Black Brigade color bearer as hero at Port Hudson
Chicago Ledger recounts a dramatic Civil War scene where a color bearer of a colored regiment vows to bear the flag in honor or die trying. The piece links his pledge to centuries of bondage and the fight for freedom amid the Port Hudson assault and a later Mexican border flare up with Governor Albino Lopez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Hudson
Ebon
Black Brigade
Hal
Chicago Ledger
Texas
Rio Grande
Tamaulipas
Etamered
Brownsville
Albino Lopez
General Bee
Mexico
Matamoros
United States
Pierce
Antonio Zapata
Lopez
Talleyrand
Mexcan
Confederacy
Bee
Stahl
Cox
Ohio
Hell
Turbulent border era linked to Bee Lopez and Davis incidents
The document recounts General Bee appealing to Governor Lopez to arrest Captain Sanders for stealing regimental funds and fleeing across the river. It details Lopez and Bee actions surrounding the 1863 Matamoras clashes, Davis kidnapping and execution, and later notes on General Bee’s life, the Pickett papers, and a dramatic Civil War battle memory ending with a heroic escape story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bee
Lopez
Sanders
Matamoras
General Bee
Washington
Brownsville
Custom House
Chilton
Edmund J. Davis
Montgomery
Davis
Texas
Coke
Grant
Louisiana
Tamaulipas
Matamoros
Maximilian
Mexico
San Antonio
Colonel Davis
Mgr
John Hay
Lincoln
John G. Nicolay
Pickett
Confederacy
Marcus J. Wright
Treasury Department
State Department
Button Tale and Civil War Echoes Across Town
A bystander buys a relic button claimed to be shot from General Hancock's coat at Gettysburg. The tale expands into Civil War anecdotes and local memory, recounting Hood, Cleburne, and Schofield in battles near Franklin and Nashville, with mixed wonder and farce over a pawned keepsake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Hancock
Gettysburg
Hancock
Fellows
Relic
General Hanecock
Hood
Schofield
Nashville
Columbia
Franklin
Hod
Spring Hill
Cleburne
Chickamauga
Sam Jones
Adams
Cunningham
Nashville American
Removing a Serious Obstruction Gently
An 1850s style caution against explosive remedies for obstructions in the East River area and a promotion for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It argues against drastic purgation and praises gradual bowel and liver toning benefits from the tonic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hell Gate
East River
New York
Hostetter
Sioux chiefs visit and a negotiating scene with music
Mrs Hancock recalls a General inviting six Sioux chieftains to meet. She plays the se for them to aid negotiations. Beads robes blankets and ponies are offered for exchange of the big Captain's squaw and the music table. The chiefs depart in Indian attire after failed inducements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper’s Weekly
Memory of Early Days and Purgatives in a Nostalgic Note
A nostalgic ode contrasts childhood fear of harsh medicines like castor oil and Epsom salts with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. The piece then shifts to a scientific aside on iron sulphate as an antidote to plant fungi, mentioning potato disease and wheat mildew. It ends with ads for Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy, Scott's Emulsion, and Harvest Excursions by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Breckinridge
Stewart Robinson
Dr. Breckinridge
Tom Bullitt
Tom
Morgan
Dr. Pierce
Dr. Sage
Harvest
Darlington
Nebraska
Kansas
Minnesota
Dakota
Paul Morton
Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific R
Northwest
Rock Island
Joliet
Ottawa
la Salle
Peoria
Geneseo
Moline
Illinois
Davenport
Muscatine
Washington
Fairfield
Ottumwa
Oskaloosa
West Liberty
Iowa City
Des Moines
Indianola
Winterset
Atlantic Knoxville
Audubon
Harlan
Gay Centre
Council Blaffs
Iowa
Gallatin
Trenton
St. Joseph
Cameron Kansas City
Missouri
Leavenworth
Atchison
Albert Lea
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Watertown
Creat Rock Island
Impaaser EN
Missouri River
Cage
Interior Dakota
Seneca
Kankakee
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Lafayette
Council Bluffs
St. Ione Atchison
Kansas City
F. Asnuny Howes
M. F. Church
Silverton
N. J
Pierce
The Liver as Mainspring of Health in Old Advertising
The piece extols the liver as the body's mainspring and links its health to a range of diseases. It praises Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for cleansing the liver and preventing illness, then notes bold advertising specimens in the issue and mentions Prickly Ash Bitters. It closes with a barber anecdote and Piso's Cure for Consumption claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Parmelia Bampagee
Lock Lockport, N. Y
James L. Couny
Enq
Yucatan
Houston Minn
TuHenesa A. Cass
Springfield
Key
H. E. Massey
Montmorenet
8. C
Gouoen Medhcas
Erwand Newton
Harrowsmith
Ont
Vuleer
Issac FE. Downs
Offspring Valley
Rockland Co
P.O. Box
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
Mr. Downs
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J. P. Prickett
Artiil
Freedom
Romance In History
Providence
Fort Leavenworth
Arkansas
Canehill
Boston Mountain
Dilday
Joan B. Dintway
Tomasacks
Dade County
Scott
H Ave
W. A. Hulpert
M.D
Salisbury
R.W. Tansill & Co
Lyon
Lowell
Mass
H.M. Miura
Nancy
Wmff, Kidder & CO
John St
N.Y
Pacific
Pacific Manufacturing CO
ST. Louis
Ely
Haven
Piso
Sil ‘Ott Repeating
Newfrom
Guna
Hines
John P. Lovell
Kosten
Mus
Druggista
Williems
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Agrs
Toledo
Business College
Spencei
Clevelland
Fitzgerald & Powell
Aonce
Dre Thayer
Walton Ave
Fort Wayne
Ind
Pettit
Jones Asti
Jones OF
Binghamton
Binghamton, N
Frazer Axle
Frazer
Brewster Safety Rein Holder Co
Holly, Mich
Jay Bronson
Detroit
Wiscouvery
Mark Twain
Richart Proctor
W. W. Astor
Judah P. Benjamin
Dr. Minor
Columbia Law
Yale
University of Penn
Wellesley College
Prospectus Post Free
Loiselte
Fifth Ave
Sroselt
J. M. Barton
26Th Ward
Fis
A. J
St Louis
Rand
Mottat
Canada
R. R. Cable
E. ST. John
E. A. Holbrook
Gen'l Tkt
Pass, Agt
Many A. McClune
Columbus
Kans
Mia
Wazasa
Yorkshire
Cattaraugus Co
D. Lazanne
Eng
Decatur Street
New Orleans
Lacy
Toa M. Strone
Ainaworth
Democrat and Newa
Cambridge
Maryland
Ann Poole
Leonard Poole
Williamebury
Dorchester Co
Golden
Cal Discovery
Joseph F. McParland
Golden Medical Discovery
Kidder
Deed Omowo
I. S
A. P
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