Mr. Clemens received notice of his appointment on the 27 of March, received his papers on the 20 of April. We then left Memphis on the 26, reached Keokuk again on the 27. Mr. C started to St. Louis that night. He left Keokuk on the 4 of July to visit his sister P. A. […]
politics
Miners try to start a union
In May 1863, Comstock miners initiated efforts to form an association. The following year, the Storey County Minersโ League became the first sustained attempt at unionization of miners in the American West. Organized during a local depression, the League called for a $4 minimum daily wage for underground work and demanded โclosed shops,โ insisting companies […]
Orion has to fix Nye’s mistake
Humbolt County officials ask Orion for rifles but Orion refuses until he knows that the people he’s sending it to are loyal to him and the Emancipation Proclamation. Before left in January for SF on his way to DC., he had hurriedly appointed some men with southern sympathies. Orion has to replace them as they […]