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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1887
Page
7
A wartime reminiscence by JOHN DIXBY recounts Confederate and Union memories from Manassas to Virginia, blending hardship, humor, and a soldier’s evolving view. The piece highlights shared ordeal, lingering feuds, and a caution about glorifying past conflicts.
James Franklin Fitts recalls the April 1865 unfolding events from Summit Point to Washington. He describes veterans’ sorrow after Lincolns assassination, the funeral train, and the division’s rapid march to the capital where they set picket duty between Fort Saratoga and Fort Stevens, sharing the mood and scenes of that pivotal moment.
A vivid reminiscence describes the postwar Washington spectacle with fortifications and a two day grand review. Soldiers, civilians, and veterans fill the capital as hundreds of thousands watch, with a dramatic anecdote of a veteran’s defiant one liner to a pushy suitor and Mouser of the Fourth Ohio’s bold raid on Confederate cavalry.
In summer 1862 at a camp near Helena Arkansas, a Confederate flag of truce team brought a wagon and money to buy provisions. Union scouts exposed the plunder, troops overturned the wagon, drilled, and forced the Johnnies to flee, shielding their loot. Field note by H. C. Craver.
Paul Rives of the twenty third North Carolina and J F Jones of the Twelfth Massachusetts met at a reunion and recognized each other as the two men involved in the Civil War injury incident. Rives recalled losing his arm at the spot while Jones showed the wartime cheek wound. The two confirmed their shared battlefield link amid surprised reminiscence.
A travel precaution extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for invalids on steamboats and trains to prevent or cure waves of nausea caused by transit. It claims superiority over unmedicated stimulants and says the tonic relieves seasickness brackish water effects, supports digestion, and counters malaria's aerial poison, with benefits to the kidneys and rheumatic symptoms.
English scholar Mr. Cuzon visited a Cairo near monastery library with about fifty Abyssinian manuscripts. The room 26 by 20 feet held red leather bound books on pegs three or four per peg, strapped for shoulder carrying. The monks’ collection, though part of Abyssinia literature under one hundred volumes, was prized.
The poem recalls the illness and repulsion of a sickroom, contrasting the old medicine spoon with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets described as small sugar coated and effective. A St. Louis man dies of heart disease while sawing wood, while Chicago stories note wives typically handle such chores.
Sufferers from consumption scrofula bronchitis and general debility will try Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil with hypophosphites for immediate relief and lasting benefit The Medical Profession calls it a remedy of great value and highly palatable A testimonial from W A Hulbert M D notes gratifying results in children Also a remark warns drug store patrons using whisky as medicine leads to reddened noses and a sales pitch for Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffener
Esther defies friends warning that her fiancé Fred is a fickle flirt and marries him. Her sunny temper health and tact turn him into a model husband, as he learns healthy living and vitality keep a marriage strong. An ad plug for Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription appears in the issue.
Merchants are invited to claim Offer No. 170 a three foot French glass oval-front show case. Address inquiries to R. W Tansinn & Co at 55 State Street Chicago.
A notice advertises Hunters Round-Trip tickets to Ellis Junction and other Wisconsin rivers at 12.50, and to Iron Mountain Michigan at 15.10, valid for return until December 31. Tickets available from W W Tabberner, General Agent, Milwaukee and Northern Railway, 55 Clark St., Chicago.
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