland, and |
that leading rebels should be forever excluded |
from offices of confidence or trust"
July 9. The rebel, Governor Vance. of /
North Carolina, was the guest of E. Fl. Web