Atlanta Exposition Opens as It Battles for Public Backing
The Atlanta Exposition begins under President Cleveland's signal, with promises of later readiness. It highlights the New South, Chinese Village, Midway attractions, and distant trade aims, while detailing funding, planning, and the goal to boost US South American trade relations.
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Atlanta Exposition
Cleveland
Gray Gables
Massachusetts
Georgia
South
Atlanta
United States
New South
New Orleans
Atlantia
General Schofield to Retire Amid Farewell Events
The War Department prepared a notable farewell for Lieut. Gen. Schofield on September 29, marking his sixty fourth birthday. He is praised for open, courteous leadership and will leave the post as the title lieutenant general dies with his retirement. Brockaway the counterfeit king faces grand jury after continued examination. A popular actress plans a starring tour in The Queen of Liars with possible leading men Ochiltree Perkins or Mulhatton.
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Clark Howell
Atlanta
William A. Hemphill
Howell
United States
Central
South American
Iuisohs
Schofield
War Department
Lamont
Army
Navy
William E. Brockway
Romaine
Jersey City
Brockaway
United States Grand Jury
Yom Ochiltree
Eli Perkins
Joe Mulhatton
Chinese Refuse to Punish Missionary Killers
Advices from Foo-Choo say Chinese authorities will not execute murderers tied to missionary massacres unless other demands are met. The British American Joint Commission is halted and foreign fleet presence is deemed necessary for any punishment. Officials at Ku Cheng resist sentencing, offering one life for each European killed and no further action.
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Foo-Choo
China
Nationwide pageant and reunion parade at Chickamauga and Chattanooga
A national act of Congress directed a two battlefield dedication linking Union and Confederate groups. Officials including Lamont and top federal figures attended, with veterans and societies from the Army of the Cumberland and the Grand Army of the Republic. The plan restores battle lines, marks forts, and erects monuments across 6,000 acres, 400 tablets and 9 granite monuments plus eight pyramidal shell monuments honor troops and battles from Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge. The 1863 clash near Chattanooga featured heavy casualties and strategic contest, noted as one of the war’s fiercest engagements.
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War Lamont
United States
Supreme Court of the United States
House
Schofield
Miles
Gherardi
Walker
United States Navy
Society of the Army of the Cumberland
Army of the Cumberland
Chattanooga
Society of the Army of the ‘Tennessee
Cincinnati
Confederate Society of the Army of the Tennessee
Grand Army of the Republic
Louisville
Sons of Veterans
W. 8
Rosecrans
California
James Longstreet
Chickamauga
Blue Grass
Missionary Ridge
Lookout Mountain
Orchard Knob
Wauh
South
Chattanooga National Military Park
Tennessee
Chattanooga Military Park
George W. Landrum
Second
Ohio
Third
Thomas
Kentucky
Missouri
West Virginia
Maryland
Bragg
Indiana
Illinois
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
Arkansas
Grant
Ilinois
New York
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Wisconsin
Carolina
Patriotism Blooms at Chickamauga Chattanooga Park Dedication
A post Civil War patriotism surge marks the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park dedication in Chattanooga Tennessee. Generals Palmer Gordon Howard Wheeler Grosveoor Walthall Oates and Lamont lead ceremonies with 100 guns and multiple parades while state and society groups unveil monuments honoring Union and Confederate regiments across twenty eight states.
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A. P. Stewart
Chickamauga
Park
Snodgrass Hill
Lamont
John M. Palmer
Illinois
John B. Gordon
Georgia
Chattanooga
Society of the Army of the Tennessee
Union
Army of Tennessee
Confederate
Granville M. Dodge
O. O Howard
Joseph Wheeler
Alabama
Charles H. Grosveoor
Ohio
William H. Bate
Tennessee
Army of the Potomac
Army of Northern Virginia
Edward ©. Walthall
Mississippi
Orlando Smith
William O., Oates
Bishop Hunt
Bishop Keane
Richmond
Gen. Warner
Gen. Dodge
Army of the Tennessee
Chickamauga and
Chattanooga National Military Park
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Cairo
Coney Island
Atlantic City
Henry H. Smith
France
Germany
Russia
England
Italy
South America
Jackson Park
Piedmont Park
Chicago
Central American
Dunraven
Congress
Lieut. Gen
Scho
Rosencrana
Kayley
Braggy
Brance
Lovathon
O O'Eloel
Genera Tese Erans
Galing
Nia Chene
Worth
Uncle Sam
John
Apy
Smas
Chicago Times-Herald
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park
United States Cavalry
Chickamauga's Field
South Wild
Union Oficers
6Th Corn
Chickamauga Field
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