Record Data
Source citation
“On the Wane,” Shreveport (LA) News, August 15, 1862, p. 2: 4.
Newspaper: Publication
Shreveport News
Newspaper: Headline
On the Wane
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
4
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
ON THE WANE. – Lincoln’s call for 300,000 more men to defend the “National Capital,” is not being obeyed with much [alacricity?] it seems Ohio has a quota of 12,000 and yet she has only 2,000 in the field. According to Northern accounts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts have done almost nothing.
