The City of Moundsville is gearing up to build an outdoor fitness station that would be only the second of its kind in West Virginia – and an organization with a long history of helping the city has pitched in a significant chunk of money to make it happen. Leigh Ann Scherich, a representative of […]
There will be two free events this coming week at the Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library. One will be at 6:30p.m. on Tuesday and the other at 6 p.m. on Thursday. For those who wish to learn more about Civil War history they will want to be at the library Tuesday as local author and archivist […]
The outlook for the re-nomination and re-election of President Abraham Lincoln does not appear promising.
The nearly three-year-old Civil War continues to rage and many Northerners shake their heads in disbelief as their sons continue to die by the thousands each month on Southern battlefields. They doubt Republican Lincoln’s ability to bring hostilities to a peaceful close.
Most leaders in the Republican Party now say that the party is not strong enough alone to re-nominate Lincoln so they form a Union Party with Republicans and War Democrats who support the president and his war policies. The party will have its presidential convention in June in Baltimore.