Love Letters Of General Pickett In War And Romance
A lengthy excerpt from The Pictorial Review features General George Pickett’s letters to Lasallé Corbell later Mrs. Pickett. The notes recount Pickett’s Confederate loyalties, personal vows, and wartime anxieties from Virginia secession through Gettysburg, plus marriage hopes and news of their newborn son. The correspondence blends devotion with battlefield realism, highlighting Pickett’s prayers, separations, and the toll of war on family and nation.
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Pictorial Review
George Pickett
Lasallé Corbell
Pickett
Biden
Lired
Love's Enchanted Land
End of War Letter Foretells Lincoln's Surrender Time
Fragment from a Civil War letter penned hours before Lee’s surrender at Appomattox recounts looming victory, the toll of battle, and a beloved division’s losses. It blends personal vows, reverence for God, and vivid memory of Seven Pines and other engagements as the writer braces for uncertain fate.
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Appomattox
Jackerie
Johnston
God
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Williamsburg
Wilcox
McClellan
Seven Pines
Ganes’ Mill
Frazier's Farm
Second Manawsaa
Boonsboro
Sharpsburg
Gettysburg
Bermuda Hundred
Fort Garrison
Danbury Railroad Man Hibernates Through Winter
John Hart of Danbury Connecticut a railroad man has slept in bed to pass the rest of winter He plans to rise only when spring arrives following a groundhog example This has been his practice for five winters He says it helps him though he is weak at first when waking in spring and regains strength quickly.
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Confederacy
West Point
South Carolina
Jamison
North
Pickett
Gaines’ Mills
Virginia
Noah's
Union of States
Grant
Chulka
Jackerie
Darling
Sam
Chalita Min
Gettysburg
Dick Garnett
Emper
Lewis Armistead
Cabel
Deweetheart
Danbury
Conn
John Hart
Germany and America Complete Direct Wireless Link
The Nauen wireless station near Berlin reports direct wireless communication with New York, marking the first such link between Germany and America. The distance to Berlin from New York is about 4,400 miles.
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Nauen
Berlin
New York
Germany
America
British unions plan vast industrial union movement
A serious move in Great Britain aims to unite coop eratives and organized labor into a single association representing about 5,000,000 people. The plan would coordinate education, industry, and parliamentary aims, with executives meeting in February to decide actions and seek consensus at regional conferences.
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Soule
Great Britain
Planus
Labor Movement
Jacienne
Trades Union Congress
General Federation of ‘Trade Unions
The
Labor Party
Women's Trade Unions
Independent Labor Party
Cooperative Societies
United Kingdom
United Labor
Co-operative Association
Rare coin vase found by Marmery vine grower near Paris
A vine grower near Paris unearthed a granite vase holding eighteen gold, eighty silver and twenty-two copper coins. Dates range from Charles VIII 1484 to Henry VII and Edward VI, with other historically valuable pieces.
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Paris
Marmery
Charles VIII
Louis XII
Francis I
Henry VII
Edward VI
England
Willard Wyckoff Guest and Community Events in Port Monmouth
Willard Wyckoff of New York recently visited Mr and Mrs Rufus. A reception and dance in Crescent Hall support Dorothea Church and a play The New Woman at Crescent Hall benefits Jr O V U M A. M. A social at Mrs A M Mosbys raised funds for the Hook and Ladder Company. Two fishing hawks observed near Port Monmouth signal early spring activity. New residents include Charles Daill with family at Campbell avenue and Chas H Walling Jr moving to Wilson avenue.
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Willard Wyckoff
New York
Rufus “Water
Charles Sheck
North Carolina
Hll
Crescent Hall
the &T. Dorothea's Church
Crescent Trail
VU. A. M
A. M. Mosby
Hook and Ladder Company
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Christina Hook
Red Bank
Misa Weaver
Helen Powers
Jessie Rush
Middletown
N. Y
Blanche Wilburn
William Walling
John Broauder
W. E. Wailing
Port Monmouth
Port Monmonmouth
Charles Daill
Joseph Carter
Campbell Avenue
Keyport
Taylor
Wilson Avenue
Baby girl born to Keansburg yacht club commodore
Dr Peter Stork visited Capt and Mrs Walter Bailey of Keansburg last Thursday and left a baby girl weighing eighteen pounds. Mother and child are doing well with the Bailey home noting eight children born there, five living. Belford teacher Anna Murphy returns to Belford Grammar School after illness, filled temporarily by Mrs William Cobb.
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Peter ‘Stork
Walter Bailey
Keansburg
Mother
Babe
Bailey
Keansburg Yacht Club
Bailey Homestead
Belford
Anna Murphy
Belford Grammar School
Miss Murphy
William Cobb
Trolley Conductor Edward Aumack Returns to Work
Edward Aumack of Eatontown resumes duties as conductor for the M. C. B. Co. after a three week vacation. He reports the rest has revived him and he can now work with vim.
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Edward Aumack
Eatontown
Mr. Aumack
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