Humorous Departed and Oddities From The Old Cumberland
A collection of light anecdotes from Maine and beyond. Abner handles town funerals with humor and blunt honesty. A Chicago courtroom exchange reveals deadpan wit about a quarrelsome neighbor. A Glasgow tramroom tale features a laughing Irish passenger and a clergyman. A New Mexico delegate recalls frontier dining wit and a church prayer misfire.
Rock Hill News and Notes From Contemporaries
Local items report Peter O'Thrie injured jumping from a moving train near Charlotte with a facial gash. Rock Hill prepares for a Standard Drug and Manufacturing company charter with capital of 10000 and new building expansion. Community weddings, rural delivery routes, and county board meetings are detailed along with regional notices.
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Rock Hill
Columbia Record
William Banks
South
South Carolina
M. H. Sandifer
Standard Drug and Manufacturing Company
Messrs. Sandifer
A. J. Evans
C. M. Kuykendal
Campbell
Messrs
Sandifer
Evans and
Kuykendal
Standard Company
Mary Joe
J. R. Witherspoon
Yorkville
W. J. Roddey
I. B. Dunlap
Clarence Glenn
George W. Williams
W. M. Dunlap
St. Matthews
Georgia Charlton
Savannah
Ophelia Davidson
Annie Watson
Annie Witherspoon
Helen Tompkins
Eula Lowry
Sadie Allison
J. B. Gaston
R. J. Lindsay
J. H. Beckham
J. H. Foster
John Crawford
Lancaster
Harvey, Witherspoon
T. W. McFadden
G. B. Sandifer
J. M. Crawford
McFadden
Mr. Holly
Crawford
Bend of the River
India Hook
Newport
Major Dunlop and the 12th South Carolina at Gettysburg
The article recounts Major William Simpson Dunlop of York County South Carolina and his Civil War service. It traces his family history his rise from planter to Confederate officer and his leadership of Company B and K of the 12th South Carolina Infantry and McGowan's Brigade from Hilton Head to Gettysburg highlighting his decisive actions at Seminary Ridge and the bayonet assault that helped break Union lines. It notes his later clerical and Presbyterian roles in Arkansas and his long-standing church service.
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Lantern
Martha N. Feemster
Olive
E. D. Wilks
Baton Rouge
J. J. Wylie
BE. Finley
Wylie
Purity Church
Delta Farm
Wellridge Post
J. J. Hemphill
Cherokee County
Donalds
Caroline Dickson Timmons
Frank A. Drennan
Claussen
J. G. L. White
Charleston
Chester
C. E. Fant
Sarah
Mary Shurley
W. C. Wolfe
South Carolina
Bigham
Jas. Hemphil
J. M. Caldwell
Mayo McKeown
Jas. S. McKeown
William Simpson Dunlop
Little Rock
Ark
York County
Rock Hill
Arkansas
Monroe County
Major Dunlop
A McFadden
McFadden
William Dunlop
Catawba River
Susan Adkins
Catawba
Landsford
Nationford
Elizabeth Steele McFadden
Isaac McFadden
Dunlops
Jane Patton
Nancy Greer
Steele Creek
North Carolina
McFaddens
Old Hopewell
Synod of Arkansas
Mary S. Davies
J. Leroy Davies
Synod of
William B. Davies
John B. Davies
Dunlop
Davies
Buford
Tarleton
the Waxhaws
Samuel B. Wilson
Synod of Virginia
Presbyterian Church of
Fredericksburg
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond Va
Samuel W. Davies
Fayetteville
J. Y. K. Belk
James A. Davies
James R. Baird
Old Pleasant Hill Academy
York
46Th
Hardee
Fort Sumter
Campbell Rifles
South Carolina Volunteer Infantry
Leutenant
Lightwood Knot Springs
Columbia
Port Ples Harbor
Col. Barnes
Bay Point
Jones
Huron Head
R. G. M. Dunnovant
Hilton Head
Fort Walker
Tatnall
Dupont
Wabash
Fort Beauregard
Drayton
Maxcy Gregg
Pocotaligo
Adam's Run
Green Pond
Savannah
Virginia
Guinea Station
Fredericksj Burg
McDowell
Richmond
Grege
Orr
Gaines's Mill
Cold Harbor
Savage Station
Frazier's Farm
Malvern Hill
Mechanicsville
Gaines’s Mill
Pennsylvania
Jackson
Pope
Cedar Mountain
Manassas
Chancellorsville
Libby
Gettysburg
Abner Perrin
Seminary Ridge
McGowan
William C. Haskell
Remarkable exploits of Lee's Sharpshooters told by Major Dunlop
The account recalls Captain Haskell falling at Gettysburg and the 1863-64 reorganization of the battalion. Captain Dunlop, brevetted, led until Sutherland Station where many officers and 300 men were captured. He later authored a 600 page history, Lee's Sharpshooters, praising the unit's prowess and loyalty under his command. May 26.
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Haskell
Gettysburg
Dunlop
Sutherland Station
Brunson
Appomattox
Lee
W. A. Dickson
Broyle’s
Anderson County
Carolina and North Western Railway Company merger note
Cesar Manthess Ry S A L and L C Yorkville extension links Gastonia Southern Ry to Lincolnton S A L Newton pickary Lone Ry KEIV G P Agent Chester SC outline of regional railway connections and agents in South Carolina
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Marion
Southern Railway
Chattanooga
Asheville
Blacksburg
Atlanta
Greenville
Spartanburg
Yorkville
Gastonia
Lenoir
Hock Hill
Rock Hill
Chester
Columbia
Catawba Junction
Monroe
Lancaster
Camden
N. W
Charleston
Sumter
Florence
Darlington
Wilmington
8. C
Interstate
Southern
Kingsville
A. Wi
Charlotte
E. HH. Shaw
Gen
Carolina & North-Western Railway Company
M. Ly
Lincolnton
Newton
Hickory
M. Ly. Cliffs
Cliffs
Cesar Manthess
L. C
Pickary Lone
Keiv
G. P
South Carolina
Photography Ad From S. W. Watson Gallery
An advertisement for photography styles at the gallery on Cleveland Avenue by S. W. Watson of Yorkville, South Carolina, inviting requests for the best finish.
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Cleveland Avenue
S. W. Watson
Yorkville
8. C
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New Mexico
Gaston
John Caldwell
Emmet Caldwell
I. A. Campbell
Florence Caldwell
John N. O'Farrell
Marsh Morrow
King's Mountain Military Academy
E. R. Harriman, Jr
Union
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Amanda Tate
Will Goforth
Police
Chain Gang
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Bunting
Goforth
King's Mountain
Ware
William L. Dunlop
McGow
Ulgers
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Blood Balmn Co
Eureka
Standard 01
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New Orleans
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M.hardwick
Washington
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District Pass
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Atlanta, Ga
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Yorkville, S.C
Georgia
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Eastern
ABS
Westville
Kershaw
Heath
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Riverside
Catawba J’o'n
Ik Hill
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