Item Nos. 461-484, 1862–1863

Topics include:

Politics: Items 461, 463-470, 472-475, 479-484 (new state, its announcement; the US government and war; a feud in the military)



Government/War: Items 462, 476-477, 481-482, 484 (death of a man on B&O train, Camp Chase prisoner, redress for loss of enslaved persons to US Army, "colored colonization" law, citizen prisoners)



Family and Friends: Items 471-472, 476a, 478 (church activities, Morgantown news)