Dead snake display sparks Confederate reunion tale
Savannah readers recount a glass case snake tied to the first Georgia soldier killed in the Civil War. W. Edward Platt preserves the specimen from his father’s service, with older affidavits and soldier reminiscences tracing early war deaths and a Virginia battle at Big Bethel.
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J. Willis Levy
Georgia
W. Edward Platt
New York
Georgia Confederacy
Albany, Ga
Hoitor News and Advertiser
Col. Wisher
Bull Run
Auguste
North Carolina
Firat
Savannah
T Ensacola
Col. Ramsey
Augusta
Thia
Big Bethel Church
Gut Town
Virginia
Benjamin Butler
Virgin
Wadeworth
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Baltimore
Richmond
North
South
16Th
B. Wight
Vensacole
Mla
Seecanion
Bugler Parkyn
Venwatola
Ill
Anuke
W. Edward Plate
Chorley A. Malt
Platt
Ingler Parkyn
John J. Miller
Peter G. Burum
W. J. Freeman
A Little Dinner at the Colonel's Augusta Gathering
In Augusta a Colonel hosts an informal party at his home inviting strangers and notable guests. The table overflows with crimson roses and flags while stories span history tragedy and humor. General Grant is invoked in a remembered tale and a parade anecdote recalls familiar faces from the war.
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Anid
Savork
Holwan
Indiana
Treasury
Bull Run
Congress
Judge Culberson
Holman
Augusta
Richmead
Sheard
General Grant
Grant
Charles City County
Richmond
Petersburg
Heaven
General Louie
Beauregard
General Jackson
John * Allen
Mason
Illinois
Allen
Backa
Civil War Veterans in Fifty-Eighth Congress
Seventy seven men who served in either Union or Confederate armies will sit in the Fifty-Eighth Congress with a mix of ex Union and ex Confederate veterans in both Senate and House. In the Senate thirteen ex unions and thirteen ex Confederates. in the House forty four Union veterans and seventeen Confederates. A brief domestic aside follows about a social reception and departure preparations.
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National Legislative Body
United States
Senate
Grant story told by civil engineer of Front of Petersburg
Col George Inman recalls a winter 1864 incident when Captain Hamilton of the Confederate army was captured near Federal lines with spying papers. Hamilton faced execution but Colonel Hamilton refused to spy tomorrow, arguing the order endangered his only son. Grant ordered compliance, and the next morning the execution detail found the tent empty.
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Lon Livingston
Sharmen
Georgia
Livingston
Seostor
Twan
Atlanta
General Gordon
Gordon
Gen. Gordon
George Inman
Grant
Patersburg
Richmond
U.S. Grant
Hamilton
Gan. Lse
Favorise
Inman
Bs Hamilton
Enigmatic Confederate Spy Contact in San Francisco
In San Francisco a professional man met Captain Hamilton, executed by Colonel Hamilton earlier. The spy, a Confederate soldier, narrowly escaped death after a midnight visitation by a man in a blue uniform and a black slouch hat who proved to be General Grant. The stranger granted a countersign, and both men returned to Confederate lines before sunrise.
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Jngian
San Francisco
Hamilton
Inman
Grant
Thore
N. S. Journal
Confidence man and farmer plot quick wealth scheme
A wary confidence man pitches an investment to a farmer. The farmer contemplates and offers a cautious plan to invest a dime initially and reinvest profits, growing the stake as success proves itself. The dialogue suggests a rapid compound-profit scheme in a rural setting.
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Theinaneier
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Augusta Chronicle
State of
Richmond County
Vomor
Firag Daly
Comny
Georgia Regi Dnal
Clinch Rifles
Goo, C. Jones
Newary Public
W. Ed Platt
Wheeler
Bnstion
Catharine Black
Gen. Grant
Raraf Financier
Castoria
Bears
Riley
Bucks Miniature
Alan
Pescaias
Beta
Fretwell-Hanks GO
É&O
Vandiver
Vandiver Bros. & Major
Evans Pharmacy
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