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Scurvy on Bremen voyage and strange soldier reunion
A Bremen voyage tale recounts a severe scurvy outbreak among the crew amid mutiny and lime juice remedies, with 13 deaths before port while another story follows a Civil War veteran found alive in Omaha after Antietam, detailing a harrowing capture and long forced travels with Indians and rebels before returning to his brother.
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Bremen
Bingham
Binham
Rescue
New York
Lys
Liverpool
Lawrence S. Leslie
Charles Parry
Parry
Black
Scott
Cape Horn
Stewart
Sancisco Chronicle
Lowing
San Francisco
Troy
Westroy
West Troy
Antietam
Omaha
Douglass Street
United States Service
Andrew
Pensylvania Reserves
McUall
Pensylvania Rifles
Thomas L. Kane
Council Bluffs
Little Tunker Church
Georgia
Sharpsburg
J. E. C. Stuart
Chambersburg
Stuart
Potomac River
Libby
Macon
Texas
Dick Taylor
Confederacy
Taylor
Rio Grande
Mexico
Cortin
Cortiva
Wheeling Window Glass Company
Illinois Kuklux
Jeffersonville
Tndiana
Nancy McKee
Henry J. Soutter
Hainesville
West Virginia
Edward 8. Lacy
Berkeley County
California
John Smith
Lick Creek
Monroe County
England
Dick Williams
Sinking Creek
Greenbrier
Mississippi
S'posin
Southern Pacific
Colorado Desert
United States
Clinton
Masa
Father Jacquemet
Montreal
Bayley
Canada
Arkansas
Warren
Richmond
Bradley T. Johnson
W. E. Tanner
State Senate
W. W. Crump
Gilman
W. P. M. Kellam
James H. Dooly
Charles A. Williams
House of Delegates
Sheridan
Robert Burns
Senate
de Wit Valmage