Clinchfield Route Through Train Service Daily
Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio Railway offers a daily through train between Dante Virginia and Spartanburg South Carolina with connections to North East West and South. Train times may vary without notice and passengers should contact local agents or Charles Mandel and J J Campion for definite information.
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Dante
Spartanburg
D. C
Carolina, Clinchfeld
Ohio Ry
Clinchfield
Lee Surrender Through a North Carolina Cavalryman's Eyes
A Confederate Cavalryman from a North Carolina regiment recalls Lee's surrender. He describes initial fear at enlistment, gradual courage, and improving shooting as he recounts experiences from the war in the narrator GB Sutherland's recollection.
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North Carolina Regiment of Cavalry
Lee
Sutherland
Remembrance of Grant and Lee Surrender in Civil War
A veteran recalls the first battle fear, the April 1865 surrender at Appomattox, and General Grant's humane gesture of passes home. He reflects on wartime suffering, fears of imprisonment, and gratitude for Grant's generosity as he and comrades returned to their families after siege and hardship.
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Appomattox
Lee
Grant
Ife
General Grant
Force of a Twelveinch Gun
The projection of the 124inch gun penetrates 22 inches of armor plate and has pierced a 20 foot concrete wall heavily reinforced with steel beams.
Bravest and Coolest Soldier In Five Years Of Civil War
A Los Angeles Times excerpt recalls Toane B. Hardy, a nineteen year old Santa Barbara resident, hailed as the bravest act seen in five years of Civil War service. Gen Sherman’s 1865 Carolinas campaign arrived at Cheraw, the 17th Corps and the 64th Illinois Haola skirmishers led the advance toward the bridge over the Pee Dee river, fighting through fleeing Confederate cavalry to reach the western end.
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Toane B. Hardy
Santa Harbara
Sherman
Om bin
Carolinas
Cheraw
Great
Pedeo River
Seventeenth Corps
IL Haola
J. 8. Reynolds
Los Angeles Times
Midnight river crossing at burning bridge battle report
The narrative describes a Civil War river crossing under fire. Sharpshooters kept the enemy away as pioneers crossed to extinguish the blaze. A lone infantry unit fired from the opposite bank until midnight. Hardy recounts crawling along the bridge to flank the enemy and lay down steady fire as the fight ebbed and flowed into the early hours.
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Or Me
Young Hardy
Robs
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SMITH
Parks CO
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Tennessee
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New York City
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Wels
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Brisa Telephone Co
Bristol, Tennessee
Toan
Ac B. Hardy
Brading-Marshall Lumber CO
Sparger Mills Co
Johnson City Steam Laundry
J. E Crouch
Telepiene
Harry W. Cease
Kress Bidy
Carter Addition
Johnson City
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Ofice
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Silver
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Surrow Building
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J. R. Gardner Arronnay
Law Land M. Office
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Pension Claima
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Tohpeon Ole
Cet
Cox & Sells
Arrowways Ar Law and
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Sam W. Puck
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