Songs of Civil War Reminiscences From Campfire Chorus
Veterans recall favorite war songs and home themes sung around campfires in the 1860s. A Confederate colonel and former prisoner of war discuss tunes like The Cottage by the Sea Lorena Marching Through Georgia and Maryland My Maryland, noting their lingering pull and shared memories.
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Kentucky
Aim
Himnnis
Camp Douglas
Love Sons
Lorena
Bunker Hill
Linkunes Land
Arkies
Georgia
Maryland
A Letter from Seward and Civil War Call for Aid
A fragment reports a discovery of a Letter from Secretary Seward written at the war’s start soliciting Italian patriot Garthald to lend his sword to the Union. It notes early Civil War leaders were American born and compares to Lafayette's aid in the Revolution. It also mentions William R. Smith, a Scotch-born supervisor of the botanic garden in Washington, nearing fifty years in federal service.
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Seward
Italy
Garthald
Lafayette
William R. Smith
Washington
Spy capture and execution at Little Rock during Civil War
In winter 1863-64 while Steele's army lay at Little Rock Arkansas a cavalry scouting party chased a spy who carried a pass with Steele's name. The spy was captured and hanged after implicating other officials. later the narrator was captured, imprisoned, and exchanged after brutal wartime ordeals.
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Steele
Little Rock
Ark
Leutenant
Gen. Steele
Stingerland
Ste
National Tribune
Stevie
Bill Whiteman
Whiteman
Capt. Whiteman
Suiler
Dodd
Mark's Mills
Camp Ford
Tex
Austin
Galveston
New Orleans
Dean's Kidney Pills Helped Virginia Merchant
Virginia merchant CL Wood of Fentress Norfolk Co Va suffered months with back pain kidney and bladder issues. After using Deans Kidney Pills he passed a stone and saw no further kidney trouble. Price 60 cents at dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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CL. Wood
Fentress
Norfolk Co
Mr. Wood
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New Monster Weapon for Dreadnought Vessels
The British admiralty plans to arm dreadnoughts with eight type 13.5 inch guns arranged to fire from either broadside. The gun will exceed 50 feet in length and a shell is calculated to pierce 20 inch Krupp steel armor at 3000 yards.
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Admiralty
Historic Mammoth Skeleton Found Near Sturuia
The Pall Mall Gazette notes miners near Sturuia uncovered a remarkably preserved mammoth remains. Excavation yielded teeth six feet long, jawbones vertebrae pieces of hide with hair, and other bones. The find is described as well preserved in situ.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Sturuia
Postum Helped Ailing Husband And Wife End Coffee Habit
A wife recounts how her husband fell seriously ill from coffee, with yellowing skin and failing kidneys, then quit coffee for Postum. He recovered, headaches eased, complexion cleared, and he became able to work again. The wife, once frail, gained weight and strength after switching.
Children see a contrast in wages blamed on education
A school lesson warns children that workers on a railway train earn far less than a superintendent, timekeeper, and engineer, noting education as the key difference. The vignette ties schooling to life prospects and future wages, urging focus on learning.
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Ohio
Focal School
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