Mother Bickerdyke the Soldiers Friend Remembered
Veterans recall Mother Bickerdyke as the soldiers’ friend. She cooked for troops at Chattanooga, traded clothes for food, tended wounded on a hospital boat after Donelson, and comforted both blue and gray with steadfast care and strict discipline.
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Mother Bickerdyke
Angel of Mercy
Mother Icverdyke
Shernan
Chattanooga
Chicago
Ladies of Ie Sanitary Commission
Mother Ickerdyke
General Grant
Battle of Donelson
Be There When the Flag Goes By
A poetic tribute to fallen soldiers and national pride. The speaker urges a boy to lift his hat and honor the flag, praising the dead who bore the banner and urging readiness to serve if the flag calls again. The piece emphasizes reverence, memory, and patriotism through vivid imagery.
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H. C. Bunner
Wisconsin lumberman saves Red River fleet in Civil War
In 1864 a Wisconsin lumberman, Lieut. Col. Joseph Bailey of the Fourth Wisconsin, engineered a dam on the Red River to raise water levels and rescue Admiral Porter’s gunboats and the Mississippi squadron from destruction. The feat saved a $2,000,000 fleet, earned congressional thanks, and earned Bailey a brevet brigadier general’s rank. a sword and cap memorialize the feat at the Wisconsin Historical Society museum in Madison.
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Frederic Merk
Wisconsin Historical Society
Ql Pty
Wisconsin
Red River
Napoleon IIi
Mexico
Texas
General Banks
Admiral Porter
Louisiana
Alexandria
Porter
Joseph Bailey
Fourth
Nineteenth Army Corps
Bailey
Franklin
Maine
Upper Falls
Ound
Lower Falls
Navy Department
Congress
David D. Porter
War Department
The
Wisconsin State Historical Society
University Hill
Madison
See Only the Glorious Future Memorial Day Reflection
The piece urges memorial day to gain new meaning as years pass. It declares the Civil War’s bloody chasm and wounds are largely healed and that survivors and their descendants look forward with hopeful unity.
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Haarlem
Blind Edward Jones a Jeffer son City poultry expert
Blind Edward Jones of Jefferson City Missouri has built his own poultry house and brood coops, hatches and raises all his chicks, and culls his flock by touch. He markets culls as broilers and keeps others for winter eggs while organizing a poultry club for the blind and receiving read aloud aid from a county agent. The Pleasures of Travel recounts a humorous Arkansas tale of a 97 year old resident born in Shagbark township who recalls a near lynching in Torpidville and has done little traveling since.
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Edward Jones
Jefferson City
Jones
United States Department of Agriculture
Grass
Shagbark Township
Torpidville
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Fragmentary dialogue about gender roles appears with a joke on marriage and fashion. No identifiable people, places, or organizations are readable from the provided text.
Suspected blind tiger raid targets suspicious gallery
Police raided a photograph gallery amid a tip about illicit activity. The scene featured urgent police action and an ensuing arrest as investigators pursued possible illegal operations.
Star Declares She Objects to Gross Things
A playful clash over perceptions of grossness follows a young star’s claim she cannot bear anything gross nearby. The retort questions whether revenue could be considered equally gross in jest.
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Vt. Bickerdyke
Ana
Libby
McNeill & Libby
Missourian
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