Fifty and Fifteen Poem Recollection of Father
A narrator recalls a dawn with his father counting years as "He fifty fifteen." The memory, filled with garden gates, stars, and perfumes, contrasts past youth with present age. The speaker muses on changes over time and vows to sing for his father in heaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artemus
Origger
Chris
Columbus
Congress
Cortez
Pizarro
Walker
Vanity Fair
Minnesota
Pope
St. Paul
Daughters Step Forward in Nation's War Effort
A reflective verse urges women to support the country as heroic men bear burdens. The speaker contrasts public displays of patriotism with private loss and proposes offering personal love to aid the nation's cause. The poem frames sacrifice, duty, and reconciliation between love and patriotism.
Wit and Wisdom Fragments Reach for Light and Laughter
A long miscellany of quips proverbs and postal era sayings unfolds with humor and irony. Bits on prices morals trials and manners mix with quaint translations and a feisty Charleston Mercury line about Yankees and niggers, closing with a zany epitaph and a stray zoo anecdote.
Amicous Dispatches From Third Indiana Cavalry In Virginia
The Third Indiana Cavalry reports hard marching from Knoxville Maryland across the Potomac to Purcellville and Ashbys Gap. They describe skirmishes near Upperville and Manassas Gap with Hampton Legion, losses mostly among rebels, and praise Governor Morton while noting illness in Company K. They anticipate moving toward the Mississippi Gulf expedition and vow to care for soldiers’ families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amosvile
Rappahannock Co
Eorror
Maryland
Pleasanton
Knoxville
Potomac
Berlin
Lovettsville
Snicker’s Gap
Purcellville
Ashby’s Gap
Upperville
Shenandoah
Manassas Gap
Piedmont
Markham
Hampton “Legion
Plage
Culpepper
Amosville
Little Washington
Uo. C
Amicus
Exchange of 68th Regiment Prisoners Brings Governor’s Speech
In a damp camp morning the 68th Regiment learns they are exchanged and no longer prisoners. Gov Morton and Col Carrington ride in with an escort as the Governor delivers a stirring briefing, defending the unit and praising brave sacrifices amid the war’s pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Enrrorn
Mumfordsville
Indianapolis
Chase
Douglas
Grape Cure at Durkheim Aimed at Healing Tubercular Cases
A London Review account describes Durkheim Germany as a grape cure center where patients eat four to nine pounds of grapes daily for three to six weeks. The regimen, with strict diet and limited meals, targets mucus membrane diseases including bronchitis and early tuberculosis, drawing patients from across Germany and nearby regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durkheim
Rhine
Bavaria
London Review
Germany
Vevay
Montreux
Naraan
Stoppann
Adrian
Michigan
New York Regiment
How to Be a Happy Farmer and Multiplier of Hands
Practical guide urging young farmers to gain diverse skills beyond plowing. It contrasts John Smith’s limited repair and husbandry abilities with John Jones’s versatile, resourceful approach, urging early training for children to foster independence and tool use. It also reports horse feeding timing and sugar syrup from sorghum experiments, noting water before corn and post-work rest plus hay and water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Smith
John Jones
Rural Register
H. A. Sheldon
Addison Co
Towell
American: Agriculturaliat
Interesting Miscellany on Aborigines and Old Times
A long quirky essay riffs on early colonial contact, praising and critiquing Columbus, with mock sympathy for Indigenous life, slangy caricatures, and satirical jabs at secession and modern metropolitan life. It includes anecdotes from Baltimore and Reading drafts, plus recollections of hospital scenes, a roadwork mishap, and notes on Civil War era events and slang.
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Loyal Women
Mns. Browning
WIT and Wisdom
Wuaiin
Deatau
Tom Hol
Mississippi
Susan
Thomas
Mr. March
Charleston Mercury
South
Lorrie
Zoological School
Camomile
Sartin
Erasce Xerrea
Spurr
Uyrs
Eich
OUR Army Correspondence
THE
THIRD
Indiana Cavalry
Gulf
Indiana
Gov. Morton
68Th Regiment
New Bedford
Mass
Mercury
Baltimore
Antietam
Col
Preston
Louisville
Col. P
Col. Preston
Secess
Mr. B
Col Preston
P K
New Orleans
Sars
Reading
Kupp
Rupert Corter
Jefferson City
Hannah
Easte
Green Isle
Paddy
Blue Ridge
Vestall’s
Harper’s Ferry
Snicker’s
Alexandria and
Harper's Ferry
Ashby’s
Alexandria
Winchester
Chester’s Gap
Thornton’s Gap
Lee
Gordonsville
Antprose Everitt Barnstipe
United States Volunteer Service
Philadelphia
London Times
Dumfrieshire
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