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Newspaper
Ripon Weekly Times
Location
Ripon, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1863
Page
1
A Civil War era correspondent portrays graves along the river slope near Vicksburg. Soldiers’ headboards, makeshift markers, and scattered tokens mark improvised plots while sapling mementos, sticks, and planks hint at intimate acts of remembrance amidst hardship and floodplain terrain.
A sermon-like exhortation urges careful, pure handling of sacred seed in youth education. It compares seed cleaning to weed removal and warns against careless haste. The speaker emphasizes diligent study, prayer, and faithful sowing to reap rejoicing and divine blessing.
A fragmented 18th or 19th century text contemplates life spans as clock hours, urging self examination of time and deeds. It weaves biblical age references with reflections on fate, duty, and the limits of human knowledge, ending with a quip about polygamy and social commentary.
A South Carolina Journal passage depicts white slaveholding apologists arguing slavery is constitutional in Georgia while recounting a striking scene of a mixed race baby within a slave family. The article notes reactions of soldiers at Fort Pulaski and includes an Beaufort correspondent’s account of Robert Small, a Black pilot, and his views on Negro soldiers and emancipation.
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