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First Prize for a New Orleans Privateer

Steamer Calhoun

Says the N. O. Delta:

The swift low pressure steamer Calhoun, Jack Wilson, fitted out here as a privateer, sailed from this port last evening, and outside the bar captured a prize. A bark, the “Ocean Eagle,” Capt. Luce, from Rockland, Maine. Cargo 3144 bbs. lime.

The Calhoun is admirably equipped for her peculiar service, having 100 of the bravest experienced men on board, and carrying large guns and an ample supply of small arms.

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May 23, 1861 – Letter from Camp Anderson

Soldiers in camp (Matthew Brady)

Correspondence of the Belmont Chronicle.  

CAMP ANDERSON.  

LANCASTER, Ohio, May 20, 1861.  

Dear Chronicle: I presume your readers are all aware that Capt. Tallman’s company of Belmont boys are in the 17th Regiment, at Camp Anderson, Lancaster, Ohio; and, according to promise, I will try to give you some account of their situation, &c.  

We are in a most beautiful camp — occupying the fair grounds of the Fairfield County Agricultural Society — a beautiful, level piece of ground, about one mile North of the city of Lancaster, well supplied with good water and covered with a nice green sod.