Story of a Gray Jacket Confederate duel and escape
A Civil War tale unfolds from a Confederate tent as Gen Lee directs Capt Wayne toward a Northward mission. Wayne and scout Craig slip behind enemy lines and a Northern girl Edith Brennan is captured with him. Amid attacks and disguises, Wayne battles through danger, aided by Jed Bungay and Edith, to reach Lee’s camp and recounts their perilous escape and pursuit.
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Lee
Wayne
Longstreet
Sergi. Craig
Craiz
Myady
North
Jed Bungay
Red Lowrie
Maj. Brennan
Union
Sheridan
Edith Brennan
Gen. Lee
Miss Inoz
Brennan
Edith Adieu
Uberty
Bungay
Shenandoah
Miss Minor
Mrs. Unsay
Edith
Johnny
Final Meeting in a Shattered Confederate Hall
After a brutal house fight, Captain Wayne and Mrs. Brennan face a farewell as Federal troops clear the hall. Miss Minor comforts Wayne and hints at a future reunion in Stonington, Conn, while a painful separation seems likely. Wayne vows to seek her again if paths cross.
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Drennan
Captain Wayne
Edith Brennan
Brennan
Miss Minor
Caton
Ebers
Virginia
Wayne
Major Brennan
Stonington
Conn
Mrs. Bungay
Confederacy
Cap
Beelaebub
A Confederate Cipher of Duty and Desire
In a war torn setting Major Brennan and a devoted sight exchange vows of loyalty and love. The narrator contemplates a risky meeting while hiding a personal plan amid raids on a Charlottesville plantation and a bustling homefront reunion with Mrs. Bungay and Jed.
Founder of Kansas Herald of Freedom A Border War Figure
Dr. George Brown, aged ninety two, once published the Herald of Freedom in Lawrence beginning 1854, a pivotal free state newspaper in Kansas. He lived through Lawrence raids of 1856 and the border struggles, earning local fame for his fearless anti slavery stance and early abolitionist journalism. Governor Geary once spoke at the Herald building as the flag was raised.
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Illinois
Kansas
George Brown
Lawrence
Herald of Freedom
Dr. Brown
Kansas City Star
Kan
New England Emigrant Aid Company
D. W. Wilder
Geary
Herald Building
Multk
Drift from the Herald of Freedom founder Dr George Brown
Mrs Sara T D Robinson widow of ex governor recounts Dr George Brown who founded the Herald of Freedom in Lawrence Kansas in 1854 and who at ninety two wrote editorials, reviewed columns, refused toxicant ads, opposed wrong in all forms, championed human freedom even while jailed on the border days and lived to see his principles triumph.
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Jude
Sara T. D. Robinson
Robinson
Brown
Pearl fishing in Scotland on freshwater Tay rivers
The article describes freshwater pearl fishing on Scotland’s River Tay. Fishermen use bamboo poles and glass-bottom vessels to locate oysters, open shells with knives, and search for pearls, with gems rare but valuable enough to fetch high prices in a small Tay trade.
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Tay
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Vealon
Fandal Parrish
Arthur T. Williamson
Richmond
Charlottesville
Scotland
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