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Fremont Journal
Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio
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At a Union meeting in Huntersville, Alabama, on May 16, former rebel officers Mayor A. C. Baird and Colonel A. L. Sheffield delivered speeches expressing repentance and submission to the U.S. government after the Confederacy's defeat.
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At a Union meeting held in Huntersville, Marshall county, Alabama, on the 16th of May, Mayor A. C. Baird, late of the rebel army, made the following speech:
We have met to bury the tomahawk-to smoke the calumet of peace. All of us ought to reverence that government which we could not destroy, and to which we have been compelled to submit. I shall do it cheerfully."
He was succeeded by Colonel A. L. Sheffield, late of the Forty-eighth Alabama regiment, who said:
"I have done all I could to establish the Southern Confederacy. I carried a musket for three years! I am whipped. I have been whipped for twelve months. The Southern Confederacy does not exist. I stand to-day like an erring child who has been whipped by his father!"
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Huntersville, Marshall County, Alabama
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16th Of May
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speakers acknowledge defeat of the southern confederacy and express submission to the union government.
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At a Union meeting, Mayor A. C. Baird spoke of burying the tomahawk and reverencing the government they could not destroy, submitting cheerfully. Colonel A. L. Sheffield admitted efforts to establish the Southern Confederacy, stated he had been whipped for twelve months, and compared himself to an erring child whipped by his father.