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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1888
Page
11
Desperate Confederate Prize Raid Near Gulf Coast
In a dusk maneuver the Confederate cutter Lark captured a US lighthouse schooner near Ship Island, burned both vessels, and carried off crew and prisoners toward Fort Morgan. The pursuit by a US gunboat failed as the Lark reached the Mississippi Sound shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lark
Jefferson
Gulf
Mobile Bay
Grant
Mississippi City
Cat Island
Cat
Chandeleur Islands
Lakes
New Orleans
Ship Island
United States
Fort Morgan
Mississippi Sound
Confederate Clothing Heist in 1861 Lone Jack
Narrator recounts a 1861 clash in Lone Jack Missouri when Confederate Captain Carlyle sought clothing for his troops. William R. Trundle and the narrator hid $1500 worth of dry goods in a log house to protect supplies, moving stock to Pleasant Hill for safekeeping before Carlyle’s three o clock visit to the store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will
Uncle Will
Lone Jack
Missouri
Arkansas
William R. Trundle
Carlyle
Trundle
Pleasant Hill
Jesse Howard
Howard
Yankees and Captain Clash Over Soda in Lone Jack Store
A Captain demanded soda in a Lone Jack shop, paid a quarter, and warned of returning for goods. Marines later recited fear of raiders as General Jim Lane's troops moved through town and a stockpile was moved from Lone Jack to Clinton, Missouri.
Resurrection of a Porker and a Soldier’s Reverence
In 1862 at Farmington Mississippi Brigadier General Palmer found Company I twenty seventh Illinois Volunteers skinning a two hundred pound pig. He ordered a burial with full honors and the men formed a funeral procession. The scene ended with the soldiers reflecting on resurrection and their duty, the general and staff departing as the odor of pork lingered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arly
Farmington
Corinth
Miss
Palmer
Militia Strength and Funding Grow Under War Department Plan
The House reports territorial militia totals at 195 000 and state totals at 592. grand total 7 606 592. The War Department plans closer militia care in future war protection. Annual militia maintenance funding rises from 200 000 to 400 000, with 10 000 more organized militiamen and nearly a million more unorganized in the year. About 4 000 militiamen are fully organized, with over 7 000 000 available for service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leteer
Secretary of War
House of Representatives
Ee War Department
Civil War Regiment Foraging Order Brings Tense Moment
In Kentucky during the fall campaign a regimentometer… The incident describes Lieutenant F who with three soldiers spotted in a potato patch. One man fired at the lieutenant and was killed. The colonel questioned the lieutenant about stabbing the man, then rode away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Dano, Co
Second Kentucky Infantry
Confederate Officer Urges Charge Amid Reluctant Troops
A chronicle recalls a gallant Confederate officer during a sudden Confederate assault on a Yankee battery. He halted the advance, cried out Why do you fellows fear death, and urged his regiment to go on, asking if they expected to live forever.
Quips and Crackers from Various Sides Reach the Press
A collage of wits and cartoons from multiple papers recounts barbs about back seats and clerks, a fisherman’s bite at river mouths, tramps at Thanksgiving, and editor humor. Jokes touch on wives of great men, Indian chiefs, and rogue police misfires, with sly lines about time and cost-cutting fashions.
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Boston Bulletin
Tur
Lowell
Puck
Apollo
Apolinaris
Texas
Mary
Texas Siftings
Chicago
Teras Siftings
Comstock
Heaven
St. Peter
Brown
Jones
Chinaman
John
Brooklyn
Mammoth Cave
Herr Most
Burlington Free Press
Meeting of Foreign Delegates and Sitting Bull Debate
A reporter questions Sitting Bull about the International Arbitration Congress. He jokes of collecting hair curiosities and notes awaiting foreign representatives as his young men report a German accent. The Zeitung’s Ludwig Aufschesker is barely visible in the canyon. Burdette, a granddaughter of Charles Dickens, has a thriving typing business. Angry words worsen tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Arbitration Congress
Sitting Bull
Foreign Department
Ludwig Aufschesker
The
Zeitung
Burdette
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