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Showing posts with label Bowie Knives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bowie Knives. Show all posts
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers: The New Hampshire Patriot, November 17, 1838

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A Friend has shown us this week's number, and we see by it that poor Mr. Barton is yet at home. We wonder people should be so insensibl...
Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Gerrit Smith to the callers of the Kansas Convention at Syracuse, New York, May 31, 1856

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I wish the convention would go with me in voting slavery to death. But I tell you, gentlemen, with all my heart, that if the convention is ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Major Wilder Dwight to Elizabeth White Dwight, Monday Evening, June 2, 1862

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Williamsport, Maryland , Monday Evening, June 2, 1862. At last. Soon after my last words, Mr. Barnhardt, with corpulent and puffy ene...
Sunday, May 8, 2016

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Sunday, May 3, 1863

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I paid a long visit this morning to Mr Lynn the British Consul, who told me that he had great difficulty in communicating with the outer wo...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, September 15, 1861

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Birch River, Eighteen Miles North Of Summersville, Sunday, September 15, 1861. Dearest : — We are as happy and care-for-nothing [a] s...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The special boast of the rebels . . .

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. . . during the war, has been their ability to destroy their enemies in hand to hand combat.   They have constantly flattered themselves t...