Assured Lincoln sought payment for slaves in peace talks
Col Watterson’s Louisville Journal piece argues Lincoln and Seward discussed compensating slave owners as part of Union terms. It recounts Stephens’s reported statements on tax and indemnity, the Fortress Monroe conference, Cabinet opposition, and Lincoln’s proposal and rejection on February 5, 1865.
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United States Senate
Veat
Min- Aduri
Col
Watterson
Louisyville-Vourier Journal
Lincoln
Lee
Stephin
Nia
Kinewla
Soward
North
Tie
Lincely
Stephens
Fortress Monroe
Seward
Washington
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Bodice
United States
Ameron
Alamir
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiand
Maryland
Missionippi
Missouri
North Carolina
South Carolina
Pennesee
Virginia
Abraham Lincoln
Wi Jn Bge
Prisoner of War Memoir From Nashville Penitentiary
D. T. Walden recounts his Confederate imprisonment in Nashville during 1864. He details hunger, scant rations, improvised schemes to obtain more food, reliance on visiting women delivering scraps, inadequate water, and brutal prison conditions. The section also recalls two gauntlet boxers named Cappa and Powell whose bare fist fights drew crowd bets and factional support among prisoners.
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Nashville
Tenn
Battle of the Wilderness
Clayton County
Sherman
Atlanta
Jonesboro
Tundur
Jeff Miller
Mince
Cumberland
Cappa
Powell
D. T. Walden
Atlanta Journal
A Thoughtful Mother Urges Respectful Parenting
A thoughtful mother says to raise courteous children through respectful treatment. Children imitate manners, so parents should guard their own. Reproof should be private, as public scolding harms self respect and is unwarranted even for better behavior.
Perpetual motion dreams haunt a cautious era
An old bachelor argues marriage is a witch and a kick while perpetual motion remains a constant failure, reflecting playful skepticism about progress and romance in a bygone period.
The Price of Progress in Human Lives
A stark meditation on how every advance and construction costs human life. The author notes wars, churches, tunnels, coal mines, gold, ships, bridges, and railroads each claim workers’ lives, arguing progress is inseparable from loss.
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St. Louis Republic
Too Late Angel warns youth to begin life work now
A Michigan Christian Advocate piece recounts an angel visiting three times, first guiding a child who prefers play over duty, then a schoolboy who delays study, and finally an old man whose life work remains undone as night falls. The parable urges prompt action and purpose.
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Angal
Ted
Michigan Christian Advocate
Reading in his Paper George Schaub buys Pain Balm
George Schaub of New Lebanon Ohio, a reader of the Dayton Volkszeitung, reports his wife suffered eight weeks of back pain until using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. After a few days she felt reborn and could resume chores. Orr Gray & Co sell the liniment. tasseled household tips follow about simple fixes for everyday annoyances.
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George Schaub
New Lebanon
Ohio
Dayton Volkszeitung
Chamberlain
Orr Gray & Co
Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Ad
An advice filled plea urges families to buy Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy now to prevent nighttime trips to town during the busy season. It claims wide praise as the best medicine for bowel complaints for children and adults, sold by Orr-Gray & Co.
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Orr-Gray & Co
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Hampton Roads
DR. C. Walden
Tenth
Georgia Regiment
Dr. Golden Discovery
Abram Freer
Rockbridge
Greetic Co. Oh
Aly
Pierce
Common Sense
Andy
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N.Y
Fuan Life
Harrows
Perfect
Roman
Terrell
Klondike
Sullivan Hardware Co
Castoria
What Is
Astoria
Vandiver
J. J. Major
E. P. Vandiver
Vandiver Bros. & Major
C. A. Reed Music House
Tony
G. F. Tolly & Son
Old Reliable Furniture Dealers
Depot St
Anderaou
Strickland
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co
M. M. Mattison
Poopion’ Bank Building
Andereon
B. G
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