Wild Battle Scenes in Colonel King's Charge Description
Excerpt from Colonel King's Between the Lines recounts a Civil War cavalry clash. Union troopers in blue surge across a sunlit field as Hampton’s flag leads a desperate Confederate defense. Kearney’s squad breaks through, exchanges brutal blows, and a gray knight in gold blocks a fatal strike before a crash of horse and rider ends the moment.
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King
Custer
Chester
Hampton
Lee
Union
Kearney
Drayton
Dayton
King's
The Colonel Withdrew A Duel Duel Bluff Ended Cold
A Southern fire-eater Colonel Gray challenged by a plucky Yankee in a hotel billiard room during postwar tense talk. The Yankee Isaac Williams coolly drew revolvers, taunted the Colonel, then they prepared to duel but Williams destabilized him and the Colonel surrendered and left. Also noting 35,089 pensioners were rolled last year.
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Colonel Gray
Tennessee
Kurnel
Neow
Isaac Williams
Ecard
Hannah
N. Y. Sun
Mighty Battle Maps Span Civil War Across States
A Civil War statistics piece notes a map showing 892 major engagements across the states led by Captain Frederick Puisterer’s 1883 list. It tallies battles by state and highlights 1864 as the bloodiest year with Grant’s campaigns. It also recounts a small anecdote from the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts about a soldiers lucky knapsack before Petersburg.
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Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
North Caroling
Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Illinois
Arkansas
Kansas
Louisiana
Pues Territory
Mississippi
Texas
Frederick Puisterer
United States Army
Charles Scribner’s Sons
New York
Fort Sumter
Kirby Smith
Grant
Phisterer
Massachusetts
Petersburg
Stannard
Chicago Veteran Recounts Old Settler Bush Title Deed Tale
Captain Kotzabric, a Navy veteran now living near Columbus, recounted a Milwaukee G A R reunion tale about Chicago settler Bush. In 1851 Bush sued a muscular neighbor, who compromised by deeded property on Washington Street. Bush refused $100,000, retaining his title and gain from the settlement.
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Kotzabric
United States Navy
Chicago
Ohio
Columbus
Milwaukee
Bush
Washington Street
Random Shots From Civil War Echoes and Veterans Meet
A compact panel recounts brutal Civil War battle losses at Cold Harbor and Gettysburg, notes Boston's postwar hospitality pledges, and lists officers elected at the Society of the Army of West Virginia meeting. Key figures include General George B. Crook, R. B. Hayes, W. H. Powell, I. H. Duvall, and others.
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Cold Harbor
Boston
Grand Army
Sons of Veterans
Europe
Union Army
J. B. Barcneiper
Gettysburg
Society of the Army of West Virginia
George B. Crook
R. B. Hayes
Fremont
W. H. Powell
Belleville
Ind
I. H. Duval
Abrahams Match Making and a Stormy Sunset
Two surveyors visit a dilapidated Southern mansion where Abram a roguish slave or servant flirts with Kate and Fannie Dalgreen sisters while the girls attend a Sunday school. After a staged chase Abram steers their buggy during a storm and the four youths seek shelter in a hut. The scene ends with a tense reunion at the ladies’ home.
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Abraham Lincoln
Jeff Davis Dalgreen
Abram
Frank Drayton
Frank
Homer
Homer Wilson
Kate
Fannie
Fanny
Missus
Mee
Northerners Win Brides as Auntie Converts to North
A Southern household erupts over social class and race as two young women refuse county life and choose Northerner lovers. Amid quarrels the sisters marry surveyors and head North, with Abram insisting on following. The auntie reconsiders and the family plans a united move.
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Frank
Homer
Abram
Charles M. Harger
Casting Plate Glass Process Described in Detail
The article explains casting tables 19 by 14 feet with 80 inch rollers, forming glass to thicknesses from rough nine sixteenths inch to polished six or seven sixteenths. It covers pouring, spreading, annealing, and the rough plate used for skylights, noting rapid, theatrical motion and the final polishing before leaving the plant.
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British Mercantile Gazette
The Tribes Under David October 6 1889 Sunday School Lesson
Central text from 2 Samuel 6 1 12 outlines Davids rise from Hebron to Jerusalem and his united rule over Israel. It notes Jerusalsm as capital, David s military expansion and religious revival, and the divine purpose behind his exaltation, with twofold lessons of outward triumph and inward grace.
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S. S
Sauls
David
Hebron
B. C
Israel
Jerusalem
Judah
Jesse
Bethlehem
Isnarn
Sacun Lert Iv
Davin
Japan
Saul
Abner
Ishbosheth
Mahanaim
Gad
Jordan
Hertps
Harp Praces
Frites
God
Benjamin
Jonathan
Rev. A. FP
Sehauffler
Vast Territory Felt In Dakota Postmaster Tale
A Dakota postmaster resigns and seeks a successor with help from Delegate Mathews. Mathews jokes that Dakota should split into two states to better represent distant towns, noting the Territory’s immense size comparable to New England, New York and Pennsylvania combined.
