Political Turmoil and Postwar Reconciliation in North Carolina
The piece surveys Democratic and Republican strife in the postwar South, noting factions opposing Bourbon Democracy, anti prohibition movements, and shifts toward reconciliation. It discusses Grant’s death and cross‑sectional mourning, praises restored harmony, and highlights evolving political alignments including nominations in Virginia and local responses to economic issues and bank charters.
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Democratic Party
North Carolina
Republican Party
Jacksonian
Democracy
Inge
Northina
Despond
Sakeo
Grant
Gen Fitzhugh Lee Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Sketch
A biographical sketch of Gen Fitzhugh Lee the Democratic nominee for Virginia governor. Born Clermont Fairfax County November 19 1835 he served in the Confederate forces and rose to the Fifth Cavalry. His early life includes West Point graduation in 1856 and wartime service shaping his later political path.
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Niagara
General Lee
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Clermont
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Rand
Lee
Weat
Fifth Cavalry
Albert Sidoes Johnson
Robert E. Lee
Earl van Dorn
George H. Thomas
Wm. J. Hardee
John B. Hood
Sai Lee
West Point
Virginia
Beauregard
Manassas
Winches
Yorktown
Cleveland
Democras
Fford
Notable Confederate Cavalry Leader and 19th Century Tobacco Curing
Fragmented excerpt recalls Gen Lee as a famed Confederate cavalry commander and notes his roles from Manassas to West Point board appointment. It also references postwar life, agriculture, and a tobacco curing guide offering methods, costs, and testimonials from 1885.
Oak Ridge Institute First-Class Might School Invention
Ernest Knabe Jr son of a piano maker has devised a reciprocating electric magnetic motor that provides lateral motion for small machinery instead of rotation, an inventive breakthrough from Oak Ridge Institute noted as a first-class project.
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Oak Ridge Institute
Ernest Knabe, Jr
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