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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1887
Page
7
A veteran recalls bloody battles in the Wilderness with vivid imagery of bayonets and bursting muskets. The poem extols Union soldiers fighting amid smoke and destruction, ending with a chieftain’s shout and praise for priceless sacrifice in a wounded nation.
A vivid account of the July 1864 near fall of Washington with Early’s raid from the Shenandoah, Monocacy’s delaying battle, and the rapid Miraculous redeployment by Grant and Lincoln. The piece highlights the risk to the capital, the delayed intelligence, and the arrival of the Nineteenth and Sixth Corps to lift the siege.
The Sixth moved from Fort Stevens and fought the enemy in sight of the Capitol. Early retreated toward the Potomac the next day. The golden hour for attacking Washington had passed and the city was saved, never threatened again during the war.
General Thomas Jonathan Jackson born January 21 1824 at Clarksburg Virginia died May 10 1863 at Guinea Station near Fredericksburg He graduated West Point in 1846 served in Mexico and in the Seminole War He resigned in 1852 to teach at Virginia Military Academy He joined the Confederate army becoming a brigadier and later major general He earned the nickname Stonewall for his stand at Bull Run and led maneuvers in the Shenandoah Valley and actions with Lee including Cold Harbor Malvern Hill and Antietam He died from wounds after being shot by his own men near Chancellorsville Chicago Ledger
During a Civil War raid the Twenty-fifth Wisconsin and others moved through a dense swamp. Colonel Rusk ordered a small force to push the Confederates back. A sergeant, a Methodist minister, guided the men to protect a farm and prevent poultry theft, assuring the homeowner of safety.
James B Kimball, born 1856 in Salem Massachusetts, becomes Director of the Mint. A Harvard and Freiburg graduate, he earned a PhD at Gottingen in 1857 and served as Assistant Adjutant General in the Civil War on several generals staffs. He is a noted mining engineer and metallurgist and was president of the Everitt Iron Company.
The piece recalls early exaggeration in a soldier's career and includes comic remarks from recruits. A Indiana regiment near Indianapolis faced rumors that many letters for soldiers were detained at the post office and joked about sending them to the dead letter office.
In Brooklyn June 12 the Rev. T De Witt Talmage preaches on Acts vii and presents five scenes of Stephen: gazing into heaven, looking at Christ, stoned, dying prayer, and asleep. He urges believers to mirror Stephen’s gaze and trust in Jesus for the spirit’s reception and eternal rest.
A traveling salesman recounts cats in drug stores drinking valerian extract and acting drunken, a pair of hotel or billiard room cats that play one ball pool with swift teamwork, and a Treasury building cat burned in a fire after a dog encounter and a careless clerk incident.
A reader note recounts Mr J- seeking shelter in Georgia and a farmer timeworn by whisky. The owner’s blunt comment about the children’s care leads to a long list of names the mother gives, including Joseph Edward Malcolm Norton Gunter and Mary Josefine Rhody Catherine Lenjamine Frankline Palestine Gunter, as Harper's Editor's Drawer details.
Senator Woolson’s Memorial Day speech from Oskaloosa Iowa condemns poverty among Civil War veterans. He laments insufficient pension coverage, calls for an urgent pension law, and urges Congress to protect disabled soldiers from pauper institutions with timely, adequate care.
An editorial praising reform as a method for a clean governmental sweep under President Grover Cleveland. It argues reform removal of tax and post office officials produces a partisan realignment, noting extensive replacement of internal revenue collectors and postmasters, and predicts broad Democratic gains in various offices as the party consolidates control.
The Democratic Constitution of Atlanta denounces Phelps as the most ridiculous and unmitigated snob flunkey yet produced, arguing he reflects the administration and Cleveland bears responsibility for the disgrace. The piece labels the republic indisputably harmed by his posting abroad.
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