Rivalry to Respect: Two Cadet Aspirants in War Time
The account follows Bob Bryant and Billy Edwards from boyhood rivalries over a West Point cadetship to separate Civil War paths. Edwards wins appointment, marries Blossom Nathan, and rises to major. Bryant becomes a colonel in the volunteers, later serving in the regulars. Bryant and Edwards meet again at Gettysburg where both endure losses and honor fallen comrades.
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West Point
Army
United States Military Academy
Billy Edwards
Nathan
Bob Bryant
Young Edwards
Young Bryant
Blossom Nathan
Bryant
Edwards
Lieut
Col
Washington
Capt Bryant
Gettysburg
Cemetery Hil
Far West
Soldier's Love Reunites On Battlefield Grave
A veteran named William Ed carries a flag to a grave and pays tribute beside a white stone. Blossom Nathan, now a widow, recognizes him and learns the flag was blown away. The reunion sparks memory of their girlhood. They depart for a soldier's life together.
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Washington
Gettysburg
William ED
Nathan
Hope
When Columbia Crowns Her Dead Poem Fragment
Fragmentary verse recalls grief and memory as drums beat beneath tender skies. The lines hint at children in fields and talks of battles from youth, with scattered imagery of banners and sorrowful reflection.
Fragmented Ode to Victory and Memorial Silence
A damaged verse laments a nation’s battles and the absence of martial echoes. The speaker recalls heroism, laments lost voices, and invokes a resting nation as a quiet memorial to those fallen, through faded lines and disrupted phrasing.
Enlistment totals in Civil War armies noted
The Union Army enrolled 2,396,204 soldiers during the Civil War, a figure that cannot be precisely matched for the Confederate Army due to unreliable record keeping by the Confederate states.
Memorial Day Vision of Gen Logan's Great National Holiday
A speech reflecting on Memorial Day as conceived by Gen John A. Logan to honor fallen soldiers with graveside flowers each May. It traces the holiday's noble religious roots, then laments its drift into a mere public fête of parades, picnics, and noise, urged to preserve solemn memory.
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Fred. D. Grant
Hedes
John A. Logan
Gen. Logan
Soldier Mistook Violin Resin for Shaving Soap
A New Jersey veteran recounts Ed Morton, a quick fiddler, carrying his violin to camp. Charles Foster, his tent mate, mistook a resin for shaving soap and boasted of a cake he found, misreading Morton's resin as soap thus triggering a humorous mix up.
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Morton
Uae
Captain Hobson to Try New Political Scheme
Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson famed for Merrimac enters political arena with a plan to borrow government experts in road building soils cotton growing forestry and rural free delivery for a district tour with wife to lecture and demonstrate. The move aims to shake up science life departments and could inspire other representatives to seek similar use of officials.
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Hobson
Ashington
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Merrimac Fame
Scien Ufe
Agricultural Department
Post Office Department
Alabama
Washington
Congress
Bankhead
Millions in Congress Spending Rise in 1907 Session
A late report details total appropriations for the Fifty-ninth Congress. It notes increases in salaries for 16,454 employees, including the vice president, speaker, cabinet officers, 90 senators, 296 representatives and 24 staffers, with annual costs of about 2.95 million dollars. Public works contracts total around 67.9 million, including nearly 16 million for naval vessels. The largest single measure was 212.1 million for the post office, while army and pension bills stood at 75.6 million and 146.1 million respectively. Overall 1906 spending exceeded 1907 by about 41.2 million dollars.
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Additton
Congress
Post Office
Oval
Carnegie Laboratory to Build Volcano Factory
The Carnegie Institution funds a geophysical laboratory in Washington dedicated to high pressures and temperatures with aims to reproduce volcanic forces to study the earth’s interior. Prof Day cautions of risks, but hopes for new insights, while the 1000 foot from rail line site minimizes residential danger. The lab will use rock, quartz glass, and Portland cement puzzles as it begins operations next month.
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Washington
Geophysical Laboratory
Carnegie Institution
Arthur L. Day
The
New Geophysical Laboratory
Expres
Bulldog Pete Clears Morning Exercise at White House
Pete the White House terrier, chained overnight as punishment for work at the navy department, roamed the grounds in the early dawn. He engaged a larger dog in a brisk tussle, then backed off as the other canine outpaced him, retreating under the hedge with the guard’s timely intervention keeping Pete safe.
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Ete
White House
Pete
Secretary of the Interior
M. Jusserand
Rock Creek Park
Navy Department
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