The Banjo Maid and the Last Confederate Hero
In a spring 1865 Washington hospital tale, Elsie Stoneman, a banjo playing nurse, helps a dying Confederate officer and a Southern widow plead with President Lincoln. Lincoln pardons the condemned boy after hearing a mother’s heartfelt plea, revealing his mercy and resolve to spare life.
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White House
Sumter
Brooklyn
Bull Run
University of Hell
Republic
Union
Doctor Barnes
Lincoln
Lee
Elsie
Richmond
Phil
Petersburg
Doubleday, Page & Co
Virginia
Stanton
Congress
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Poland
Washington
Gabriel
Patent Office
Ben Cameron
Johnny Booker
M’'am
Esle
Cameron
South Carolina
Jesus
Mama
Piedmont
Sherman
Jake
Aleck
Lenoir
Cindy
Margaret
Mrs. Cameron
Elsie Stoneman
Austin Stoneman
Ben
Jou
Phil Stoneman
Pennsylvania
Jeb Stuart
Stuart
Executive Mansion
White Palace
Judgment House
Africa
Gettysburg
Chancellorsville
Kentucky
Japanese naval salvage boosts Mikado fleet in late war
The Scientific American lauds the Japanese salvage of sunken Russian warships at Chemulpo and Port Arthur as one of the war’s most astonishing feats. It notes vessels raised despite heavy damage and mine detonations, expanding Japan’s battleship count to about a dozen with future additions. The piece also contrasts costs of repair versus building new ships.
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Chemulpo
Port Arthur
Scientific American
Nogl
Sea of Japan
Senlavin
Ppraxin
England
New York Evening Post
Ocean trade and cotton exports at Charleston 1904
In 1904 Charlestons port handled rising trade with cotton worth $2,300,172 exported chiefly to Germany while all other imports were $30,503. The Manhattan fire incident tested Charleston entries with a 26 foot channel depth and final harbor depths ranged 26 to 30 feet. Cotton fields dominated by Texas Georgia Mississippi Alabama Louisiana supplied vast output and Southern ports like Savannah and New Orleans shipped three quarters of exports.
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W. W. Price
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Charleston
Germany
Southern Railway
Ashley
Cooper Rivers
Atlantic Seaboard
Manhattan
New Orleans
Bremen
Atlantic
Norfolk
Newport News
Savannah
Pensacola
Mobile
Galveston
Wilmington
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Mississippi
Georgia
United States
Alabama
South Carolina
Louisiana
Brunswick
North Carolina
Virginia
Memphis
Tennessee
Arkansas
St. Louis
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Gulf
South Atlantic
North Atlantic
Rural Route Service expands in South Carolina
South Carolina expands free rural delivery with 516 routes now in operation, up from 476 on June 30, 1905, reflecting 42 additional routes. Of 1,160 petitions filed statewide, 501 were adversely reported, and 143 petitions remain to be considered. District breakdown shows 71 referrals in the first district with 45 adverse, and 103 referrals in the second district with 43 adverse.
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Department
United States
South Carolina
Congress
Post Office Department
Chinese coolies labor trial at Ashley Hall plantation
W C Kennerty of Ashley Hall begins a test with seven Chinese laborers from New York to work in fields after laundry jobs. The plan is to compare cost and productivity against local Black labor, with observations to guide other planters. The workers live well, learn quickly, and show steady, inexpensive effort, sparking statewide interest.
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W. C. Kennerty
Ashley Hall
St. Andrew's Parish
New York
Kennerty
New York City
Evening Post
Market Street
Watson
Europe
Charleston
Celestial Empire
South Carolina
South
Ashley River
Charleston Post
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Massachusetts
Cotton and Commerce
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