Army Anecdotes of War Time Feasts and Fights
War veterans recall lean rations and rich rewards as they chase stories of Hood, Nashville, and bushwhackers. A mule caravan scavenges cabins for pork, geese, and sorghum molasses while evading guards and guerrillas. A Southern youth saves a wounded Union soldier and later meets him at a reunion, completing a poignant crossbody of former foes.
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Hood
Nashville
Alabama
Wm. M. Cragin
Linois
Honest John
Crogin
Sam
E. M. Yone
Soldier aided by Confederate boy on a dusty road
A wounded Union soldier, left for dead after Antietam, stumbles toward Union lines with one arm gone and tears of fear, pain, and longing for home. A teen Confederate boy on horseback stops, shows pity, and splashes water from his hat to revive the man.
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Antietam
Yank
Soldier humor and horse prank at Duck River camp
In Tennessee near Duck River, Company D of the Thirty-first Wisconsin mocks a mutinous foot soldier by mounting a gentle yearling jackass as the “boss sojer.” The prank sparks uproar in camp, recalling broader wartime wishes for cavalry life and the narrator’s reluctant admiration for mounted travel.
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Thirty-first
Wisconsin
Erin
Sojer
Sofer
Duck River Bridge
Watruse
Tennessee
Nashville & Chattanooga
Baalam
Company Street
Milwaukee
Hoss Sojer
The Laurel Hill Fight Described In Heroic Terms
An 1864 May account from Laurel Flat Virginia recounts a Civil War assault near the old brigade. Musketry and artillery rattle as a brave Union soldier is wounded while begging for aid, a stretcher is found, and a surgeon attends to the dying man who whispers for country and family before death.
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Porter
Pope
Fifth
Jackson
Bangutrset
Joe Hooker
Hooker
Confederacy
Sherman
Meade
Grant
Stanton
Lee
Gettysburg
Hancock
Henry J. Hunt
Hunt
Congress
Chester Arthur
Washington
Wellington
Longstreet
Gordon
Forrest
Laurel Flat
Virginia
Perha
Jim
Fairfield
Mighty Hunters Before the Lord Sermon on Gospel Archery
Dr. Talmage likens Christian life to hunting for souls, urging believers to become skilled archers of the gospel. He praises courage, personal consecration, and active outreach, calling for believers to enter unfrequented places to convert the lost and to bring souls into the church ready for salvation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Talmage
Pollus
Achilles
Diomedes
Nimrod
Jesus
Christ
Jesus Christ
Truman Osborne
Mr. Talmage
de Witt
Agincourt
Solway Moss
Neville’s Cross
Paul
Felix
Luther
Galilean
Earl of Pembroke
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Icicles
Theodore Parker
Kenan
Thomas Carlyle
London
Huxleys
Spencers
Pennsylvania
Raquette Lake
Adirondacks
California
Schermerhorn Street
Saranac
Big Tupper’s Lake
Aloon
Brooklyn
Niagara
Thyatira
Corinth
Laodicea
du Chailly
Livingstone
Church of God
Heidelberg
Germany
Lucknow
India
Thorvaldsen
Mithridates
Domitian
God
Screen Lake
Earth
Heaven
Charlemagne
Roncesvalles
Roland
Hell
Dr. Prime
Curious Facts From A Bygone Era Showcases Oddities And Tales
A collection of unusual notes tells of Japan lacking wine and brandy manufacture, CryLon as a sole English colony aiding the imperial navy, thousands of US pensioners in Germany, open slave trade on Madagascar, a La Tour village depopulation due to crime, a Danish army with noses as proof of character, Danie Minter’s long lineage, a Florida family's unusually tall young boys, and wild geese drawn to Heela coke ovens during a storm with several birds captured.
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Japan
CryLon
Imperial Navy
United States
Germany
Madagascar
la Tour
Ardeche
France
Tur
Denmark
Danie Minter
Chequert Township
Iowa
Florida
Gainesville
Heela
The Sunday School Matthew study by Rev. J. M. Coon
This Chicago Standard lesson surveys Matthew chapter 2 among many notes. It covers authorship, purpose for Jews, date, key word fulfilled, outline, and reasons for four gospels. Bethlehem birth context and Rome Herod era frame the Christ narrative.
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Chicago Standard
J. M. Coon
B.C
Bethlehem
Matthew
Schaff
Palestine
God
Jesus
W. F. Crafts
Christ
Judah
David
Abraham
John
Herod
Gennesaret
Jerusalem
Gregory
Ephrata
Judea
Alile Wash
Cook
Rome
Augustus
Greece
Herod the Great
Great Britain
At the Lending Library Not In Yet for Three Musketeers
A young lady asks for the Three Musketeers at a lending library. The shopman replies they are not in at present. She laments the situation and asks to borrow at least one, reflecting a brief, everyday exchange captured in a German newspaper fragment.
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Magdeburger Zeitung
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Fancy
Vandalia, Mo
Michael Griffin
Eau Claire
Lntece E
Jonathan Bowman
Kilbourn City
Grand Army
Grand Army of the Republic
Prince
Boston
Meta Maple
Chicago Ledger
Sharron O'Brien
T. de Witt Talmage
Tabernacle
Egypt
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