Monster Serpent of Fire at Vicksburg Assault Ends in Defeat
Detroit Free Press recounts Grant's first full assault on Vicksburg under mistimed hopes of a breakthrough. McClernand leads a costly push against Pemberton's stronglines, but Confederate fire and stout defense turn the offensive into a brutal, bloody failure. Reinforcements fail to turn the tide as Grant shifts to a siege strategy.
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Detroit
Vicksburg
Johnston
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Pemberton
Porter
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Fort Hill
Coer
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McClernand
Ransom
Steele
Jackson
Neval
McClernann
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Ohio
Illinois
Indiana
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Sree
Pees Grant
By Ways of Utah A Strange Unnatural Lake Upon Sight
Two travelers describe Utah with Ogden and Salt Lake City as they tour the Salt Lake shore. They marvel at the lake’s glassy surface, question its depth and outlets, and compare Salt Lake City to New England villages or Edinburgh while praising the city’s clean, pretty houses, flowers, and trees in a calm, contemplative tone.
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Eaward Roberts
Utah
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
the Arts
Ake
New England
Edinburgh
Short of Fingers in the White Mountains Panther Encounter Tale
A New York Sun reader recounts a half hour in the Franconia woods with six horses and a driver missing most fingers from a panther or wildcat attack. The driver describes leaping forty feet, snarling danger, and retreating footprints erased by snow as he crawled to safety with the team. He recalls other mountain dangers from lynxes, bears, and moose, noting dwindling game and odd animal behavior across seasons.
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New York Sun
White Mountain
Franconia
Hosses
Tsan
Berwick
Woodstock
Walt
Thieves of Time and the Value of Hours
A fragment discusses theft of time by idlers who waste others hours claiming regard for leisure. It notes many are respectable people with little labor, unaware of time's value to others, and laments the loss of minutes and hours to those who steal them.
Shall We Dance A Philadelphian Philosopher Sounds Off
A Philadelphia essay defends dancing against critics and urges continued social dancing as beneficial. It highlights the dance as a social glue, arguing it strengthens manners, culture, and fitness, while acknowledging some risks. The piece contends church and society often support dancing and mocks rigid puritanical attacks. It ends with a call to continue dancing.
The Poor Boarder in Bombazine
Fragmentary prose sketches a narrator obsessed with a poor boarder in bombazine. He mocks a past lover, discovers a heart shaped paper with a cryptic note, and hints at her youthful past and romantic history within a brittle narrative tone.
Sitting Bull Sells Battle Club to Cavalry Sergeant
Indian chief Sitting Bull sells his two foot long adze shaped battle club studded with teeth and two seven inch knife blades. Mirrors set into the sides allow signaling by sun rays. He reportedly accepted ten dollars for the relic from a Seventh Cavalry sergeant at Fort Yates.
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Sitting Bull
Seventh Cavalry
Fort Yates
Cross Eyes and Glass Eyes A Doctor Narrates
An oculist explains strabismus and glass eyes in a salon story. A doctor catalogs how cross eyed men suffer social stigma, marriage woes, and damaged self esteem while detailing artificial eyes made in Vienna and the care required to move with the face.
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Stutzebach
Thuringian Forest
Germany
People You Know and Sometimes Wish You Didn't
A humorous assemblage describes various types of apology fans and other social mannerisms. The piece skewers the apologizer, the constant compliment seeker, the impatient waiters, the gossiping barber, the prim and dusty woman, the self talking man, the Monday washwoman, the truth-teller, and the overzealous bookmarker. Each vignette lampoons a common character trope with sharp, light satire.
Linen clothes blamed for summer fashion woes and ridicule
A writer argues that dark clothes stay cooler than light in summer and lampoons linen suits and dusters as frigid, wrinkled, uncomfortable relics. The piece ridicules linen wearers, noting wrinkles, shrinking jackets, and awkward fit, preferring sturdy gun bags as a stylish alternative.
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Peck
Noticp
New York State
Lawn Tennis Banter in Sunny LA Scene
A humorous slice of LA lawn tennis humor describes a sunny match with playful mockery. A shirtless gentleman, a scarlet head plaster on the woman player, and a paddle as a makeshift weapon appear in a light, comic tone. The piece ends noting the bat is a racket and jokes about the players’ sunstruck state.
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J. Kurdette
Zuone
Ginone
Paris
A Queer Plaything of Sierra Leone Children
A traveller returning from Sierra Leone recounts that native children’s favorite plaything is a tiny earth snake under three inches long. The glossy black snake with a pointed head is cherished by the kids who knot its body, make bracelets, or hide it in their woolen hats. The pet snake, named Petecs, is harmless and appears to reciprocate the affection.
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Sierra Leone
Africa
Summer Verse and News Nuggets From Peck's Sun
A mixed-page item excerpt features summer poetry lines from multiple poets, including Luther G. Riggs and J. W. Buley, describing lush fields, heat, and twilight. Interwoven are brief notes from Peck's Sun about military depletion, a MinnesotE epitaph, pomological opinions on trimming fruit trees, and Henry W. Longfellow’s Life with a traveler's station metaphor.
Poetic banter on rhymes and a hat title strip
A fragmented dialogue turns to a playful jab about using a title strip for a hat. The speaker dismisses rhyming Wolsey with bullseye while guiding the reader toward a decorative, initials laden headline concept tied to a modest poetic aim.
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Clarinda
Prelude to a Westward Queen of Industry
Fragmentary verse exalts a dominant western dominion showing Frederic D. Storey as a contextual muse. The piece lauds a sovereign city or region as a patron of arts, crafts, and vast wealth, promising shelter, bread, and protection at its gates. It frames a grand, mythic status amid ages and nations.
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Frederic D. Storey
Drest
Earth
Ind
Bilent
The Boy That Wears a Watch
A boy known for a watch earns envy at school and respect on the street. He twists the chain while talking and notes trains, saying times like twelve ten and eight sixteen. Other boys admire him. he grows studied and distinguished, later pawning his watch to a man he once impressed.
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Colege
Revolution's Surge Drowns Crowned Powers in Poetic Call
The verse declares a restless wave of revolution spreading from shore to shore. It contrasts clerical and regal symbols with Belshazzar's fate, citing Byron and Shelley as prophetic voices whose day approaches.
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B. W. Ball
Pinnacia
Kaiser
Sultan
Belshazzar
Byron
Shelley
New Bedford Radical Review
Arrows for Beaux: Advice on courting and conduct
A list of cautions for young men courting women, urging manners and restraint. It advises bringing candy, avoiding street missteps, avoiding winking at other girls, not sitting on freshly painted stoops, properly contributing to charity with a girl present, not favoring her brother, and ensuring finances before marriage. It emphasizes respectful behavior and prudent choices in courtship.
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New Jersey
Selkirk’s Island
Oppo
Nightingales and Granada in a Romantic Reverie
The poem recalls starry nights and the nightingales as memories of South and Moorish splendor. It contrasts tranquil Grenada delights with a waking year that remains gray and cold, inviting a return to fairy halls and rose crowned hills through imagination.
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Grenada
Carving Quail Etiquette Gets Playful Instruction
Bill Nye humorously narrates butter carving in heat and a quirky quail on toast example. He suggests mortgaging a home to obtain quail, cooking before carving, and placing the bird upright on toast. A second method invites guests to bite the hind leg, easing stiffness at formal dinners.
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Bill Nye
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