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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1907
Page
7
A Georgia soldier returns from the Civil War but is killed by his father at the plantation gate mistaking him for a straggler. The father discovers the truth after guests arrive for a planned homecoming, and the boy is laid to rest wrapped in the flag he bled for.
In Hilary A. Herbert's Arlington graves speech the Civil War leaders are contrasted. Lee calls the boy to judge, insisting Scott was not a traitor but true to duty, while Lee remained faithful to his state.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger poem by Eleanor C. Donnelly honors the unnamed fallen of the Civil War. It laments missing mothers and sweethearts and praises the Unknown Dead buried in Arlington, calling for reverence and remembrance of those whose names remain unknown to all but God.
A New York World report reveals Captain Wirz of Andersonville once sheltered a Federal prisoner and her day old baby in a tent outside the stockade. The prisoner, in her husband’s clothes, had been moved by Wirz after discovery. The Ohioan couple, with infant, were later sent away.
A Civil War account details the July 1 1863 actions of the Twenty six North Carolina regiment at Gettysburg. The unit suffered heavy losses across Pettigrew and Brockenbroughs brigades with 216 men left unscathed at night and only eighty fit for duty after Pickett s charge near the Bloody Angle.
A Los Angeles Times piece recalls Stonewall Jackson as a beloved flanker whose simplicity and daring won his troops’ admiration. Outpost cheers crossed the Rapidan with both sides exchanging greetings and the cry Hurrah for Stonewall Jackson signaling hopeful unity.
The senate approved naming the conflict the civil war, not the war of the rebellion, amid a service pension bill for veterans. The legislation grants monthly pensions of 12 to 20 dollars based on age, and also extends benefits to Mexican War veterans through an amendment.
Lew Wallace recalls an army tent named Paradise at Shiloh. Confederates captured it and added Lost, Beauregard ordered camp furniture left, the Union retook the area the next day and the word Regained was added.
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