Siege of Corinth and evacuation tricks amid Union siege
The article portrays Corinth as a war graveyard after Beauregard and Halleck maneuver. It details evacuation tactics, Confederate deception with a balloon and signals, and Halleck’s costly siege plan, contrasting Beauregard’s orderly retreat with Union pretensions. It also notes Pope’s dubious claims and Summer’s senate exit anecdote.
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Corinth
Shiloh
Beauregard
Halleck
Grant
Bhiloh
Hon
Tennessee River
Haklock
Pope
Tupelo
Gratt
Sherman
Thomas
Corn Shucking Song in Dialect Reflects Slavery Era
A fragmentary dialect piece describes black laborers harvesting corn with shucks and jugs while a singer chants defiance and mockery. The language evokes plantation era imagery with lines about corn, rakes, and jurangi as a performer urges triumph over an opposing squad.
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Guinea
Jurangi
Old Point Comfort markets and temperance notes collide
A vivid scene at Old Point Comfort shows daily trade in peas, strawberries, crabs, and other produce fueling Baltimore and Washington markets with ships and carts arriving afternoonly. the piece shifts to Robert Laird Collier on England's temperance revolution, noting blue ribbons, local option, Sunday closing, and declining drunkenness, alongside a brief 1880 census debt snapshot.
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Cor
Chicago Times
Virginna
Thad
Old Point Comfort
Virginia
Peggy
Baltimore
Washington
Spots and Taylors
York River
Hampton Creek
Jamey River
Old Point
Great Garden
Norfolk
Hampton
Robert Laird Collier
England
Lords
House of Commons
William Lawson
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
Germany
France
London
Liverpool
Society
Great Britain
Doing the Fair Thing in Detroit Court
A Detroit leading case features Sidney Armstrong Johnson pleading drunkenness and a cheeky claim about a new wringer device. He offers to take the agency for the invention to clear cash, while the judge suspends sentence and warns him to stay away. The page also recounts a Mobile secession proclamation and a London Times note on a massive elephant arriving in Liverpool.
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Detroit Free Press
Sidney Armstrong Johnson
Sidney
Detroit
Mr. Johnson
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Werth
Beaurigard
Ciuregard
Adust
Tuscumbia
Sumner
Senate
Boston Transcript
Hayden
United States Senate
Charles Summer
Mr. Sumner
New York
Fortress Monroe
Brooklyn Bridge
United States
Total
Mobile
Ala
Cade Godbold
Montgomery
Alabama
The
Union
Court of the United States For
Southern District of
London Times
Vonduara
J. B. Morrow
Cheyenne
Wyo
Thomas & Page
P.oaddime
Range
Lodges Creek
Wyn
Powder River Cattle Com
Powder River
Brands
Tongue River
Rawhide Branch
Powder River Cattle Co
Rawhide, Wyoming
M. HE
Range Pole
Horse Creeks
North Park
Plunkett, Roche & CO
P. O
Johnson Co
John Donoughue
Foreman
Ostila
Sturgis, Goodell & CO
H.ford
P.O
Cheyenne, Wyo
Range, Lance and
Old Woman Creeks
Lemurds Smith, Jr
Futterman
Wyoming
Lightning Creeks
North Vlatte River
Amn
Mark ,Aw
J M
Increase
Sturgis & Lane
Brand
Custer City
Dakota
Ranges
Fox and Horse Creeks
Goshen Hole
Cheyenne River
Q . Band
Sturgis, Goodell
Lane
Postoffice
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Mac
Wwe
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