Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-11-18
posr-sELLuM DAYS.
OLD Sixth Corps Newspaper Of Dam
willie, Va. Recalls Warm Times.


Old Sixth Corps Newspaper Of Dam
willie, Va, Recalls Warm Times.
W. 1. swift Of Pittsfeid, late member
OF Company E., 18th Regiment OF Yer
I mont Volunteers, has forwarded TO the
Herald Office a copy OF 7 he Sixth Corps,
newspaper published at Danville, Va,
aud bearing date of May 10, 1865. Dam
willie was the headquarters oi the 9Th
army corps in the Civil war at this time
and the little two-page sheet is full CT
army news and fiery articles showing the
| far from Iamb-like spirit then prevailing.
On the first page is printed 3 startling
proclamation, signed Andrew johnson,
president of the United States, and read
ing as follows:-
"Wberess il appears from evidence 10
the Bureau OF Military Justice that the
atrocious murder OF the late President
Abraham Lincoln and the attempted assass-
ination Of the Hon. w. II. Seward. secre-
tary OF state, we're melted, concerted and
procured by and between Jefferson Davis,
late OF Richmond, Va, and Jacob Thomp-
son, Clement c. Clay, Beverly Tucker,
George n. Sanders, W. c. Cleary and
other rebels and traitors against the gov
eminent OF the United States, harbored in
Canada.
"Now, therefore, to the end that justice
may be done. I, Andrew Johnson, presi-
dent OF the United States, do offer and
promise for the arrest OF said persons, or
either OF them, within the limits OF the
United States, so that they can be
brought TO trial, these rewards
some hundred thousand dollars for the
arrest OF Jefferson Davis.
"Twenty-1ve thousand dollars for the
arrest Of Clement c. Clay.
twenty-five thousand dollars for the
arrest OF Jacob Thompson, late OF Missis-
sippi
TWENTY-FIVE thousand dollars for the
arrest of George n. Sanders.
twenty-five thousand dollars for the
arrest OF Beverly Tucker, and
"Ten thousand dollars for the arrest OF
William c. Cleary, late clerk OF Clement
q. Clay.
"The provost marshal general OF the
I United States Is directed to cause a de-
scription OF said persons, with notice OF
the above rewards, to be published.
Gin witness whereof, have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal Of the
| United States to be affixed"
/ In the same issue with the above proc
lamation Is a letter to General Grant from
Fortress Monroe by Gen. B. s. Ewell OF
the Confederate army, in which be ex-
/ presses his own and his brother officers
horror at the assassination of President
| Lincoln and refuses to believe that das-
tardly deed can be laid TO the South. He
says lyon will appreciate, | am sure,
the sentiment which prompts me to drop
YOU these few lines. OF all the misfor-
tunes which could befall the Southern
people, or any Southern man, by far the
greatest, in my judgment, would be the
prevalence Of the idea that they could en-
terrain any other than feelings OF unqual-
! flied adherence and indignation for the
assassination OF the president OF the
\ United States and the attempt to assassin
ate the secretary of state. No language
can adequately express the shock pro-
duced upon myself, in common with all
I the general officers confined here with
ne, BY the occurrence OF this appalling
crime and by the seeming tendency OF
the public mind to connect Southern men
With IL. Need We say that We are no as
sassins, nor the allies OF assassins, be
they from the North or from the South;
and that, coming as we 90 from most OF
the states Of the South, we would be
ashamed OF our own people we're We not
assured they would reprobate this crime.
Under the circumstances 1 could not re-
frain from some expression OF my feel
ings, and / thus utter them to soldier
who will comprehend them.n
A dispatch from Washington tells what
disposal was made of the body of John
Wilkes Booth, who shot President Lin
coin in Ford's theatre Apr. 10, 1865. Aft
err the head and heart had been removed
and deposited in the army medical muse
um at Washington, the body was placed
in charge of two men, who, after various
movements calculated TO battle imperti-
nent curiosity, dug a grave in little spot
OF the ground close to the penitentiary,
where for some years felons had been
buried. Booths headless and heartless
trunk was deposited in this grave, which
was filed, Ieveled and carefully sodded
over, like the other graves Of less Infamous
felons. A strong guard was put in
charge OF the place to keep Il undisturbed
until the grass should grow SO thickly
that no one could ever distinguish the as
sassin's grave from the nameless graves
around IL.
Danville was under military govern
n1ent when The Sixth Corps was pub