Movements at Chancellorsville by Posey’s Mississippi Brigade
In March 1863 Posey’s Mississippi Brigade moved to United States Ford on the Rappahannock. The narrative recalls a rear attack by Federal cavalry, the crossing of Hooker’s army, and Stonewall Jackson’s death during the Chancellorsville fighting. The account highlights Moody’s battery support, the crossing of the works, and the brigade’s role in the assault while remembering Jackson.
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Frank H. Foote
Philadelphia
Posey
Fredericksburg
Rappahannock River
United States Ford
Rappahannock
Germania Ford
Hooker
Chancellorsie
George W. Y
Opporstaney Cody
StonesVall Jackm
Mother Earth
Remal
Ficeey
Moody
Chancellorsville Yard
Forty Eighth
Lee
Jackson
Vacation invites to a country farm from Bill Arp
The letter from Bill Arp invites the Cousins to visit the Georgia farm, detailing plans for travel with family, a dog, and two goats. It humorously lists farm fare and chores, mentions fish, huckleberries, berries, and sugar, and recalls country life and a rattlesnake incident while praising the air, water, and scenery.
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BN Arp
Atlanta Constitution
Carl
Tam
Caliph of Begedad
Alabama
Bill Arp
N. B
Gwinnett
K Desk at Cincinnati Telephone Office
A Cincinnati Times item describes a kickers desk at the local telephone company where troublesome subscribers are moved for special handling. General Manager Stone tours the exchange, explains the system, and humorously learns the visitor’s own line was likely placed on the same K desk, prompting a quick check for safety.
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Cincinnati Times
Stone
Summer Hotel Veranda Exchange with a Supreme Court Chief Justice
A visitor overhears a quarrelsome exchange between a noble old gentleman and his wife on a hotel veranda. The husband delivers sharp evasions while the wife asserts her stance. A bystander learns the speaker is the chief justice of the state's Supreme Court, prompting curiosity about identity.
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Derrick
Supreme Court
He Wouldn't Tell Merchant Traveller
Young Nubbins visited his girl Mary despite her father’s disapproval. The roommate questions him about last night and a close call with the family, while the pair hint at a risky moment on the sofa that night.
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Nubbins
Mary
A Chapter on Legs and His Aversion to Other Body Parts
A humorous Brooklyn Eagle essay surveys man’s obsession with legs over whiskers and other traits. It dramatizes a character whose self worth rests on his legs, detailing how he admires, envies, and defends them, arguing legs define status and identity while other features pale beside the leg’s glory.
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Brooklyn Eagle
The Man Who Has Been Away Returns Taunting City
A New Orleans Times-Democrat piece describes "The Man Who Has Been Away" as a yearly street figure who bores passersby with boasts of holidays at sea and fishing. He then feigns concern for the listener, pushing them to travel or change, provoking irritation and even urges of violence in readers. The text notes how locals endure him yet resent his intrusion as summer heat and poverty mutter beneath.
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Apollo
New Orleans Times-Democrat
George
Governor’s
Bedloe’s Islands
Dyersburg
Tenn
Clay Porter
Noah
Mount
Ararat
Toombs
Judas Iscariot
Cleiburne
Thomas
Hill
New York Exchange
Raphael
Mule
Kentucky
A Day in the Woods Delights of a Sunday School Picnic
Robert J. Burdette humorously details a Sunday school picnic under a storm. Children and teachers endure rain as a cake survives a lightning strike, a dog is injured, and the umbrella bearing treasurer forgets a name while awaiting campers.
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Robert J. Burdette
A Scotch Subaltern and a 400 Foot Fall
A public opinion note recounts a Gibraltar guard mishap where a subaltern explains why his report says nothing extraordinary since guard mounting after a fellow officer fell 400 feet and died. He quips that only a fatal fall would make the event extraordinary.
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Gibraltar
N. B
Chivalrous Irishman Disorients Sawing Scene
An Irish immigrant, seeing a man and boy sawing with a cross cut saw, misreads the act as a theft attempt. He strikes the man in the head and orders the boy to flee, crying out a crude expletive as he escapes with the misperceived prize.
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Carl Pretzel
Evening Social Exchange at Somerville Journal
After Evening Prayer Meeting, Bobby Short asks Miss DeLong to escort her home. She humorously guides him to take her hand rather than his arm, and they exchange polite refusals and polite suggestions in a light social vignette.
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Somerville Journal
Bobby Short
Miss DeLong
Mr. Short
Working Under Water How To Become A Submarine Expert
A New York Sun account describes how divers learn their craft and gain skill underwater. The speaker dismisses tall tales of ghosts and corpses in sunken ships, insisting true divers cannot see much below the hull and showing a shield badge as proof of expertise.
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New York Sun
The Divers Life and Skills of New York Men
The dialogue profiles New York divers led by Funeral Bob, detailing how ten divers hold high class licenses and work across the country and Europe. It covers training from sea service to air pumps, underwater trades, danger from pressure, and the need for broad practical skills beyond wreck diving.
