Fitzhugh Lee's Escape Amid Midnight Civil War Charge
A veteran recounts a Virginia night in 1865 when Confederate cavalry under Fitzhugh Lee attacked the Union camp. A near-miss by a picket rifle halted Lee, who then led three fierce charges attended by thunder, lightning, and devastation before dawn.
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Judge Jenkins
Isconsin
Congress
Mitzhugh Lee
Wei
Virginia
McClelan
Main
Ashington
Igh
Ward
The Power of Song in Libby Prison
An old cavalry captain recounts escape and prisoner exchange after Stoneman raid near Richmond. He describes Libby prison life, a Sunday prayer meeting led by a Massachusetts captain, and a public crowd cheering The Star Spangled Banner in support of Old Glory.
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Libby Prison
Richmond
Stoneman
Chancellorsville
Spear
11Th Pennsylvania Cavalry
Libby
Massachusetts
Discoveries At Chicago University Stir Public Imagination
A Buffalo newspaper lists sensational claims attributed to Chicago University researchers. Among the items are kissing causing lockjaw, dog behavior linked to education, Irish as Indians, Ireland a former lake, primeval man with a gizzard, music as antiseptic, Adam fishing with a club, love as a brain disease, cabbage richer than twelve eggs, and Boccaccio as Swedish.
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University of Chicago
F Financial
John D. Rockefeller
Buffalo
Chicago University
Ireland
Adam
Boccaccio
War era chorus and mocking prose sparkrowd crowd
During a wartime gathering in Lilby Pilson Richmond, a crowd rose in anthem like enthusiasm as a sunken flag was waved and old verses echoed. A spectator from New York City produced a silk flag, provoking loud cheers and repeated chorus before satire and prophetic jabs at Rockefeller and other figures surfaced.
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Lilby Pilson
Hichmond
Gied Banner
Van
Lauder
Meiner
8&1
New York City Regiment
Tammany
Army
Navy
Fortunes for Ball Players in the Baseball Rivalries
An overview recalls the earlier U S league conflict as Ban Johnson pushed to recruit star players from the National League. It notes big salaries and legal injunctions including cases involving Lajoie Delehanty Wolverton Orth and Townsend who moved from Philadelphia to Cleveland and Washington while barred from Philadelphia.
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Ban Johnson
Chicago
St. Louis
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Lajoie
Delehanty
Wolverton
Orth
Townsend
Philadelphia Nationals
Cleveland
Washington
New York Giants and Philadelphia A’s Share Gate Receipts
After battles in New York and Philadelphia the two clubs adopted rules to avoid conflicts and set annual schedules. Under an agreement on the world series gate receipts the first four games split 60 percent with 5 percent to the winners and 25 percent to the losers, yielding about $1200 per Giants player and $500 for Athletics. Philadelphia’s share near $9,000 was distributed among its players as pennant prize.
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New Jersey
New York
Philadelphia
New York Giants
Athletics
The Canada Goose Flight and Hunters Tactics Described
A vintage natural history passage outlines how Canada geese migrate in a wedge formation, feed at sunset on eelgrass and crops, and roost by water. It notes hunter behavior, domestication of geese, and the wary, decisive flight response when startled, creating hunting opportunities.
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Marksman
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Rockefeller
Shakespeare
Arabia
Bulgaria
Air
Copernicus
Galileo
Napoleon Bonaparte
Christy” Mathewson
Giants
Western Wheeled Scraper Co
Aurora, Ill
TIGHY
Twiplies
Cleveland, Ohio
HH. T
Waite Sewing Macune: Co
Pensions
P&illion
Pension Bureau
Taber & Whitman Co., Warder Eld’s
Washington, D.C
Foster
Ernest
Haskell
The
Eugene Poyle, Jr
John Dinwiddie Driscoll
Maximilian
Mexico
Jacqueline
St. Louis Republic
N. Y
N. ¥. Globe
Doubleday, Page & CO
East 16Th St
Canada Goose
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