Resting Heroes of the Civil War at Memorial Sites
A photo essay recalls graves and monuments of Ulysses S. Grant Farragut Sherman Sheridan Porter Halleck Hooker and Meade in Riverside New York Woodlawn Arlington Greenwood Laurel Hill and Philadelphia cemeteries. It chronicles their births battles and final resting places highlighting monuments and memorials as lasting tributes to their service.
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Grant
Riverside
New York
Tcamseh Sherman
St. Louis
Sheridan
Arlington Cemetery
Heme
America
Lorief
Walleck
Greenwood Cemetery
Henry Wager Halleck
Westernville
Oneida County
West Point
California
Army
Mississippi
Valley of the
Cumberland
Corinth
Washington
United States
Halleck
Pacific
South
Louisville
Joe
Joe” Hooker
Hindley
Mass
Yorktown
Garden City
L. I
Hercile Meade
George Gordon Meade
Laurel Jill
Philadelphia
Cadiz
Spain
Civil War Generals and Medals From the Civil Struggle
Narratives recount brigadier general and major general ranks with battles at Bull Run Chancellorsville Gettysburg and Rapidan. Custer is profiled with West Point 1861 service and Little Big Horn death. Also memorializes Major B F Stephens and his Grand Army of the Republic plan burial at Rock Hill Illinois.
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Phills
Philip Kenry Sheridan
Albany
West Point
Ohio
Army of the Cumberland
Murfreesboro
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Army of the Potomac
the Wilderness
Todd’s Tavern
Spotsylvania Court House
Beaver Dam
Richmond
Early
Longstreet
Sheridan
Winchester
Nonquitt
Mase
Adit
al David YD. Porter
Farragut
Davie D. Porter
Arlington Cemetery
Washington, D. C
Chester
Tie
Commodore Porter
New Market Cross Roads
Bull Run
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Rappahannock Station
Philadelphia
Custer
George Armstrong Custer
New Rumley
Culpeper
Plains
Little Big Horn
G. A. KR
Rock Hill
B. F. Stephenton
Grand Army of the Republic
Wayne County
Ill
Nock Creek
Fourteenth Infantry
Shiloh
Soldiers Rest in Peace With Pansies Over Graves
A solemn verse honors fallen soldiers with pansied graves as blue gray memories keep vigil. The poem memorializes child-soldier guards and mourns the loss of those who fell in battle, urging friends to lay flowers and bid them good night.
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Tce
Decoration Day in a Living Picture of the City
A New York Sun reflection on Decoration Day shows a city in living motion with flowers, blue-clad marchers, and elevated platforms. It recalls drums, rhythm, and the hopes and sorrows of soldiers, praising past days and lost youth through a vivid, ceremonial urban tableau.
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Mulvany
New York Sun
Comrades Brave Remembered On Union Soldiers’ Graves
Poem recalling fallen comrades and Union soldiers who died in war. It speaks of their smiles from tented fields and drums keeping solemn time to life’s dirge. In hopeful lines, the text imagines future reunions on the shining shore and younger generations keeping memory with flowers.
A Child Warrior and Decoration Day Sketches
The article recounts youths in the Vendean rebellion with a 14 year old Chevalier of Mondyon’s defiant vow at Chnautannay. It notes Decoration Day’s history with eighty two national cemeteries and 327,179 graves, half unknown. Dr Jenk ins health officer of New York port is described as tall and light framed with auburn whiskers.
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Guiney
Henri de la Rochejaquelein
Chevalier
Mondyon
Chnautannay
Leutenant
Trent
United States
Dr. Jenkins
Port of New York
Mississippi
The Liberty Bell Heralds Peace Across the States
The Philadelphia Ledger recalls the Liberty Bell’s storied history from its 200 years of service. It travels from state to state as a talisman of peace, inviting unity and faith, while celebrating liberty for all under a shared national vow.
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Hell
Quaint relic locomotive John Yull at World's Fair
One of the first rail engines ever built, the John Yull, is displayed at the World’s Fair. The article traces its origin with Robert L. Stevens ordering a locomotive from George Stephenson in 1831, leading to the John Bull. It served for years before being sidelined and stored at Bordentown.
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John Yull
Robert L. Stevens
Camden and Amboy
New Jersey
George Stephenson
John Bull
Bordentown
Remarkable Find and John Bull at Chicago Fair
A storied early locomotive John Bull will join the Chicago fair entourage with Robert P Burt of Janesville, famed as the first to run the John Bull on iron rails. Burt, born 1810 in Glasgow, guided the Comet on wooden rails and later served Camden and Amboy Road. Berlin reports a living moa, a giant flightless bird once thought extinct, discovered in New Zealand by the Ornithological Society, with Maoris recounting its past abundance and slaughter.
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Chicago
Robert P. Burt
Janesville
Wis
John Bull
Camden and
Amboy Road
Mr. Burt
United States
Tamaqua -Lo
Clinton
Ohio
Merp
Amboy
Burt
Glasgow
Berlin
Ornithological Society
New Zealand
Windsor Castle A Storied Seat Of English Kings
Windsor Castle stands as one of England’s most attractive royal abodes. From William the Conqueror to Victoria, it has housed sovereigns, hosted great events, and preserved relics of chivalry and portraits of heroes. Public tours reveal the palace’s principal objects and famed rooms.
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Windsor Castle
England
William the Conqueror
Edward III
Henry Tudor
York and
Lancaster
Wand
Katherine of Aragon
Anne Boley
Bess
Shakspeare
James
Charles
Commonwealth
Stattholder
George
Victoria
Windsor
Royal Chapel
Charles II
Samson WhitmanLifts 700-Pound Cow From Ice
Lewiston Missouri man Oscar F Whitman is praised for immense strength after lifting a cow weighing 700 pounds off an icy spill. Onlookers watched as he hoisted the animal two feet higher than a standing position with apparent ease, then set it safely on the ground. He also reportedly lifts heavy men with little effort and attributes his power to a mysterious force.
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Samson
Oscar F. Whitman
Lewiston
Whitman
Found After Thirty-Five Years Reunion With Sisters
Irvin S Merrill, who left home 35 years ago and was believed dead after war service, reappeared after his sisters in New Brunswick New Jersey learned a pensioner with the same name was living in a Western city. A recent visit to the East confirmed letters were never received by the sisters.
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Irvin S. Merrill
New Brunswick
N. J
Pension Bureau
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N. Y
Ulysses S. Grant
Point Pleasant
Clermont County
Jefferson Barracks
Illinois
Twenty-first Illinois Infantry
Heary
Donelson
Department of the Tennessee
Vicksburg
Senate
Lee
Republican Party
Mount MacGregor
Saratoga
Woodlawn
David Glasgow Farragut
Campbell’s Station
Knoxville
Tenn
Trantford
New Orleans
B.F. Butler
Butler
Portsmouth
N. H
Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
Tyler
Kentucky
Atlanta
Georgia
Savannah
Lovi
Laurel Iil
Hancock
Norristown
Ar Crant
Riverside N.Y
McLellan
McClellan
Tecumseh Sherman
ST Louis, MO
Dashing
Antimgton
Ufe
THE
Liberty Bell
Pwalaqe
Morelig
Philadelphia Ledger
Hood
Warner
Flood
Lac
Warner, Fond du
Carter
Liz Bosce
Conrest
Potter Drug CO
Park Ave
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