The Overland Route Promises Faster Pacific Mail Travel
The Overland Route offers two daily Denver departures at 1 35 a m and 8 10 a m with services to Portland Ogden Salt Lake City San Francisco Sacramento and Los Angeles. Through baggage checks and Pullman sleepers promised plus low second and third class fares and free family sleepers. Contact D B Keener Denver for rates and pamphlets. Also a quick sales note for Volcanic Oil Liniment by Dr J H McLean.
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TheOverland
United States
Council Blattmaha
Kansas City
Denver
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
California
Portland
Ogden
Sacramento
Pullman Palace
Pacific Coast
Pacific Hotel Company
Daring and Suffering A History of the Andrews Raid
William Pittenger, a participant in the 1862 Andrews Raid into Georgia, presents a focused account of the raid’s daring actions and tragic outcomes. The work, published in 1887, reflects firsthand perspective on Civil War heroism and hardship during the Union operation.
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Andrews
Georgia
Burning Car in Rain Delays Escape and Bridge Fire
In a torrential rain, a group attempts to burn a car to block pursuers at a Chickamauga bridge. Despite soaked wood and rapid firing efforts, smoke and water hinder the blaze. The plan collapses as the engine is moved and pursuers close in, leaving the group to flee toward Ringgold.
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Andrews
Oostenaula Bridge
Calhoun
Chickamauga
Ringgold
The Last Hope of a Railroading Escape
A Confederate pursuit ends as a small band of soldiers abandons their locomotive near Ringgold after a failed plan to reverse the train and slip away. With Andrews exhausted and orders to scatter, the attempt collapses and the chase halts as pursuers close in.
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Andrews
Atlanta
Brown
Knight
Huntsville
Hunted in the Woods by Dogs and Men Chapter XIV
Confessed fugitives recount a Civil War era slave escape. Pursued across hills and mountains, planters with hunting dogs swept the region from Chattanooga toward the south. Escapees feared immediate execution if captured while facing exposure from a false Fleming county, Kentucky disguise.
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South
Chattanooga
Fleming County
Terrible Confederate captivity described by a Union prisoner
A Confederate prison tale recounts brutal capture progression from the first day to full confinement. The narrator details hunger, chains, dark dungeons in Dalton and Marietta, fear of hanging, and the march of prisoners to Chattanooga from Lafayette, Georgia, depicting the brutal slave of war.
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Parrott
Andrews
Tennessee
Dalton
Marietta
Chattanooga
Lafayette
Rex's Pile Remedy Promoted by An Honest Testimony
A Greeley Colorado notice from Sept 16 1887 presents a testimonial for Dr Rexs Pile Remedy. Adelia R Casu claims lifelong pile suffering improved in one week and swears to the truth of the statement before Notary James C Scott. J J Reithman & Co are listed as wholesale agents promising money refunds.
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Greeley
Rex
Pile Pomeer
East Indies
Amarice
Adelia R. Casu
James C. Scott
J. J. Reithman & Co
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Unton Pacific Railway
D. B. Keener
Colo
T. J. Porter
Trenners
Pas
L. Lomax
Pass
Omaha
Neb
J. H. McLean
William Pittenger
War Publishing C c
N. Y
Disrangement
Graysville
Bridgeport
Mitchel
Greeley People
Carepur
Roya Bakino Iownkek CO
Wall St
William Riley
Taylor
Taylor's
H. C. Watson
O. Gale
LEE & Wilson
W. A. Nichols
Cart Emporium
J. Max. Clark
THE
Rochester Lamp
Fie
A.ico
Greeley, Colo
J. K Thompson
East Greelyy
A. J. Eaton
Eaton, Colorado
Greenlee & CQ
Denver, Colorado
GEO. E. Osterhout
E. Brooks
Lawrence S
Windsor
Colorado
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