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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1862., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 2 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 4 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Strange and yet true. (search)
(but it is only report) dead." "He is dead," said Mrs. D--, quietly. "He died this morning." "You have a telegram?" "You shall hear." And Mrs. D — told her story to the wondering friends. As quickly as news could reach Brighton she received intimation of Mr. D--'s death at the hour of his appearance. A singular and suggestive statement is, that the scene witnessed by Mrs. D — at Brighton was being enacted in the death-chamber of Mr. W. D--, hundreds of miles distaBrighton was being enacted in the death-chamber of Mr. W. D--, hundreds of miles distant. His mind wandered somewhat as the end drew near, but perpetually returned to the subject of the unhappy lawsuit. Mistaking his sister for Mrs. D--, he addressed to her the most fervent entreaties for pardon, avowing his bitter regret, condemning his own injustice and covetousness, and declaring that he could not die in peace without her forgiveness. Three times the dying man raised his hands in the manner she had witnessed, and so expired. One morning, some years since, the lady of a
The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
re. You may fancy how these things annoy me. But I have nothing but annoyance now, though people here say there is no chance of another battle on the Potomac before next spring. Outrage and just punishment in Maryland. A letter from a correspondent at Denton, Maryland, gives the details of a terrible tragedy enacted at that place on Saturday last. A mulatto man named Jim Wilson had outraged and murdered a little daughter of Edgar Plummer, about eleven years of age, residing near Brighton, Caroline county, meeting her in the woods on her way from school. The perpetrator of this terrible outrage was arrested, confessed the deed, and committed to the Denton jail. The people of the surrounding country flocked to the town, and broke open the jail, took out the prisoner, hung him to a tree, fired sixteen ballets into the body, dragged it through the streets attached to the rope, cut it up, burned it, and concluded the ceremony by giving three cheers for Stonewall Jackson. The