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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1887
Page
7
A vivid wartime tableau frames heavy combat with exploding ordnance and linked bayonet clashes. Reports describe fierce engagements across strategic fronts as troops push, fight, and endure under bombardment amid shifting line positions and Allied offensives.
A dated poem reflects on war’s vast gulf between heaven and hell. The speaker recalls historic battles from Saladin to Gettysburg, envisioning epic clashes that fade as a current page reveals living, present-day deeds surpassing those visions. The poem ties war’s memory to contemporary conflict and calls on Michael the archangel amid celestial imagery.
A narrative sketches Jonah a Black plantation servant who joined General Grant’s army in 1864. He proves loyal, witty, fearless, and practical, guiding the Captain’s affairs, cooking, and foraging through Maryland and Shenandoah campaigns, until his capture near Winchester. His tale ends with his unknown fate after a Mosby raid.
Stonewall Jackson rode with his staff to reconnoiter and cut off Hooker. Mistaking them for the enemy, Union fire wounded Jackson in the hand and arm. He was aided to a litter as artillery battered the forest, and General Pender feared retreat as the troops' lines broke.
General Jackson urged to hold ground as Confederate forces clash. He is wounded and his left arm amputated after midnight. Lee laments the loss, saying Jackson was his right arm. The account from St. Nicholas recounts the intimate bond between Lee and his trusted lieutenant.
An account recalls Sumner’s anger at missing muskets during the Seven Days retreat. An Eighty-eighth officer shows the pile, then Morgan battles Wolford’s cavlary at Camp Hill, Morgan shoots Wolford and captures Wolford. The incident boosts Irish brigade morale as Wolford survives.
Poem reveres a nation's bridge during a storm at sea and mourns a pilot killed at the helm. The speaker praises the captain's steadfast grip, courage, and leadership as the nation endures peril and reaches a somber dawn. The piece honors enduring loyalty, sacrifice, and maritime imagery in a historical Chicago Ledger voice.
The Union army united diverse races and origins into a disciplined force. It included native Americans from various regions and Europeans and other groups from Maine to Texas. The text notes how people from England, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Holland, Wales, Scotland, and France served together, sometimes in the same regiment or company, showcasing the republican system's blending power despite varied backgrounds.
A Columbia South Carolina woman fled the Sherman raid and searched the ashes for memory. She found a singed scrap of John Howard Payne's Home Sweet Home, with the intact phrase There is no place like home, conveying a poignant link to happier days.
Dyspeptics are urged to start and persist with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a pure stomachic, to remove obstinate dyspepsia. Readers should tailor diet to individual digestion, avoid hard to digest foods, and observe bodily responses. Biliousness constipation heartburn wind sour eructations and mental despondency are treated by the bitters.
An Omaha World article extols native American farmers for intellect, citing land ownership, winter study habits, and successful business leaders as proof. It contrasts farmers’ disciplined evenings with city dwellers’ fashionable amusements and includes a satirical exchange about a book agent and a private lunatic asylum.
A damaged notice promotes J Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a nervine tonic for women suffering dragging-down pains nausea and weakness. It claims the remedy restores strength health and amiability by self treatment with the product sold by druggists.
An Ohio man who inherited 700000 from his father saw immediate court actions by his brothers sisters and cousins. They allege a triple wife, heavy debt to relatives, dishonest acquisition of the fortune, government defaulter status, repeated insanity, and a forged will. The will’s validity is challenged while the heir reportedly guards a remaining sum by leaving it on the doorstep at night hoping for theft.
An advertisement heavy column extols Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery for cleansing the life current and curing chronic ailments. It quotes testimonials from Owensville Ohio and others about indigestion dullness and coughs. It also notes other ads and lines about cod liver oil emulsion Bile Beans and Lyon s Heel Stiffeners with brief endorsements.
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