Confederate Soldier Recounts Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights
A Confederate veteran recalls defiant marching, brutal combat on Maryland Heights and at Harper’s Ferry. He describes Kershaw and Barkdale brigades advancing fences and logs, surrender rumors, captured Yankee supplies, and the march toward Antietam after the battle.
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Ghent
Ulonel
J. D. Kennedy
Sin
Harper's Ferry
Kershaw
Joatin
Maryland
Maryland Heights
Cobb
Crampton's Gap
McClellan
Harper's Ferry Hay
Potomac
Tiz
Battle at Gaines Mill recalled by Sixteenth Michigan veteran
A Civil War letter recounts the Gaines Mill fight on June 28 1862. The writer, Palmetto Sharpshooter Company B, recalls Longstreet’s attack and a close encounter with the Sixteenth Michigan in an open field battle that left many Union dead and wounded. He mentions the surrender at Appomattox and notes the Palmetto Sharpshooters later attacked front of the same regiment.
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K. Hi. Bullard
Milledgeville
Sixteenth
Michigan
U.S
Palmetto
Gaines’ Mill
Longstreet
Foo
Jenkins
Hyory
Ballard
Palnetto
Arma
Sixteenth Michigan
A Civil War Veteran Recalls a Petersburg Camp Kitchen
A veteran recounts near Petersburg how a single shell repeatedly strafed his company street. He describes the cook stubbornly keeping a central fire, the kettles dangling from a pole, and how a shell eventually wrecked all three pots and ruined dinner, forcing relocation.
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Petersburg
Denner
New York
Sen
Old Army Surgeon Faces Cat Spelling Bet in Mess
A humorous tale recalls an army surgeon famed for jokes rebuking literary faults. In a bet over how Captain G spells cat, the doctor nearly erupts, declaring too old to be trifled with as the exchange ends in a grave, rigid show of pride amid the mess.
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Dontor
Mississippi River Tales Of Its Powers On Towns And Sandbars
An old steamboat man explains the Mississippi's forceful work shaping settlements along its banks. He notes swift currents and heavy sediment deposition, with sunken debris and even tree roots diverting flows to create shifting sandbars and isolated communities. The river repeatedly reshapes itself, erasing and forming habitable centers over time.
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Asid
Mississippi River
Caesar
Nile
Pricat
Tracca
Mexico
Mississippi
How to Become Wealthy, Dr. Gives Blunt Advice
An octogenarian New Hampshire physician known for blunt philosophy counsels a young man seeking wealth. He advises industrious work and strict frugality, saving and investing to grow wealth enough to be rich by the physician’s age, though he wryly notes the cost in character.
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New Hampshire
Buffalo
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G. A. Evangs
Atlanta
Histuria
Tait
Harper
South Carolina
Barkedale
Moraws
Potomac River
Kerahaw
Barksdale
Ile
Theo
Evan
New Jerusalem
Antietam
Sharpsbury
W. A. Jotssan
Gia
D. M. Ressen
Ye. B. Paluietto
Tyrol
Hee
Sean'po “Nore
London
Pierce
Verce
Cenune Castoria Atwayva
Lnibiziz
JOS
J. Fretwell
Ligon & Ledbetter
Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co
MW. M. Matiticon
State
ASZNT
Peopleu’ Sank
Anderson
8. C
Hill-Orr Drug Co
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