Battle of Chapultepec and Pittsburg Landing heroics detailed
The report praises Lt Grant and Capt Brooks for turning the enemy’s right at Chapultepec and recounts Grant’s leadership at Pittsburg Landing. It defends Grant against criticism, notes Lt Grant’s gallantry, and extols Illinois troops' valor in the Donelson and Nashville campaigns, emphasizing strategic moves and victory.
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Pittsburg
Shiloh
Grant
Congress
Galena
Gen. Grant
Mr. Morrill
Vermont
Wm. F. Smith
Wasnburne
Washburne
Lamartine
Ays
Houdriscoote
Paris
Wentz
Pepssard
Duquesnoy
Houchard
Revolutionary Tribunal
Ulysses S. Grant
Ohio
West Point
Scott
Jill
Mexico
Taylor
Rio Grande
Palo Alto
Resaca Dela Palma
Monterey
Vera Cruz
Gulf
Molino del Rey
Chapultepec
War Department
Horace Brooks
Chapultoco
U.S. Grant
Fourth Infantry
Francis Lee
Brooks
John Garland
Lendrum
Worth
Mexio
Republic
Pittsburg Landing
Grant Wa
Savannah
Crump
Chant
Potomac
Beh Paleray
Webster
Callender
Tllinois
Tlinois Company
Tlinois
Illinois
Wilson
Kellogg
Wasnurne
Tregret
Linois
General Grant
Low Wallace
Butt
Buell
Toops
Ceneral Halleck
Birceants
Thave
Pittsburgh
Order of Wellington
Beauregard
Vwill
Young heroes of the Civil War rise from New York and Pennsylvania
The piece highlights young volunteers from New York and Pennsylvania, including Stroder Putman and Henry Weidensaul, who enlisted at fourteen and served with the Brooklyn Fourteenth and Forty sixth Pennsylvania Infantry. It recalls their battles from Wilderness to Petersburg, Cedar Mountain, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg, noting wounds and acts of valor.
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Strode
Putman
Brooklyn Volunteers
Henry Wiedensaul
Pennssylvania
Johnny Clem
Veester Cou Tare Stroder
Putnam
Financial
New York
The
Herald
Brooklyn
Fourteenth
Culpepper
Virginia
Grant
Petersburg
Spottsylvania
Lincoln General Hospital
Washington
Government Hospital
Newark
New Jersey
State of
Missouri
Henry Weidensaul
Morgantown
Berks County
Pennsylvania
Winchester
Cedar Mountain
Clhancellorsville
Gettysburg
Piosnow
Dallas
Keneraw
Peachroe Traak
War Department
Milania
Johnny
Cuyket
Copper Rich Veins Reported Near Sierra Madre Frontier
A St Louis correspondent recounts an expedition from the Sierra Madre foot across to Sonora and into Arizona. The journey notes the abundant copper ore surface showing 50 percent copper and vast veins described as sixty feet wide and extending for miles, signaling a potential global market impact.
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Sonora
Maines
St. Louis
Sierra Madre
titStt
Arizona
Copper and silver ore claims touted with minimal mining needed
The note extols a mine with copper ore yielding sixty dollars per ton in silver value and a rich display of variegated specimens. It claims easy extraction via blasting, no shafts or tunnels, and rapid delivery to smelters, noting capital limits and distant prospects like the Don Juan claim two thousand feet away.
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Aoute
Pilot
Knob
Iron Mountain
Lake Superior
Darien
Sarés
Dean Coronen
Yani
N.W. Edwards
Sangamon
Mora
A. Lincoln
Robert Aten
Old Southern New England Towns and Timeless Parlor Life
The piece recalls long vanished Southern New England towns with scattered households centered on Orthodox Congregational patronage and parish life. It evokes prime dames in caps, traditional china, and large family Bibles while describing tranquil main streets, farms, and the quiet rhythms of harvest and winter, framed by memories of Dorald G. Mitchel.
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New England
Orthodox Congregational Society
Dorald Gy Mitchel
Letter from Lincoln praised by Major Allien
Fragmentary notes recount a letter from President Lincoln enclosed with a certificate to Major Robert Allien of the 80th Illinois Volunteers. The piece extols Lincoln’s candor, honor, and integrity, noting the letter’s careful punctuation as evidence of his early literary discipline and future greatness.
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Robert Allien
Lincoln
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