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.
13 Dec 1862
Page 1
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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1862
Page
1
Time table item lists schedule entries for the S. W. Branch under supervision of T. McKissock with guidance on sugar train services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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