In the Enemy's Country Then and Now
A narrator in 1861 Virginia recalls a tense march with the Ninety-eighth, witnessing a wounded cavalryman and a hospitable enslaved woman who feeds him corn pone and yams. He endures hunger, damp heat, and dust while pondering bravery, duty, and the meaning of war as the column advances toward a charge.
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Virginia
United States
Mick McTwyny
Mick
Brainard
Confederacy
Clayne
Cloyne
Summerton
Leutenant
Visitor From Oregon Slams Charleston Exposition And City
An Oregon visitor critiqued Charleston’s society, markets, and historic pretensions calling the city insular and clannish. He notes chain gangs, stale politics, decaying infrastructure, and a failed 1902 exposition amid praise for northern openness. He appraises Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie and ends with a biography of John James Hemphill, a long-serving South Carolina lawyer and congressman.
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Charleston
Fort Sumter
Old Fort Moultrie
Fort Getty
Sullivan's Island
United States
Old Castle Pinckney
South
Webfoot
God
Oregon
Pettus Anecdotes Under Question From Washington Press
Washington writers cited two Pettus tales from the Civil War era and a daily routine claim. Senator Pettus of Alabama confirmed the Bacon anecdote about General Grant’s humane treatment and recalled his own escape and return to fighting. He denied any orderly habit of waking at 5 each morning, calling such claims a pack of lies.
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Jess
Summerton
Brainard
Hamilton
Clayne
Pat Callahan
Mick McTwyny
Mick
Pat Callain
Washington
Washington Post
Times
Alabama
Senator Bacon
Georgia
Philippines
General Grant
Mr. Pettus
Vicksburg
Grant
Pettus
Frank
Bacon
Nashville American
Elizabeth Henry tied to early Maryland governors and Carroll
Miss Elizabeth S. Henry, a great granddaughter of John Henry one of Maryland’s first governors, linked with Charles Carroll of Carrollton, noted as the first United States senator.
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Elizabeth S. Henry
John Henry
Maryland
Charles Carroll
Carrollton
United States
Postal Currency Proposal and Family Anecdotes
A commission drafts an administration bill creating postal checks up to one dollar issued by the postmaster general with fees, non negotiability after three months, nine cents in stamps allowed for face value, and book binding sold where stamps are sold. A separate Philadelphia Times anecdote recounts a family contraste during a strawberry festival with quips about labeled packages.
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Post Office Department
United States
C. D
Philadelphia Times
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Toumn Habberton
George Washington
John Habberton
Big Brown
Quartermaster’s
Satan
A. W. Miller
Portland Oregonian
Blue Bloods
Union
Switzerland
Alps
Rocky Mountains
Africa
South America
South Carolina
John James Hemphill
America
Ireland
Pennsylvania
Dickinson College
Carlisle
John Hemphill
Chester County
Mr. Hemphill
Nixon
King's Mountain
James
John
William Hemphill
Jefferson College
Texas
United States Senate
Chester
South Carolina College
Columbia
S. C
Hemphill
Congress
Fifth
District of Columbia
Committee
Senate
House
Democratic National Committee
Wade Hampton
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