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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1887
Page
3
A wounded veteran testifies in a grim, humorous reminiscence about Spottsylvania and prison, describing his service in the Tenth New Jersey and a heroic act saving Colonel Sweety. He recounts losing a leg in battle and his lifelong roaming, ending with a judge’s sentence to make his camp the best room in the judge’s home.
The account details the court martial of Private Charles Turpin for misbehavior before the enemy disobedience to orders conduct prejudicial to discipline and desertion. He was sentenced to be shot by musketry and executed at the Vicksburg Cotton Press with a full military ceremony and chaplain's involvement. The narrative reflects on military justice, mercy shown by Lincoln, and the harsh realities of war.
Telegraphers note how quiet men can be most disagreeable to work with and how mood shows in key usage. Alf Saville recalls a wartime Nashville Louisville line where a message cut in revealed a cautious operative who admitted he would have learned more if his mouth had stayed shut.
A firsthand Southern Soldier recounts the Charleston evacuation during February 1865. Fires destroy cotton depots and rice stores as explosions rock the Northeastern Railroad yard. Panic as civilians flee with plundered goods, and Confederate forces withdraw amid smoke and ruin.
An Illinois chaplain resting in Alabama consoles a widowed farm family about lasting peace and postwar unity from Maine to Texas and the Gulf to the lakes. The elderly woman, amid ecstasy, hails promised harmony and jokes about needing cathartic pills from Jayne's as she faints with joy.
Rev J M Coon uses Matthew nine to illustrate Jesus healing a paralytic and forgiving sins. The lesson stresses faith as the condition for blessing, the crowd and roof descent scene, and the response of those nearby including four carriers and the paralytic, with notes on blasphemy and Gergesa.
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