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Ancient Prophecy and Civil War Echoes in a 1860s Chronicle
A long, mixed page layer recounts poetry on a mourning woman, Civil War obituaries of presidents, and a sweeping list of historical deaths. It juxtaposes prophecies from a Richmond minister with vignettes on Masonry, assassination, and postwar Reconstruction rhetoric, including Johnson and Beecher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Con Press
John Adams
Quincy
Mass
Thomas Jifferoo
Monticello
Adams
James Madison
Montpeler
James Monroe
New York
Washington
Quincy Adams
House of Representatives
Andrew Jackson
Hermitage
Nashville
Washington Martin van Buren
Kindlehook
Columbia County
N. Y
Texas
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Gen. Elakson
United States
Richmond
Virginia
Confederate Congress
James Knox Polk
Tennessee
Zachery Taylor
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson
Madison
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Solnorly
Pittsburg
Caruthers
Paradise
Solomon
Mecca
Allah
Senator Doolittle
Senate
Congress
South
Arme
Unis
Imeniuumns