Heroes of Washingtons Dark Days and District Volunteers
The article recounts the District of Columbia volunteers led by Capt. Smead and Gen. Stone who protected Washington in 1861. It notes their key actions safeguarding the capital, railways, bridges, and telegraph, enabling Union troops to reach Washington after the Baltimore blockade, and their later roles in Gettysburg and 1864 to defend the capital and support campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Press Association
Washington
Capital
Massachusetts
Baltimore
New York
Annapolis
Charlieston Harbor
Port Sumter
Lincoln
Sumter
Scott
Potomac
Charles P. Stone
District of Columbia
Annapolis Junction
Fles
Susquehanna
Maryland
John R. Smead
Second
United States Artillery
War Department
Congress
Smead
United States Service
Gen. Scott
State Department
W. W. Webb
St. Nicholas
Pennsylvania Avenue
Lee
Virginia
Buchanan
Washington Navy Yard
Prince” Maxruder
Ainnapolis
Columibia
Long Bridge
Alexandria
Sacred Soil
Stone
Rifles
Gettysburg
Eurly
Bull Run
McCook
W. ©. Stoddard
Alexander R. Shepherd
Louis D. Watkins
The
Capt. Smead
Second Bull Run
George L. Kilmer
Lone Star Size Compared to England and Massachusetts
Dr Barrows notes Texas is five times England and thirty four times Massachusetts in area. He feats the globe's 1.4 billion people could fit in Texas in five person families with half acre lots and still 70 million vacant family sites remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrows
Texas
England
Massachusetts
Globe
Blood Sarsaparilla and Health Potions Featured in Ads
An assortment of ads tout Bloods Sarsaparilla to restore strength after illnesses and expel blood poisons, Hood's Pills for digestion, Cubed Cough Cure for cough relief, Hot Springs Skin Soap claimed to prevent skin disorders, and Bradshaw Thoma as vendors. The note ends with a quip about ex Speaker Reed and fame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Bradshaw & Thoma
Mother and Child Cure Claims Across Advertisements
A collage of older drug advertisements cites Mother's Friend for confinement relief, Bradfield's Regulator for female diseases, Shiloh's medicines for cough and digestion, and Miles' nerve and liver pills. It mentions figures like Geo. D. Clarke and D. G. Higley, plus regional notes from Iowa and Louisiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dock Miles
Lincoln Parish
Geo. D. Clarke
Patent Worm Remedy Promises Quick Health Power
Guaranteed to completely remove all worms from either children or grown people. If your child is cross peevish or sickly or if you yourself feel bad try them and good health will quickly follow. They eradicate the germs of disease increase the appetite improve the digestion and strengthen the system. Ask your druggist for them. Price 25 cents. Sent on receipt of price by John D. Park & Sons Co wholesale agents 175 177 and 179 Sycamore St Cincinnati Ohio Bradshaw Thoma Agents for Fairfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Park & Sons Co
Sycamore St
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bradshaw & Thoma
Fairfield
Also Mentioned on This Page
Scott's Minutemen
Volanteers
Roa
Lone Star
Hood
Bogota
United States of Colombia
Trials of
Reed
Boston
G. A. Merich
Kocer
Pluc
Huntzinger & Voorhies
Inteller
Charles Gift
C. L. McGaw
Harnesas
Marness
Pittsburg
West Side
Charles Cift
China
D. G. Magley
Iowa
Simeon Mills
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Madison
Miles
Bradshaw & Thoma’s
St. Tammany Parish
Bradfield
Frank McLaughlin
Philadelphia Times
Yodwin Forrest
D.G. Higley
New Hampshire
L. R. Parton
Rockford
DeWitt
Dead Sea
Shiloh
Bradshaw &Thoma
Bradshaw
Thoma
B. F. Black
Pittsburgh
Goodbank& Fulton
John Bull
Sylph and Kudwe
Western Wheel Works Line
Rob't Lathompson
Sistas
N. S. Bright
Fporgheed
H. W. Weikert, the Hustler
Southwest Corner Public Square
JAS. Locke & CO
Fairfield Music Company
Crawford Blk
Leggett House
Krause
Norman Lichty
Des Moines
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta
Clarke & Junkin
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