A Daring Confederate Rider at Sailor's Creek
An eyewitness account recalls a Confederate officer escaping Federal lines at Sailor's Creek near Prince Edward County Virginia. The rider, identified soon after as General James A Walker of the Stonewall Brigade, clears the stream and rides into the Confederate ranks as a Union volley rings out.
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Sailor's Creek
Prince Edward County
Richmond and
Danville
Sol
Janes
Stonewall Brigade
Puiladklouia Times
Confederate Richmond Howitzer Battalion Captain Chosen
Judge Ceorge E Mann recounts how the Second Company of the Richmond Howitzer battalion kept officers scarce with privates preferring service. First captain George W Rand tek later secretary of war of the Confederate states. John Thompson Brew became colonel of artillery. Unable to fill captaincy, another company had to supply a captain from Galveston News.
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Ceorge E. Mann
Richmond Howitzer
George W. Rand Tek
Confederate States
John Thompson Brew
Capany
Galveston
Miraculous trough found in Tickton village church
A Yorkshire farmer’s unusual drinking trough, once believed lost, was found to be a font from Tickton church. An antiquary confirmed the trough’s historic origin and it has been recovered and replaced in the village.
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Bates
Lier
Columbia
Fea
Cowlitz
Boas
Jobin Ly Beers
Cesta
Lewis County
Tickton
Yorkshire
London riot over 1667 run on goldsmiths and bankers
A run on Lombard Street lenders in London 1667 triggered a crowd of creditors and rioting on the street. Bankers faced mob violence with executions at their doors before authorities restored order and claims of swindle subsided.
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London
Lombard Street
Healthful tonic promises to guard against consumption
An early 20th century advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a preventive against wasting diseases. It claims the tonic strengthens digestion, blood formation, and nerve power, purges bilious poisons, replaces worn tissue with muscle, and halts consumption if used regularly. Dr. Pierce, based in Buffalo, offers free mail consultations.
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Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Budalo
N.Y
Pierce
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