31 Mar 1866
Page 1
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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1866
Page
1
Mixed 1860s newspaper items describe a Stonewall Jackson daughter portrait, Gettysburg reminiscences, court actions, public notices, a freedmen wedding farce, an elephant rampage, gallows death, and Civil War era letters, tariffs, and local anecdotes with scattered names, places, and dates.
The poem laments a broken family after a gambler’s ruin and a charity of sorrow. It recalls a gray church wedding, a sister torn by fate, and a widow left to bear the husband’s loss. It asks who bears responsibility for poverty and pain, naming the gambler as the central culprit and warning of eternal punishment.
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