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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1907
Page
5
A Confederate prisoner recounts a daring escape from Andersonville, detailing tunnel digging, crawling from the stockade, and a nighttime railroad plan. The trio seizes a locomotive, rigs a chase, breaks telegraph lines, and evades pursuit across miles toward safety in the Shenandoah valley, aided by a dawn rescue at a remote station.
In Harper's Magazine an anecdote from General Lew Wallace's memoir recounts a lunchroom discovery of an unopened Confederate mail bag. Reading the letters, Wallace felt a new, sobering insight into Confederate motives, concluding that Southern soldiers believed in a cause worthy of respect even if misguided.
The transcript shows a lieutenant and recruit in a tongue in cheek drill. The examiner tests how a recruit would respond to enemy encounters from a single soldier to a battalion and even a cow. The exchange ends with the recruit delivering a humorous line about leading the officer by the horns into camp.
A fragmentary tale recalls General Sterling Price stopping at a Missouri cabin where a polite but flustered hostess overdoes sugar in coffee. The second item notes Captain John M. Clapp's Washington estate leaving about $5,000 per surviving member of Company F, 121st Pennsylvania, from the Civil War, executor not disclosing final amount.
A damaged passage recalls a war memory with fragments of a choir and artillery. The lines juxtapose heroic sounds with broken imagery as voices rise against a cathedral sky. The text hints at sacrifice and moral conflict without clear narrative structure.
A Scribner's Magazine excerpt recalls soldiers at war and peace, with poems on loss and memory. It recounts Edward Young noting the Greeley vs Grant political clash, and KC Kerry Ryan of Seattle claimed as the Civil War’s youngest drummer boy at age nine years ten months, enlisting from Mount Vernon, Texas.
The old Lang Bridge over the Potomac collapsed on March 18 while seven workers were demolishing it. All were rescued as the structure was torn down after weeks of removal. The new steel bridge is completed and ready for railroad, foot, and wagon traffic. The Long Bridge, once used by the Union army returning to Palace after Bull VII, was historic and long in service.
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