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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
7
A Confederate officer from Maryland infiltrates Union lines as a spy and double agent. Captured while serving the Confederacy, he is condemned as a deserter by Union authorities but ultimately faces execution by firing squad after his true allegiance and wartime exploits are revealed.
Poem recalling a fields of past battles with scent of roses and wind in corn. It contemplates faded echoes of war and unmarked graves, ending with melancholy reflections on absent loved ones and returning feet.
A memorial poem honors the last survivors of the Civil War who gathered to honor a fallen comrade. It recalls their hair thinning, age worn features, and memories of 1863 as they march on toward rest beyond the river, urging recognition before the final veterans pass.
Julia Ward Howe recounts composing the Battle Hymn of the Republic during the Civil War. While visiting Washington with her husband and Rev. James Wreeman Clarke, she was inspired after a troops review and woke at four o clock to jot the lyrics, finishing them near dawn. The tale, told to Saturday Evening Post.
A growing national custom observes five minutes at noon on May 30 to honor fallen Civil War soldiers veterans public officials and citizens who helped keep the country united with a moment of memory and reflection.
The first memorial day in the north occurred in 1806 at Waterloo New York when General Murray led veterans to decorate graves. In 1867 TC Campbell of Cincinnati organized post marches to lay wreaths, and in 1868 following General Logan's call there was a general observance where Union soldiers were buried.
The article lists governors by state during the Civil War era, naming both Northern and Southern incumbents and noting border state governors. It includes Illinois Richard Yates and Richard J. Oglesby, Ohio William Dennison etc, and Confederate leaders like Alabama Andrew B. Moore and Florida Madison Perry, plus border states Kentucky Beriah Magoffin and Maryland Thomas H. Hicks.
A Rhode Island Civil War picket near Yorktown U S A declared a truce with a Confederate soldier. When asked his regiment the Yankee replied One Hundred and Fifth Rhode Island. The Confederate answered Seventeenth Georgia and rode off.
Extra Billy Smith, a Confederate general, was furious during a grueling march. After a long halt he warned his troops he would march the regiment off without them if they did not rise quickly.
Memorial Day tribute extols women nurses who served near armies and in field hospitals across the war. They faced wounds and chaos, endured hardship, and operated under male authority, earning lasting reverence as heroines.
The word Chickamauga is of Indian origin and a Cherokee name meaning the river of death. The stream earned its name from a village flood following a cloudburst that caused accidental drownings.
In verse a veteran speaker recalls a war and its scars. He notes men who bore the brunt, lost brothers and limbs, while over time both sides learned to call each other Old Vet. The poem emphasizes shared sacrifice and reconciliation.
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