Remembering Gaines Mill Color Guard and Sergt Gregg
A veteran recounts the Battle of Gaines Mill on June 27 1862 detailing the First Regiment color guard including Color Sergeant J H Taylor and Sergt W W Gregg. He recalls the heroic stand of thirteen color bearers amid heavy fire and Gregg’s self sacrifice on the battlefield near Richmond.
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South Carolina
Gaines
Mill
Sufukon
Iolor
Gaines’ Mill
State Capitol
J. 11. Taylor
Richland Rifles
Columbia
Waana
Taylor
Pinckney
Shubrick Hayne
Howard
Sergt. Gregg
Col
J. F. J. Caldwell
Firat
Col. Hammond
Orr
Crenshaw
Hera
Tay- Joram Myrelf
Laliyere
Todd
Ldn
Ife
Shubrie Wayne
Wayne
Dominic Spellman
Co. K
Trish
Hayne
Gen. Gregg
Thomas’ Georgie
Richmond
Gregg
Alabama
Rankes
Jonathan
David
Tam
Greve
Groge
C. V
Eulur Guard
Taives’ Mill
Counterfeit Ring Smears Through Retail Outlets
A New Orleans Democrat report details a counterfeit operation where a refined woman uses a pocketbook of fake and real bills to pass for legitimate money. She targets big stores, employing a boy to slip her false notes and exit unnoticed, while she tests others’ vigilance with calm, practiced ease.
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Coumertai
Winney Ishovers
Indy
Mel
New Orleans Pines
Dyspepsia cures and health ads from old columns
An OCR collage notes Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy promising quick relief and health gains. Also promotes One Minute Cough Care and DeWitt's Little Early Risers. Mentions sugar era data, Mexican mines output, and multiple patent medicine pitches with local druggists.
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Cubs
C. W.williams
Sterling Run
Evans
Thia
American Sugar Refining Company
The
Trust
W. H. Shipman
Beardaley
Mion
Evans ‘Harmacy
Washington
DeWitt
Kyaus Pharmacy
The Soul Beyond Life and the Hope of Afterlife
A meditation on death and the soul suggests life persists beyond the body. It traces beliefs from various faiths and urges self-subjugation and love to reach a blessed hereafter. The author argues the soul endures, and humanity seeks a universal power and meaning beyond material life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heewa Bo
Aml
Heaven
Hell
Guardian Angela
Enoch
God
Elysian Fields
India
Jesus
Origin of The Penknife explained in old usage
An explanation of why pocketknives became called penknives tracing to quill pens before 1820. The piece notes pens were goose quills, problems with split quills, and a sharp knife used to remake them. It links the term pen to Latin pena meaning feather and cites pen production counts in England and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
England
United States
Too Busy to Gas Rock Bottom Prices Spark Record Store Trade
The notice thanks customers for trade as Dean's Patent Flour prompts big wagon loads and claims a 38 percent cash sales increase since September 1st versus last year and 16 percent over the year before. It promises dry goods shoes plantation supplies and groceries at rock bottom prices with guarantees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Printera
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Heroes
Cwinshie State
Colombia
Levin Tau
Chopra
Lytid Dodd
Cypore
Colar
Hagie
W. W
Marion Voonty
Oilers
Shoying Hs Queers
T. J. Mondor
Tyner
Hill-Orr Drag Co
Wilhite & Wilhite
Penknife
Paris
Sroanda
Womans
Dean & Ratliffe
McCully Bros Chattanooga
C. D. Anderson & Bro
Georgia
Farminia
Ariretill
G. D. Anderson & Bro
Leo
John T. Burris
John T. Burriss
Mohn
Hayes Solla
United Besken
Gainéaville
Alzodd
al Popaias
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