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F. C
Europe
Bob
Robert 8. Russell
New York
Bill Smith
Health Department
Port Morris
North Brother Island
Diving for treasure and a future walking match on Sound
The speaker recalls heavy diving suits, sleep during dives, and dangers of slack water work around Governors and Bedloe's Islands. He notes divers' pay rates from $6 with gear provided to $35–$50 per day when supplying own apparatus. He cites Captain Kidd era work near Peekskill and records a future walking match on the bed of the Sound, claiming eight miles in eight hours and thirty seven minutes in July 1878.
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Catskill Creek
Governor's
Bedloe’s Islands
Hussar
Dan Joslin
Peekskill
Captain Kidd
Riker’s Island
A Cheerful Visitor Brightens Sickroom in Detroit
A cheerful neighbor visits Mrs Moon to lift gloom in the sick chamber. She recalls Liddy Ann Crozer’s decline into the asylum and urges Mrs Moon to focus on recovery for the sake of her children. The visitor jokes about keeping down doleful talk and promises to return soon.
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Detroit Free Press
Miss Moon
Debby Ann
Syd
Mrs Moon
Debby
Mr. Moon
Josie
Agin
Liddy Ann
Wealth and Pride in a Place of Poverty
Arkansaw Traveller records a rural interview with Martin Smith the shock-collar maker who laments the arrogance of a rich neighbor. He recalls times when money meant nothing to him and explains how he lost his five dollar bill and coins while adamant that wealth should not lord it over poorer folks.
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Arkansaw
Martin Smith
Haywood Place
Life in Rain and Immortality in Thoreau's Quiet Walk
In a brisk, nature drenched meditation, Thoreau contemplates rain and movement through spring fields. The speaker finds life, clarity, and a strange immortality in rain soaked steps, mossy rocks, and sparrows as fox colored shadows glide by.
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Senos
Still Waltz at Ocean Grove Sparks Parental Gaze
A curious couple, watched by the girl's parents, stands on Wesley Lake at Ocean Grove where a moonlit waltz from an Asbury Park hotel echoes across the water. The couple insists the pose is harmless as the resort bans dancing but not still waltzing by the lake.
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Clara Belle
Cincinnati Enquirer
Ocean Grove
Wesley Lake
Asbury Park
Asbury Hotel
Sophy
Showing Off
Little Sammy in the Farr family is hailed as a prodigy and is urged to read from the Bible for guests. He opens at a random page and recites with confidence, mistakenly beginning with a misquoted verse about lighting a candle, reflecting the humorous scene.
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Harper’s Bazar
Sammy
Farr
Quirky hotel remark from Crosby County editor in New Orleans
Colonel Bill Snort of the Crosby County Clarion and Farmer's Vindicator visited a New Orleans hotel and, on seeing his room, quipped that a guest paying weekly bills has little need for a fire escape and wondered what use remains after payment. The remark hints at a mystery about the hotel.
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Texas Siftings
Bill Snort
Crosby County Clarion and Farmer’s Vindicator
New Orleans
Beaux and Belles of New Guinea Described by Missionary
A Port Moresby missionary depicts New Guinea society with vivid attire and adornments. He notes tall men with painted faces, stone nose ornaments, feathers, and intricate ornaments, while women wear many trinkets before marriage and heavy tattoos after. Fashion exerts strict control, and comparisons to global elites are made.
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New Guinea
Beaux and Belles
New York Commercial Advertiser
Beaux and Belles of
Port Moresby
Joseph
New
Buffalo Bachelor Beaus Urged to Honor Buffalo Belles
A brief-item notes that Buffalo bachelors should follow a chivalrous rule, likening it to an opera admiral, to win and keep the favor of Buffalo belles. The fragment hints at etiquette guidance and social expectations in the local scene.
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Buffalo
Charity ball mark sparks advice on attire
A dressy crowd at a lawn party mockingly points out a middle-aged bachelor’s shirt collar and a peculiar mark above his mon d stud. The man admits to placing the lead penn on the shirt during the charity ball.
BRIC A BRAC and Evening Verse Snippets From 19th Century Press
A collage of rhymes and quips from多 newspapers and magazines capturing playful verses and light anecdotes. Bits include a weary woman’s bedtime line, a playful Ada Columbiana aside, mock dialogues about a streetcar’s speed, and comic scraps from Life and Puck. Includes songlike stanzas and a cartoonish sense of urban miscellany.
Love Isn’t Enough in Prairie Loneliness and Witty Verse
A light verse about a poet and his wife cooking poorly and drinking in bars ends with “Love isn’t enough” while a Manitoba prairie piece portrays a lonely woman on the vast grasslands. The text contrasts domestic woes with stark, expansive longing.
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Chicago
Suni
Heigho
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Richmond
Longstreet
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Jackpone
McClellan
Howard
Tau
Sions
Napoleon
Anderson
Georsans
Wright
Captain Moody
Dart
Streak
Rome
St. Peter's
Solon
Hl. D. Thoreau
Texas
Chickamauga
Buffalo Society Item
Chicago Sun
Kansas City Journal
Ada
Canekdoten Magazyn
Karl
Mamma
The
Concord Philosophers
Concord
Emerson
Lawrenceville
Herald
Puck
T. P. Conant
Vold
Fred
Sally
Temple Bar
Jack Soquitur
Jim
Inquirer
She
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Irving
Manitoba
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