Battle of Patterson Park Recalled by Civil War Veterans
J A Watrous recounts a night march and near confusion at Patterson Park Baltimore where Sixth Wisconsin faced a mock attack with improvised weapons and unammunitioned muskets. Officers, guards, and private Kerr assess a rebel fort as the regiment braces under fear while a mistaken horn from an ox spurs alarm. The episode ends with the lieutenant colonel resigning a month later.
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Patterson Park
Baltimore
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
Jake Denier
Bragg
Chicago
Pittsburg
Harrisburg
Atria
Madison
Milwaukee
Ben Sweet
Johnny Burns
Company E
Spo
Harper's” Ferry
Mijor Sweet
Julius P. Atwood
Banty Tuttle
Colonel Atwood
Major Sweet
J. A. Watrous
Chicago Times-Herald
Personal Feelings of a General in Battle as Described by Schofield
In Forty six Years in the Army Gen Schofield recalls the tension and courage of Civil War commanders. At Nashville Gen Thomas and Schofield watched the field from horseback with Thomas urging for rightward action while remaining unfazed by shell bursts. He notes how rank sometimes kept leaders from sharing in the firing line and even dismounting to man a gun in moments of extreme combat.
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Schofield
Nashville
Thomas
Gen. Schofield
Sight for Lew Wallace at Fort Donelson
General Lew Wallace learned not all wear uniforms when four soldiers carried a fifth and claimed he could not walk. A nearby shell forced the group to desert. the supposed wounded man jumped up and outran them. This vignette comes from Youth's Companion.
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Lew Wallace
Fort Donelson
Wallace
Too Careless with Guns Says Uncle Aaron
The Atlanta Journal quotes Uncle Aaron decrying reckless gun use by youths. He laments the danger and social harm caused when young men seek to show off with firearms and urges responsible behavior and staying home to prevent tragedy.
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Aaron
Rickliss
Atlanta Journal
Parrot Polly of Sumter Dies After Fort Firefight
Polly a parrot owned by William Parkinson of Staten Island died after being part of the Fort Sumter garrison when General Beauregard opened fire. The bird kept up good spirits during the siege and, awarded the honors of war, was sent north by her owner.
Religious Thought and Movement What the Great Denominations Are Doing
News Notes from All Lands discuss marriage as divine law and Christian blessing. It notes historical shifts from ancient practices to modern views, cites various cultures, and emphasizes prayer combined with personal duty to combat iniquity. The piece urges strong resolve and effort alongside prayer.
God Keep Watch Between Thee And Me Poem Reflection
A devotional meditation on shared journeys and divine protection inspired by Genesis 31 49 and Frances Havergal. A traveler disperses religious tracts aboard a train while a skeptical man questions the measure of faith and the tract is given, illustrating faith’s quiet power and accountability.
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Frances
Havergal
Cambridge
New York
Jesus
Rami
Prayer and Duty Verse Fragment Leaves Ambiguity Behind
Fragmentary OCR text hints at theme of prayer and duty with scattered phrases about verbal prayers and justice. No clear event, persons, or organizations are identifiable in the readable lines.
Ready to Die and the Daily Step Toward Death
The Sunday School Times reflects on Davids warning that life is brief and each moment could be the last. It urges living with awareness of mortality and readiness to meet death today rather than delaying true living.
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David
Sunday School Times
Learn to be short and condense your message
The text urges brevity in speaking praying writing and living. It stresses that long expositions exhaust audiences and that life and time are short. Emphasizes sticking to main facts and boiling messages down to concise sentences.
Love Letter Spirit in Bible Reading
A young woman explains devotional Bible reading as reading with love and devotion to the author. She says she rereads a letter from someone she loves not out of duty but pleasure, and equates that spirit with devotional scripture reading.
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United Presbyterian
Hope in Childhood and the Promise of Tomorrow
A reflection on childhood hope as a golden day of promised discoveries and fulfillment. The piece ponders whether such hope is real, arguing that a glorious tomorrow is linked to infinite time and faith in what may be. Reverend Ernest Evans frames hope as an enduring, optimistic outlook.
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Ernest Evans
Domestic ties and moral renewals in Victorian rhetoric
The passage praises personal contact with the suffering and the poor through marriage and close social bonds. It finds moral uplift in domestic life and cites Gladstone reading the Bible to an old street sweeper as evidence of virtuous public charity and empathy.