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Territory of
Dakota
Henry A. Drury
George A. Mathews
Congress
Boston
Springfield
Mass
Drury
Mathews
Tnside
Washington City
Brookings
North Dakota
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Ex-Senator Camden Recounts Forgetful Wedding Tale
West Virginia Senator Camden recalls being summoned from Washington to Parkersburg for his daughter's wedding to Lieutenant Spellman. He admits forgetting the event, relied on a telegram, and only learned who the groom was after a chance encounter. The tale ends with his apology to the groom.
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Camden
West Virginia
Washington
Parkersburg
Spellman
Lincoln Cabinets Dinner Goblet Mistake
During a state dinner under Lincoln, the wife of a Cabinet minister sat left of the President. Lincoln drank from her goblet with his left hand, prompting her to point out the mix up. He apologized and noted the goblets were as like as two peas.
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Lincoln
President
Henry
Chestnut
Pennsylvania
Too Much Expectation At The Ball Grounds
A street scene shows Mrs Moriarity hurrying her son to run a note to Captain Centerfield at the ball grounds. The merchant orders Jimmy to return in twenty minutes, hinting the request seeks an angelic favor.
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Merchant
Beyond Our Borders and Global Oddities
A collage of curiosities from 19th century headlines. Afotento’s cost rises to 1,125,000 in Sydney while exotic titles and island purchases debut. Berlin’s beauty regime lists vast powders and creams. England gears locomotives with no bells or headlights, and a German Emperor title defined. Berlin houses a relic museum of royal garters. A London footman faces fines for unlicensed male servants. Australia plans a vast 8,000 mile wire fence to separate states to fight rabbits, with a 25,000 pound annual pest bill and a 20,000 pound bounty for eradication.
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Sydney
W. Twerkr
Monte Cristo
Carlo Ginari
Florence
Edmond Dantes
Berlin
England
Germany
Prussia
Hohenzollern Museum
William I
Tur
Prince of Wales
London
New South Wales
Queensland
Australia
Stanford to Open in Fall 1890
The article notes that Stanford University in California may open in fall 1890. It mentions tax Women’s National Press Association planning to erect a statue to Mrs. R. B. Hayes in Washington and discusses various other snippets including geographic and cultural items.
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Stanford University
California
Tax Women’s
National Press Association
R. B. Hayes
Washington
Men
New Jersey
Great Britain
Humphrey's Island
Rierson Islands
Markets Across Cities Show Mixed Livestock and Grain Prices
New York report notes live stock values for natives, hogs, and sheep with wheat corn oats rye and flour values. Chicago features cattle and hog price ranges, with wheat, eggs, potatoes, lard, and dairy products listed, plus lumber and building material prices.
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New York
Chicago
Beeves
Lumbela
Esco Hi Ash
GSO
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New Mexico
Indian Territory
N. O. Picayune
North Carolina
Florida
Wichelt
Louisa M. Alcott
Frank E. Elwell
Concord
Free Public Library of
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New York City
Conemaugh
South Fork
Knights Templar
D. C
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Missouri River
Nebraska
Iss
Colorado Points
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Alexandria
Servia
Excelsior Springs
F. Cuanpier
Wabash Line
St. Louis
Emwrrrer Willram
The
Ethe Society
Weimar
Pasha
McVicker’s Theater
Messrs
Francis Gaillard
Fred Urban
John E. McWade
Fred Lennox
Northwest
Dr. Pierce
Cumberland Gap
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
the Gap
C. P. Armore
Louisville, Ky
Ireland
France
Russia
Oregon
Oregon Immigration Board
Portland
Legion
London and Paris
Carter
B. F. Johnson & Co
Richmond, Va
Hale
Pike
Tansili
Isaac Thompson
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore, Md
I. Guy Lewis
Fulton, Ark
Taté
Epps
James Epps & CO
Homeopathic Chemi
Ely
ELY Bros
Warren St. N.Y
P. H. Fitzgerald
India
Maccny
Moody & CO
Cincinnati
Uzorderers
McMullen
Ontario Sta
Enies
Sincuamton
Binghamton
Agres Land
Igor
Development CO
Mobile
Ala
J. N. Eberlexs
Mississipi
Mobile & Ohio
RLM
Pleast
G. W. Kring
ALG
BIG Money
Orant
Anwet
Neowise N Nil
SMIT
Tome & In
Dover
Ara Nolland
P.O
Phils
Sprague Girant U
Dearborn St
Miller
Ston C. Miller , CO
Avery
DE Tay
Tesney
Washington, D.C
Jaclive DE Justina CO
W.T. Plieseard
Attorony i Law
Woollington
D.C
Kool
Avithi
Bamale
Moores
Hood
Camerone
Tre Dept
Stonington, Ot
Best Dealers
Paris
W. Baker & CO
Dorchester
Joseph H.hunte
E. T. Hazevrine
Warren, Pa
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Seleratus
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