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Rolla Express

Location

Rolla, Missouri, United States of America

Date

Dec 13, 1862

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Time Table (20) S. W. Branch. T. McKissock, Sug t.

Time table item lists schedule entries for the S. W. Branch under supervision of T. McKissock with guidance on sugar train services.

Is It Anybody's Business In Public Affairs

A verse poem questions privacy and gossip in social calls and public life. It ponders whether it is anyone’s business what a gentleman or lady does, and concludes people should mind their own concerns rather than tattling or judging others.

AM GOING TO BE AN ANGEL

A mother and her child share a sunset garden moment with the child Lillie expressing desire to become an angel. The mother explains faith and the afterlife, recalling a spring planted root that grew into a flowering shrub as a hopeful symbol amid tears and longing.

Not Afraid to Die Lillie Sees Heavenly Reward

A mother tells of her child Lillie who, comforted by memories of flowers and heaven, says she will rise as an angel after burial. The scene shifts to Lillie's death as her blue eyes close, again expressing faith in an afterlife with Christ and angels.

Christ Lillie

Bad treatment of Gen Price snubbed by Jeff Davis and his pets

Mobile Register correspondent laments the resignation of Major Thomas L. Snead Price's Chief of Staff. The piece condemns Davis and subordinates for neglect and misallocation of arms and prisoners, arguing Price's value to the Confederate fight and urging public awareness and justice.

Gen. Price Jeff Davis Mobile Register District of Tennessee Thomas L. Snead Price Corinth Bragg Vicksburg Dr. Blackburn Richmond Iuka van Dorn Jackson Confederate States Army Mississippi Confederacy

Lincoln's tender visit to a wounded Confederate youth

President Lincoln visited a Confederate hospital at Sharpsburg and spoke briefly with a dying Georgian soldier. The exchange, marked by humanity and a moment of shared pain, ended with a quiet, conciliatory conversation between the two men before parting.

Lincoln Sharpsburg President Lincoln

Diptheria Scourge Rages Through Western Illinois Towns

From Rock Island Argus, Nov 14 reports diphtheria sweeping western Illinois, especially affecting children in Moline. The piece warns against confinement and urges balanced activity to reduce risk, noting many children die once the disease advances.

Rock Island Moline

Letters From Texas Mother Describes Hard Times and War

A Texas mother near San Antonio writes of bread shortages and high prices for calico and coffee. She notes men hauling lumber to San Antonio, Dutch settlers in the brush, and Union forces in the mountains. She pleads for her son to return if possible and to help her family escape the war’s strain.

Texas San Antonio John Brown Tom

Muskets Bound for Quebec Stopped in New York

The Quebec correspondent for the Globe reports that one hundred boxes of Belgian manufactured muskets destined for Quebec were halted at Troy New York on a Saturday. The arms were said to have been submitted for U S approval and rejected, then sent to a Confederate agent in Quebec for shipment south.

Quebec Toronto Globe Troy WN. Y

Michigan Woman Married in Men’s Clothes in New York

A Michigan woman, wife of a wealthy man, is in New York for dressing in male attire and marrying a pretty girl she met on the cars. The couple have lived as man and wife, spending the husband’s money, though it reportedly cost nothing.

Michigan New York

Contrasann Escort Meets Soldier at Fortifications

An unclear fragment describes a contrasann being escorted to fortifications by a soldier who is then met by another. A voice asks Ike where he is going with that guard, and the reply mentions raindavce the army and Keats Ringwine for ds Smortifications, leaving uncertainty in the passage.

Ike

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