Laurel Run Woman Rides to Stop a Thief and a Shame
Betsy Baker escapes pursuit by moonlight on Blue Lightning to reach Laurel Run with a decoy money bag. She confronts Stanton Green, reveals her vow to work for John Baker and orders him to resign, then returns to confront the delay and meet Mr. Home, who reassures her that the money is safe.
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Home
San Francisco
Laurel Run
Betsy
Hooney
John Baker
Burnt’ Ridge
Damnation
Mr. Green
Burnt Ridge
Betsy Baker
Stanton Green
Hickory Hill
Charley
Laurel Hill
Mr. Home
Mrs. Baker
Grave on the hill remembered by Hattie Horner Louthan
Poetic lines lament a grave on a hill with prayers for the unknown to be known. The text invokes west wind and Father above, honoring the humble and the sleeping soldier, ending with the name Hattie Horner Louthan.
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Hattie Horner Louthan
A Child Shall Lead in Royton Adopts Unusual Family
Miss Mehitable Swett, a stern Royton shopkeeper, adopts ten year old Louetta after selecting the “homeliest girl” from an orphan asylum. Louetta, curious and starved for affection, asks if it would be nice to have dead relatives, prompting Mehitable to consider comforting but unsettling thoughts of a fenced circle of ancestors.
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Misachitable
Miss Mehitable
Mehitable Swett
Royton
Chrissy Boylston
Chrissy
Boylston Street
Mies Mehitable
Miss Mehitable Swett
Louetta Luella Swett
Mehitable
Boston
Louetta Luella
Lorietta
Loretta
Ies Mehita
Little Louetta Adopts Grandfathers in Royton Memorial
In Royton the child Louetta Luella adopts two Revolutionary War grandfathers, cleaning and marking their graves with lilacs and flowers. On Memorial Day she leads a roll call for Revolutionary dead, then civil war veterans, earning pride for her town. The scene contrasts simple local ceremony with grand city pageantry.
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Eathey
Mies
Louetta
Miss Mehitable
Louetta Swella
Edmunds
Royton
Fort Donelson
Gettysburg
Bunker Hill
Saratoga
Loretta
Grand Army Post
Jine
Silas Mason
Squire
Tom Carter
Loustta
Soldiers’ Monument
Captain Townsend
Louetta Luella
Brave Tenth Maine Sergeant Helps Foil Rebels at Gettysburg
On day two of Gettysburg the Twelfth corps moved right and the Tenth Maine held the extreme right. Captain Beardsley sent Henry Kallock, then a sergeant, on a night reconnaissance to verify enemy positions near Culp's Hill. His report prompted Meade to shift Williams back, contributing to the eventual Union victory as Kal lock earned promotion to captain by war’s end.
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Twelfth Corps
Williams
Meade
Tenth Maine
Culp’s Hill
Army of the Potomac
Slocum
Beardsley
Henry Kallock
Kallock
General Williams
Gettysburg
The Rock of Chickamauga and the Civil War Generals
A historic note recalls the 1855 reorganization of the U S cavalry under secretary of war Jefferson Davis. It names key Second Regiment officers Albert Sidney Johnston Robert E Lee William J Hardee and George H Thomas with Thomas the sole Western general to stay loyal to the Union and earn the title Rock of Chickamauga.
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Chickamauga
Jefferson Davis
Cavalry Service
Army
Albert Sidney Johnston
Robert E. Lee
William J. Hardee
George H. Thomas
Rock
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
We Cannot Forget Our Heroes and American Founders
A patriotic reflection on courage under fire and the enduring national colors on battlefields. The piece honors soldiers who sacrifice for country, cites scenes from Sumter to Appomattox, and urges remembrance of founders and defenders from Plymouth Rock to New Orleans and beyond.
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Fair Plains
Xerxes
Alexander
Napoleon
Plymouth Rock
New Orleans
Sumter
Appomattox
Sherman
Sheridan
Grant
Union
Washington
H. B. Long
Flowers and remembrance mark a nation’s memorial day
In 1862 four ladies decorated Arlington Heights graves, 1864 Congress made it a holiday, and now national cemeteries are decorated with the unknown grave sought. The custom is beloved as flowers symbolize love and resurrection, expressing nationwide reverence.
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Arlington Heights
Congress
Omaha World-Herald
Georgia farmer joins Twenty-fifth regiment in Civil War satire
A Georgia farmer volunteers with a long reaping hook saying he cannot fight but will “fine you” by cutting down Yankees if they hold still. He jokes about the rebels and questions how an older man can run from invaders as the quote from the Philadelphia Times explains.
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Laurel Run
Burnt
Seoreee
Kiata
Burnt Ridge Tunnel
Simmons
Burnt Ridge
Hoop la
Hickory Hill
Georgia
Philadelphia Times
Modesty and Womanly Suffering Cited as Womb Cause
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the remedy for uterine disorders and related pains. It claims male doctors misread cases and that the product has aided thousands over twenty years through a woman to woman approach.
Farmers urged to plant millet and sowed corn amid drought
The notice warns farmers of dry weather cutting hay and suggests planting millet or sowed corn to prevent winter feed shortages. Millet and Hungarian grass grow well locally and millet sells at 1.25 per bushel. It also advertises oil of tar for corn at 0.40 per quart and tree spraying supplies including Paris Green London Purple Hellebore and Blue Vitral at reasonable prices.
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London
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Siegfried & CO
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Main St
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