Chickamauga Park Remembrance and Civil War Echoes
The Chickamauga battlefield near Chattanooga stands as a national military park where Union and Confederate forces clashed in September and November 1863. The piece recalls Lookout Mountain Missionary Ridge and the decisive look to ensure victory for Grant and Sherman, linking past bloodshed to modern memory and the Maine’s anniversary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chickamauga Park
Army Mobiliza ‘Tion
Spain
Gettynburg
Chattanooga
Hosecrana
Lookout Mountain
Chickamauga
Rossville
Risecrans
Army of the Cumberland
Grant
Ohio
Bragg
Rosecrans
Mississippi
Sherman
Thomas
Longatrdet
Burnside
Knoxville
Missionary Tiidge
Bissionary
Joe
Thermopylae
Allence
Hooker
Missionary Ridge
Bluecoata
Idee
Private Howes Pay And The Sewing Machine Inventor
During the Civil War a Bridgeport meeting saw Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, offer to enlist as a private but due to infirmity served as postmaster and expressman for the 17th Connecticut. Years of wartime pay shortages left soldiers anxious as they awaited overdue wages and interviews with paymasters in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
Conn
Elias Howe
Howe
Baltimore
Connecticut
Washington
17Th Connecticut
Tommy Tunkers Tears War Draft Tale
A mother tells Tommy Tucker he must be twelve years older to go to war, prompting him to cry in the barn over a wooden sword and the idea of enlistment. The piece also satirizes mail weighing practices, noting government quadriennial weighings, district divisions, and penalties for padding, with contracts tied to weight and per mile wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy Tunker
Tommy Tucker
Tommy
Malia
Irregularity in Women’s Cycles Discussed in Health Ad
A health advertisement speaks of menstruation irregularity as a basis for many diseases and urges prompt regularity after a menstrual flow begins. It cites Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a regulator and includes a testimonial about fatigue, side and back pain, and irregular menses affecting a girl who left school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Mra
What is Your Trade and Pile Cure Endorsement
A letter from Circleville notary public and jeweler A F Calhoun discusses occupation linked ailments and praises Pyramid Pile Cure. He claims after two applications piles disappeared and no symptoms since. Pyramid Cure sold 50 cents per package with 25 cent pills, claimed safe, non addictive, and widely endorsed by cured individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Notary Public
Circleville
Pyramid Co
Marshall
Mich
Pilex
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Claim Superior Digestive Cure
Advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as the best and most effective cure for all indigestion forms. It praises tablet form for longevity and pocket portability, notes pleasant taste, and asserts rapid digestion reducing fermentation and toxin buildup, claiming clearer complexion and firmer flesh as outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart
Ee Stuart
Sae Stuart
Also Mentioned on This Page
Longstreet
Abje Holder
Polk
Fen “Pap't Thomas
California
Jonsvreel
Boothland
Maine
P. Butter
New York Mat and Express
England
Gladstone
Shell
Roses Crans
Chickamauge Fark
Winchester
Castoria
Upvtcher
Samuel Pitcher
Hyannis
Massachusetts
Thia
Castora
Mothers of America
Centaur Company
Chas. A Fletcher
Epea Bfl
Dean
Marie Johnson
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!