Spy's Bold Ride Behind Union Lines Recalls Civil War Tales
Excerpt from a Detroit Free Press piece recounts a Confederate spy’s brawl inside Union lines near Winchester. The narrator, in Quaker disguise, overpowered a sentry, bound him, and slipped away to report on Sheridan Early forces. A veteran meeting with Longstreet and reflections on war conclude this Atlanta Cor. NYT dispatch.
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Sheridan
Early
Winchester
Ohio
Michigan
Richmond
Thad
Berryville
Jim
Detroit Free Press
Pardon Worsley Daring Union Spy of Shenandoah Dies
Pardon Worsley known as the Union Spy of the Shenandoah died at his Fosterbrook New York home aged sixty seven. He began as a Massachusetts merchant and raised a company of the Fourteenth Massachusetts Heavy Artillery at the war’s start. He aided blockade running investigations for General Butler and helped break the Baltimore to Washington system. He later spied for Mosby, survived a pistol threat, and aided Federal surrounds of Mosby’s quarters. He commanded detectives at Lincoln’s assassination and retired after Booth’s death. For ten years he ran a park restaurant in the Bradford oil field.
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Pardon Worsley
Fosterbrook
N. Y
Massachusetts
Fourteenth
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
B. F E. Butler
United States
C. C. Augur
Worsley
Baltimore
Washington
Mosby
General Augur
Boston
Helen Isabel Francis
Virginia
Lee
Lincoln Worsley
Booth
Bradford Oil Field
Cor. N. Y. Sun
Thoughtful Rat Guards Water From Poison in Yard
An aged rat in a backyard rat hole tests a water pan before allowing five half grown offspring to drink. The mother sniffs and samples the water then signals her young to drink, having learned to avoid poison from prior experience.
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Anmiert
Confederate Note Repaid After Many Years At Bangor
A Civil War era note from Lt. Wi. Washburne of the Fifth Mass. repaid decades later to H. I. Burbank of Saco. Washburne, paroled from Charlotte and exchanged at Annapolis, became blind and poor yet sent fifty dollar Confederate notes to prisoners in Columbia Prison to buy rations. the note was finally paid in full, revealing a tale of loss and memory.
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H. I. Burbank
Saco
Greenville
8. C
Burbank
Columbia Prison
Confederacy
Wi. Washburne
Fifth Mass
Washburne
United States
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Boston
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N. C
Annapolis
Bangor
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Visit to General Longstreet’s quiet mountain home in Georgia
A visitor recalls arriving at Longstreet’s summitside home in northern Georgia. The scene overlooks the Chattahoochee valley with Blue Ridge visible. After knocking and a snoring awakening, the veteran appears aged yet poised as his old war horse returns down the hall.
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Georgia
James Longstreet
Noth Georgia
Chattahoochee
Longstreet
Blue Ridge Mountains
Lee
English Etiquette Tale Leads to Royal Seating Gaffe
Fragmented reminiscence from Dider Dumas about an 1800s dinner with Victor Hugo Duke of Decazes and Lord Palmerston. The anecdote centers on a missing introduction and a late seating routine that ends with a royal misplacement and a pointed remark on a once in lifetime honor.
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Victor Hugo
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Lady Palmerston
Decazes
Lord Palmerston
Alexander Dumas
Harvest Excursions To Midwest Rail Points
The Burlington Route and Chicago & North Western Railway offer three Harvest Excursions to Dakota Nebraska Wyoming Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota with round trip fares. Tickets go on sale August 30 September 20 and October 11 and are valid for return within thirty days. Contact local ticket agents or Ef P. Wilson Chicago for details.
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Gen
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Rock Island Trains
United States
Canada
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Soap and Dye Advert Set Sparks for Glamour
Local trade card touts Glenn's Sulphur Soap making fans Fannics and Cuticles appear marvelously white. Also promotes Hill's Hair Dye available in Black or Brown for five cents.
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Hill
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