Bragg's Bold Attack at Stone River War Drama
The article recounts Bragg's frontal assault on Rousseau and Negley at Stone River, detailing brutal fighting, the grim “Hell's Half-Acre” defense, and Rosecrans's center failure. It highlights Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, and Georgia regiments, Loomis's batteries, and the costly Confederate pushes that culminated in a costly stalemate and ruined brigades.
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McCook
Rosecrans
Stone River
Sheridan
Thomas
Rousseau
Negley
Felds
Brage
Sherman
Stanley
Ohio
Miller
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Cedars
Hragg
Napoleon
Redericksburg
Spottsylvania
Ulot
Arkansas
Missouri
Louisiana
Caroline
Georgia
Loomis
Brekes
Guenther
Heaven
Jron
Slong
Hell's Half-Acre
Twenty-third Arkansas
Michigan
van Cleve
Palmer
Croft, Hazen
Grose
Haseau
Chalmer
Donelson
A Woman Hater Narrates a Global Quest for a Wife
A male narrator recounts a globe trotting search for a wife, detailing failed engagements with Edith, Ethel, Elfrida, Madelaine, Dulcinea, Lena, and Belle. He traces misadventures from Virginia tutors to Paris flirtations, Spanish jealousy, German homes, Italian intrigues, Turkish captivation, and American courtships, ending in lifelong misogyny after Belle’s demand to rule.
McLean’s House Witnessed End of Civil War
A Virginia man named McLean moved to Appomattox Court House to escape war. Four years later Lee’s army made its last stand there, and the surrender terms were signed in McLean’s house. He witnessed both the war’s start in Manassas and its conclusion.
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Charlottesville
N. C
McLean
Manassas
Virginia
Appomattox County
Appomattox Court House
Lee
A Man Who Was Not a Bowl
Louisville Courier-Journal reports Dr. B. Crocheron of Natchitoches La possesses one of three original copper coins offered to General George Washington for national currency. One side bears Unity of States and 1783 while the other shows a Washington medallion with Washington and Independence. Washington rejected the coin saying the country belonged to the people.
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Louisville
Washington
Veteran recalls old times at sham battle
A veteran questions a comrade after a Thursday sham battle. He notes the absence of dead and wounded, nearby generals, mud holes, and harsh provisions, saying old times brought hard reports and marches that cannot return. The exchange laments lost harsh, dramatic days.
An Humble Worshipper Sees Rest In Afterlife Love
A frail old parishioner, seated far from the pulpit, trails a lifetimes of faith as memories rise with church ritual. The light through stained glass, a lost love in a churchyard, and a longing to join heaven’s chorus define her quiet final vigil in a grand city church.
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David
Heaven
Sexton
Odd Fashions in the Patent Medicine Trade Explored
A New York apothecary describes how patent medicines flood shops with flashy cures and dubious claims. He warns that nongraduated proprietors sell dangerous stock, while readers learn how bottles with high prices and wild names proliferate, aided by heavy advertising and a vast inventory of 5000 articles.
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America
New York Times
New York
Apothecary
College of Pharmacy
Blank
July Scenes and Mixed Verses From a 19th Century Page
A collage of poetic fragments and prose items, including Holmes verses on July and vanished voices, interwoven with humorous and nostalgic pieces from Burlington Hawkeye style columns. The jumble features memories of childhood, campaign satire, a mock platform critique, a dramatic court scene, and funeral decor ideas.
Quiet Day at Cote Brillant Race Course
A calm scene at the Cote Brillante Race Course with horses cooled by blankets and exercise amid aromas of fried bacon. The atmosphere fills with music from darkles singing ballads while a swarthy Kentucky exile, a Zulu prince, and lemon-hued youths contribute voices to a curious, vibrant tableau.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Cote Brilliante
Kentucky
Carl Formes
A Fish With Four Feet in a Denver Drug Store
Jones and Michael exhibit a Mexican axolotl found in an irrigating ditch near Gelden. The six inch creature has a eel like tail a catfish like head four alligator like legs and side fins. It is native to Mexico and its poisonous bite is noted. It feeds on worms and flies and is reportedly eaten by Mexicans from a lake near Mexico City.
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Jones & Michael
Gelden
Mexico
Colorado
City of
Rag-Pickers' Association Formed in St Louis
Forty rag-pickers in St Louis form an association. The president states the group aims to show rag-pickers can be gentlemen at all times, while noting a by-law allowing expulsion for any member found guilty of crimes with no debate.
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Anow
San Francisco Chronicle
Palace Hotel
Griselda
Baroness Burdett- Coutts
San Francisco
Ulysses
Edith
Elfrida
Cavens
Paris
Madelaine Mardinot
Madelaine
Mademoiselle
Beau Sabreur
Spain
Valladolid
Dulcinea
City
Jennie Cramer
Gabriel
Christendom
St. Louis
The Royal German Baby
A San Francisco Chronicle note recalls guard rituals for royalty at guard-houses where soldiers salute and drum on royal arrivals. It recounts a Crown Prince nurse walking with a royal infant who, amid sand play, causes a guard to assemble and strike a drum, a comical clash of ceremony and childhood instinct.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Chicago
Remarkable spoon headed mullet found on line in Maryland
A Harford county man, George W Walker, scooped a line and a spoon headed mullet became snagged. a leather strap around its body with a short cord tied behind the dorsal fin mystifies researchers. Edward Willis of Sudbury keeps a seven toed cat nursing seven toed kittens, two red squirrels, a ferret and a raccoon, all living together. the creatures frolic and nap with the cat, welcoming visitors.
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Baltimore American
George W. Walker
Harford County
Edward Willis
Sudbury
Walking-stick gallery piece from Colonel Holland’s orchard
Bonham News reports a remarkable walking-stick crafted in Missouri from an apple-tree limb and carved with many symbols including the Bible, gavel, all-seeing eye, tools, animals, and the colonel’s engraved name, exhibited to Colonel R. W. Holland yesterday.
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Bonham News
R. W. Holland
Missouri
Peter Dia. Sermon Prompted Laughing Parishioners
In a Newburyport Herald note from yesterday in a hot church a minister began his sermon with the text And Peter stood by the fire and warmed himself. The broad smile it drew lit up the congregants as they listened to the sermon.
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Newburyport Herald
Peter
Young Bohemian Traveler Grows Up On The Road
A ten year old Eden youth has journeyed across thirteen U S states and eight major cities, visited three Canadian metropolises, crossed nine large rivers, and voyaged the Atlantic from Portland to Boston through Long Island Sound to New York, then on to Battle Creek.
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Eden
United States
Canada
Atlantic Ocean
Portland
Boston
Long Island Sound
New York
Battle Creek
Mion
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