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Gladstone
Hedwim Arnold
World Wide Religious Notes Highlight Global Faith Links
The Presbyterian church of Canada builds a church at Skaguay. Delaware schoolchildren gift a $300 Bible to the US gunboat Wilming ton. Dublin’s Methodist Women’s Total Abstinence Union grows to 374 members in three years. Pilgrim’s Progress rendered into 84 languages, second only to the Bible. Chicago’s Dr. Harper and Louisville’s Dr. Sampey will translate the Old Testament via Bible Union. Jesuits run church hospital and school in Dawson City with 26 patients. New York City’s Louis’ Protestant Episcopal Church funds a clergy loan library. Before Louis XIV, France had 2,000,000 Protestants. now 659,825 with 582 parishes and 700 pastors. London’s Mission to Night Cabmen celebrates 37 years aiding cabbies with night and day outreach.
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Presbyterian Church of Canada
Skaguay
Wilmington
Del
United States
Methodist Women’s
University of Chicago
Sampey
Theological Seminary
Louisville
Bible Union
Dawson City
Mumers
Montreal
All. Louis
France
London
Cavailabla
Senate Wins Compromise on Civil Bill in Facedown Session
The conference report on the sundry civil bill was agreed to after a long debate over restoring lands to the public domain for homestead entry and deferring a forest reservation order. Hawaiian annexation debate continued with filibusters and protests in the Senate led by Mr. Morgan and Mr. White.
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Congress
Senate
House
Nelson
Henderson
McEnery
Dem
Turley
Tenn
Morgan
White
Cleveland
Clay
Georgia
Roach
North Dakota
Caffery
Louisiana
District of Columbia
Hobson
Hudson
Cardenas
Capt. Hodgson
Hugh McCullough
Manila
Mahon
Rep
Otjeh
Richardson
Hawaii
Frank E. Newcomb
Winslow
Hodgson
McCulloch
Military Affairs Committee
Secretary of War
West Point
Despair and Depths Across Timely Quotes
A compilation of adages and curiosities cites Burke Cecil Shenstone and a note on ocean depths beneath Tristan da Cunha. It mentions a petrified tree bridge in Arizona spanning a deep chasm and remarks on wealth seen as poverty.
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South Atlantic Ocean
Tristan da Cunha
Rio de la Plata
Arizona
Equally Unprofessional Exchange At Dinner
A public dinner years ago featured Mark Twain delivering a piquant address. Evarts rose and, with hands in his pockets, quipped about a humorist being funny. Twain replied with a retort about a lawyer having his hands in his own pockets.
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Mark Twain
Mr. Evarts
Nickel Plate Spring Schedule Counts Trains by Direction
Nickel Plate Road announces spring timetable showing trains numbered one two three in each direction. The new schedule details daily express services and their frequency for the route, outlining departures and service balance across directions.
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Nickel Plate Road
Nothing to Mourn For
A concise exchange notes a Klondike traveler dying en route, triggering no mourning. The uncle’s death is revealed in a casual conversation, underscoring a restrained personal reaction.
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the Klondike
Hall's Catarrh Cure Sold as Constitutional Remedy
The advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy priced at 75 cents.
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Hall
Not Volluntary The Good Man at Visiting Prison
A dialogue reports a prisoner saying he was forced into the visiting area, insisting he did not choose to enter and was dragged there by force. The exchange portrays coercion within the facility.
Official Photographs of the United States Navy book offer
The advertisement promotes a new book with maps of Spanish possessions and naval life. It notes 192 pages of illustrations and ship life details. Offered by Chicago Newspaper Union, 93 South Jefferson Street, Chicago Illinois, postpaid for 25 cents in silver.
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United States Navy
Chicago
Union
South Jefferson Street
Ill
All through WABASH trains have reclining chair cars and palace sleeping cars
The report notes Wabash trains feature reclining chair cars with free seats and luxuriously appointed palace sleeping cars throughout the system.
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Wabash
Heads From Ecuador to New Zealand Sold at London Auction
Public sale in London featured twelve human heads from Ecuador New Guinea and New Zealand among other places. A tattooed Maori head reportedly fetched 17 guineas amid the collection. Also noted are Nickel Plate Road Sunday outings allowing groups of five or more to travel up to one hundred miles round trip for one dollar.
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London
Ecuador
New Guinea
New Zealand
New York
Nickel Plate Road
It Must Be a Wonder Jones Arrested for Bigamy in Flat
New York man arrested for having two wives and living with both in the same flat. Mrs J S Northcott of Windsor Ontario endorses Piso’s Cura for lung and chest diseases.
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Jones
New York
Brown
J. S. Northcott
Windsor
Ont
Canada
Remarkable relief story from Lydia E. Pinkham’s remedy
A Philadelphia woman writes that after years of womb trouble and near despair she found relief with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She details severe symptoms, sleeplessness, and nervous distress, then credits steady improvement after starting the remedy and expresses gratitude.
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Lydia
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
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