Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good audience listened last night to Col. Douglas' lecture on the "Southern Volunteer." He considered the northern and southern soldier together from the beginning of the war to the end, showing the different conditions under which the Confederate enlisted and the unfailing disadvantages under which he fought with his northern adversary...
While the northern soldier was aided in material things he was also supported by the thought that his family was far away from harm, sure of aid in case of his death, while the Confederate was battling almost on his own hearth, his family and loved ones daily exposed to the shock of battle and defenceless at his death. The southerner, too, was not fighting for a government, but for his property, slaves and traditional honor...
...course, given under the auspices of the Historical Society, in Sanders. His subject, "The Southern Volunteer," gives promise of an interesting discourse, and those who heard the lecture, two years ago, on "The Northern Volunteer." by Col. Livermore, will be able to make valuable comparisons. A portrayal of the soldier of the South in the recent war is sure to be instructive to an assemblage of Northern people. New impressions will doubtless be received, and false impressions are likely to be corrected...
...Atlantic Monthly for February, in addition to the continued stories by Henry James, Mrs. Oliphant and Chas. Egbert Craddock, has articles on "Ministerial Responsibility and the Constitution" by A. D. Lowell, "An American Soldier in China" by A. A. Hayer, "A Rhapsody of Clouds," "A Half-Score New Novelists," and "John Brown." There is also a short story, "Salem Cupboards," by Eleanor Putnam, and among the several other poems a contribution entitled "The Homestead," by Whittier...
BIJOU THEATRE. - "A Tin Soldier...