Saved the Fleet A Wisconsin lumberman saves the Red River fleet
In 1864 Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Bailey led a daring dam construction to raise water levels and ferry Admiral Porter's gunboats past rapids on the Red River. The improvisation, built by 3000 men from Wisconsin regiments, enabled three to four gunboats to reach deep water, earning Bailey a congressional thanks and a brevet brigadier general promotion for Merk.
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Wisconsin
Red River
Napoleon II
Mexico
Texas
General Banks
Admiral Porter
Alexandria
Louisiana
Porter
Joseph Bailey
Fourth
Nineteenth Army Corps
Bailey
Wisconsin Pineries
Twenty-third
Twenty-ninth
Lower Falls
Congress
War Department
Frederick Merk
Obituary notices from a Lancaster-area paper
Last summons continues detailing survivors of Charles D Brown of Brownstown with siblings in Lancaster Ephrata and Canton and the Evangelical church services led by Rev Eaby Fifteen month old Ruby B Herr of Talmage dies after infant trouble funeral at Neffsville Lutheran church interment in nearby cemetery M M Horning eighty four dies in Newport Rhode Island once a rose recipient of Manheim Feast of Roses descendant of Baron Steigel burial on church site in Manheim where church stood in 1770
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Charles D. Brown
Brownstown
E. R. Brown
Lancaster
Isaac R. Brown
Ephrata
Louise Wenger
Elizabeth Sherely
Canton
Ohio
Brownstown Evangelical Church
W. A. C. Eaby
Ruby
Harry B. Herr
Talmage
Neffsville
M. M. Horning
Manheim
Newport
R. I
Miss Horning
Baron Stiegel
Sudden Death of Jacob Hollinger of Mastersonville
Jacob H. Hollinger, a well known Mastersonville resident, died suddenly on Tuesday evening from apoplexy. He was 70, had been selling celery when he collapsed at a house. He died at home shortly after. Surviving are his wife and many children and relatives across Mastersonville Rapho and nearby townships. Funeral is Saturday at 9 a.m. at the house and 9:30 a.m. at Chiques meeting house with interment there.
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Jacob H. Hollinger
Mastersonville
Hiram
Jacob
Eiias
Morris
White Oak
Allen
Mount Joy
Clayton
Bachmanville
Jos. Hostetter
Rapho Township
Allen Ruhl
Rapho
Samuel
Joseph
Elizabethtown
John
Lexington
Michael Will
Oklahoma
Monroe
David
Penryn
Chiques Meeting House
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Victor
Victrola
the Donovan
Victrolas
East King St
Lancaster, Pa
Leber
Illinois
Proso Bros
Menno KuxTz
Engle
HEAL
Queen SF
N. Y. State
Baldwin
B. B. Leamann
Broad St. Lititz, Pa
B. F. Lutz Cedar
St. Lititz, Pa
C. S. Zartman
Lititz, Pa
C. R. Miller’s
Big Department Store
Chas. R. Miller Corner Bread & Grange Sis
Drybread’s
Ind
Drybread’s Restaurant
East Main St
Lititz
Paxson
Paxson Manufacturing Co., Inc
Lanson St
Philadelphia
General Distributors
Miller & Hartman M.S. Miller & CO
Mer
East Main Street
Henry Heiserman
Lititz Springs
B.B. Seaman
N. Broad Street
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