War memories illuminate Civil War losses and battles
Hartsyville March 8 Col James A Hoyt Greenville veteran speaks to J L Coker Camp Sons of Veterans detailing Confederate and Union troop counts Civil War casualty totals and battle losses. The talk traces regiments, deaths, and the shifting tides from Sharpsburg to Gettysburg and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Hoyt
Veterans’ Sons
Hartsyville
James A. Hoyt
Greenville
J. L
United States
Southern Historical Society
Samuel Cooper
War Department
Washington
James B. Fry
Bureau of Confederate
Alabama
Fry
North Carolina
South Carolina
Kirkley
United States War Department
Motien
Confederate States
Dorks
Kocman
Pettigrew
Gettysburg
Pickett
Texas
Antietam
Sharpsburg
Georgia
Second Manassas
Praziera Farm
Seven Pines
Richmond
Gaines’ Mill
Frazier
Longstreet
Anderson
Pryora
Wilcox
Featherstone
Frasier
Gettynburg
The Boston Tramp's Lecture Misuses of Will
In a fragment from the Chicago Record remnant, Sauntering Sim mocks a Boston teacher’s speech about employment. He lampoons the word will and its misuses with a parable about a steamship drowning. The lecture ends abruptly as a dog bark interrupts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sauntering Sim
Boston
Prickly Ach Bitters and Odd Advertisements Highlight 19th Century Life
The fragment advertises Prickly Ach Bitters as a remedy for dis ease and digestion, claims liver and kidney benefits, and promotes appetite and vigor. It also includes strange lines about pharmacy notes, a quip about a society girl’s age, a cold remedy claim, and assorted satirical asides on spring riding and knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vads
Evana Pharmacy
Sero Marka Society
W. Grove
The King of Italy and the Peasant Tale
A story from Italian papers recounts a discreet King of Italy in Raccorregi who asks a cowherd for milk. The amused woman laments workers fleeing to sue the king, while the monarch continues his stroll after paying her a gold coin.
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Italy
Racorrigi
March
Navy officer recalls wedding mishap during independence era tale
A distinguished naval officer recounts his Civil War hardships then stumbles at marriage vows. He narrates repeating the line with “all my worldly goods” while the bride remained silent, joking that his wife did not love a thing by his failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
Foes of Freedom and Fables of Poverty in Anti Slavery Discourse
The piece cites Carlyle on America and discusses a tale from Arkanses about a freedman and a Boston seeker. It contrasts northern claims of freedom with southern views and recounts a New York Bowery lodging scene showing stark poverty and racial tension as a moral test.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlyle
America
Ond
Arkanses
Thomas Ost
Boston
New York
Ama “Ohair Houss
Despost Bowery
Nervy Conductor Subdues Dodge City Bully On Train
The Baltimore Sun recounts how conductor Bender on a Santa Fe train near Dodge City faced down a burly armed bully. After a tense exchange, Bender drew a shotgun and forced the man off the train as it halted, leaving passengers relieved as the car quieted and the train resumed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Eldridge Monrey
Baltimore
Dodge City
Kangii
Bender
Dodo
Faren
Baltimore Sun
Lord Randolph Churchill Joke Resurfaces in Retort
A remark about an earlier doctoring of Lord Salisbury surfaces as a joke where Salisbury asks if any friend has had a carbuncle on the neck and replies that he has, thus humorously declining another medical intervention.
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Gettysburg
Wm. F. Fox
United States Army
Hancock’s
Joss
Minnesota
New Hampshire
Lord Randolph Churchill
Lord Salisbury
Salisbury
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Columbia State
Washington City
Lee
Meade
Sharpaburg
Chancelloravius
Spottsylvania
Wilderaoes
Cold Harbor
Shiloh
Chickamauga
Atlanta
Leo
McClellan
Grant
Wilderness
Boston Tramp
Oid
Alual
Chicago
King of
Fie
Pierce
Eusla
Seksonvilie
Tin
FacSinila Signature OF
Castoria
Bears
TOLLY
F. Tolly & Son
Reliable Depot
Andaman, B. 0
John T. Surriss
Strickland
Dewtist
Merchants Bank
Atitiatirati
Lata
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