Widow Grieves Death After News Of Soldier Husband
A Western paper recalls Mrs. Sarah, widow of John, who died of grief after learning her husband was killed at Buena Vista. The account notes her years of hardship, her journey from New York to Pillsburg, and a visit to the Journal office amid wartime chaos.
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Cincinnati Packet
New York
West
Mexico
Pillsburg
Journal Office
Sarah
John
Buena Vista
Pill
McKee
Kentucky
Woman Learns of Son’s Death From Army Casualty List
In a quiet office a young mother with a small child fears the worst as officials read aloud a list of killed and wounded. The reader spots the name John -, sergeant, kit ED, triggering a scream of heartbreak and a wave of sorrow across the room.
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John
Kit ED
Providence and valor amid war tales from Vera Cruz
The Pansville Democratic Press recalls letters from Capt James Nagle and Lieut Simon Nagle at Vera Cruz with a daguerreotype token and a son’s letter. It reflects on life’s uncertainty, Providence, and a nurse’s cradle of death as soldiers fight and fall. It also retells Gen Taylor’s appeal to troops and a quip between Gen Scott and a volunteer about head protection.
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Pansville
James Nagle
Simon
Nagle
Vera Cruz
Stiss
Chamberlain
Sunday News
Gen.Taylor
Taylor
Enzza
Zack
Train up a child in the way he should go
A moral warns parents against pampering children with finery and display. It argues youth's natural beauty is ruined by vanity as mothers dress and praise, encouraging self love, pride, and extravagance, while urging focus on a cultivated mind and gentle deportment.
Notable Anecdotes and Oddities From Various Lands
A collection of short items recounts touching child workshop wisdom, cautions against vanity, and a harsh charity anecdote. Other notes cover murder and forgery fates, a comic gun mishap, a street yarn tale, shipboard misadventure, and a glimpse of 19th century social scenes and inventions.
Singular Death of Charles Cunningham Lieutenant Governor
The sudden death of Charles Thornton Cunningham, Lieutenant Governor of St Christopher and the Leeward Islands, is reported. He returned to Basseterre in good health to open the Legislature, then vanished after opening a box containing a sister’s portrait, dying before his upstairs room door. The event is noted with high regard for his character.
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Bourne
War
Charles Thornton Cunningham
St. Christopher's
Leeward Islands
West India
Basselton
Government House
England
St.Christopher
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