Civil War Highlights From December 1862 Week
Fifty years ago this week reports recount Confederate President Davis branding General Butler a felon and outlaw, actions at Port Conway, Morgan's raids in Kentucky, Union drives toward Vicksburg, desertions, and Lincoln era proclamations amid the Mobile blockade and Louisiana tribunals.
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Jefferson Davis
Butler
Department of the Gulf
Confederate States
Mobile
Ald
Lincoln
General Banks
Louisiana
Alexander It. Stephens
Confederate States of America
Democratic Party
Baltimore
Charlestown
North
Morgan
Munfords,ince Ky
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Blackwater River
Franklin
Sherman
Gray
Green's Chapel
Munfordsville
Ala
Shank
Bear Wallow
Bacon Creek
Mankato
Minn
Mississippi
Jackson
Major Stevens
Kentucky Cavalry
Powell County
Kentucky
Horse's Sense to Rescue Charitable Arab Named Hamdanie
An Arab horse owned by Pierre Ponafidine in the Moslem East becomes a village favorite for gentleness and wit. During a ride, Hamdanie halted abruptly to shield a group of children, spreading his legs and catching each youngster in turn with his body. Mrs. Ponafidine rode on as the horse saved the day, with the rider and crowd unharmed.
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Hamdanie
Pierre Ponafidine
Ponafidine
Doctrines of Christ and the One Faith
The article argues that Christ’s doctrines remain the core message needed to break sectarian creeds. It cites John 7 17 and urges full consecration to God to understand divine doctrine, noting history’s Dark Ages and the dawning of a New Age. It emphasizes one Lord one Faith and one Baptism and invites readers to devote themselves to the Lord to grasp truth.
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John vii
Christ
the Apostles
God
Father
Jesus Christ
Jesus
Ancient English College Hidden Among Vast Lands
A place in England reveals four cottages within a 30000 acre area. One cottage has stayed in a single family for six centuries and it is noted the kitchen fire has not gone out for two hundred years.
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England
Fruit or vegetable debate shocks Brooklyn magistrate
A Brooklyn magistrate rules cucumbers are fruit noting a tree growth would prove a theory that they caused the fall of man. He adds cucumbers have often done so since, highlighting a humorous legal stand on classification.
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Brooklyn
Wanted ideas for inventions prize offers from Evans firm
Victor J. Evans & Co announces a call for novel inventions with manufacturers and promoters seeking ideas. Free dissemination of four books accompanies the offer, prizes are promised for inventions, patents secured or fees refunded. Located at 700 Ninth St Washington DC.
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Victor J. Evans & CO
Ninth St
Washington, D. C
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P. Graham
E. T. Dorton
Fifteenth
Arkansas Confederate Cavalry
Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry
Rappahannock
Port Conway
Romney
Winchester
Elizabethtown
H. Smith
Dumfries
Stuart
Fitz-Hugh Lee
Yazoo River
Vicksburg
Muldraugh
Blunt
van Buren
Ark
Foley
Granger
Elk Fork
Campbell County
Tenn
Halleck
Corinth
Baton Rouge
Clinton
Munoz
Texas
Zapata County
United States
Lopes
Tamaulipas
United States Provisional Court For
State of Louisiana
New Orleans
Charles A. Peabody
W. G. Chapman
Horse
Ancient English College
Inter Ocean
Farmer
Chicago
Tue Daily
Sunnpayy
West
Inter Ocean and
Farm and
Sullivan Union
THE
Sullivan
Ind
Public Square
Clayton A. Price
Br.r
New York
C. H. Stratton Loan Co
Crowder Bldg
East
Std
Azar
Saltivan,Ind
W. L. Laurent
Shelburn, Ind
Terre Haute
A. m
Pimento
Youngstown
C.T. Howard
Indiana Veterinary College
Parks & Rnects Barn
Sullivan, Indiana
John C. Chaney
Citizens Trust Building
White Front Grocery
W. H. Hill, JR
Insurance, Abstracts
Union and
Star
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