Abbeville Times A Paper to Be Published in Wilcox County
A historical note recounts Abbeville Times A Paper to Be Published in Wilcox County and outlines editor scissor work, advice on proper clipping, and the value of disciplined editing. It also mentions Stainton’s near death and revival, a Wilcox county paper project by A J Harp, and a Putnam county guano club saving over three thousand dollars.
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Pinta
Abbeville
Wilcox County
A.J. Harp
Eliaville
Schley County
Hawkinsville
Putnam County
Getting There The South’s rise and Abbeville boom
An informant in a Charleston hotel notes the South’s political ascent, predicting Sue Harris will secure the vice presidency by 1889 with hopeful names like Fitzhugh Lee, Gordon, Mahone, and B K Bruce as Democratic and Republican contenders. Abbeville Ga reports a genuine boom with land sales, a new Abbeville Times prospectus, and the rail line extension to Abbeville planned in 1837. In Pennsylvania law a seller of deadly weapons to minors faces fines up to 300 dollars. a Sweitzer case is cited.
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Ricumony
Southern
Herald
Escuange
Sue
House of Representatives
Army
Navy
Fitzhugh Lee
Virginia
Gordon
Georgia
Billy Mahone
Virginis
B. K. Bruce
Mississippi
Bruce
Royal House of
Dahomey
Ireland
Fitz Lee
Fitz
Michigan
Mahone
Abbeville
Nightly Civil War Concerts Between Blue and Gray Camps
A Chattanooga veteran recalls the siege of the city during Bragg’s 1863 campaign. He describes moonlit nights with rival bands playing national airs from both camps and a joint closing of “The Girl I Left Behind Me” followed by united cheers from Union and Confederate pickets.
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Chattanooga
Tinea
Indiana
Bragg
Chicamaugs
Mission Ridge
Columbia
Confederate Musket Treasure Revealed in Concord Home
Charles Folsom traded two old army muskets to J Edwin Gage for about $2 worth of coin. Hidden in the stock butt, a hollow box held six 50 cent silver coins, three 25c pieces, two Confederate $20 bills, eight musket balls, and a letter from a Confederate soldier’s wife describing Yankee raids and her father’s capture. The weapon appears taken from a soldier killed in battle.
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Concord Monitor
Charles Folsom
Bnoscawid
J. Edwin Gage
Folsom
Big Poker Game to Eastman Ends in Blazing Bluff
The largest poker game in the area unfolded in Eastman on Friday night. Three players, two Georgians and one Northerner, started with a $100 jackpot, raising it to $15,000 before a Georgian revealed a straight flush after a dramatic bluff. Spectators watched in tense silence as the hand concluded.
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Eastman
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Thornton Wheatley
Hilliard Institute
Forsyth, GA
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Americus
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J. A. Ansley
R. T. Byrd
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