Thrilling incidents and somber notes from old extent
The article fragment recounts a morning in the countryside with romantic longing and a village church scene where a stranger in the crowd engages with a girl, followed by a grim account of a living burial of a girl in India, detailing the ceremonial burial beside a dead lover and the perilous mountain ascent to the tomb.
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Ambassador of Grace
Sappho
Werter
Charlotte
John
Pariah
Youghal
Mariatulla
Living Sepulchre Scene Captured In Grisly Account
The passage describes a woman arranged as a living coffin after death, seated on a ledge inside a grave with her corpse on her knees. Bamboo supports and earth cover trap the living person, with vermin-like ritual details and a reference to Vermakin’s delegates and a counterfeit sovereign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mariatalla
Vermakin
Battle Report of Texian Troops and Indian Forces 1839
A July 1839 dispatch from Texas describes a clash near Bowles on the Neches River between Texian troops under Brig. Gen. K. H. Douglass and a coalition of Cherokees Caddoes and other Indians. The engagement followed failed negotiations with Bowles encampment abandoned. Texian forces with Burleson Rusk and Woodleil routed the enemy inflicting eighteen fatalities with several wounded while suffering minimal losses.
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Texas
Red River
Narcnirocnes
Rusk
Nacogdoches
Bowles
Neches
Landrum
Burleson
Delaware Village
Carter
Todd
Woodleil
D. E. Brodgers
Tipp
John Crane
Harrison
H. 2. Cromson
Same
Hooper
HE. M. Smith
Ball
James Anderson
Lewis
Solomon Albright
Indian engagements and rout reported near San Augustine
Captain Landrum led a small force toward a distant engagement but could not pursue as darkness fell. The narrative notes 3 kegs of powder 250 pounds of lead and livestock captured. General Rusk reports another day of battle with Indians estimated at 500 to 600. two killed and over twenty wounded including a San Augustine officer and Augustine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landrum
R. H. Douglass
T. A. James
Magriman
Rusk
Bowles
Augustine
San Augustine
New Orleans
Sioux and Chippeway slaughter reported from Fort Snelling
A July 16 letter from Fort Snelling describes horrific Sioux Chippeway warfare near St Croix and St Anthony falls. Sioux raids killed about 133 at Ram River and many more, including women and children, with Chippeway forces under Hale in the day and Bad Hair consolidating. A Louisville sermon incident ends with a dissenting el, Tallmadge leaving the church.
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St. Louia
Fort Snelling
St. Croix
Falls of
St. Anthony
Lake Calhoun
Falls
Ehale
Ram River
Big Thunder
St Croix
Aitkins
McLoud
Washington
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A. Banks
J. B. Scott
Arges
Standil
Boston
Adam
Garden of Eden
Jesus Christ
Mallit
Louisville
E. Tallmadge
Maffit
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