Major General J.E.B. Stuart and a Confederate force of 1,800 cavalrymen have raided towns and supply depots along a 125-mile track through Pennsylvania and Maryland, successfully avoiding confrontations with thousands of Federal troops encamped there.

Stuart’s raiders traveled in a circuit around McClellan’s Army, entering Union territory to their west and retreating south, to safety, on their east.

Along the way, they seized fresh horses, Federal uniforms, hats, shoes and arms, cut telegraph wires, and gathered intelligence.

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This old man, photographed in the early 1920s, is hauling a wheelbarrow full of mutilated currency to the ‘death chamber’ at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, where it will be destroyed.

The photo caption says he has been doing this work for fifty years.

If this is correct, then he would have joined the Bureau in the 1870s, when it was still a young Treasury Department agency.

Congress created the Bureau in the early days of the Civil War, when it became clear that the federal government did not have enough gold and silver on hand to pay for the war.

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Fifty-two years before Trump and the others signed the Sharm El-Sheikh agreement, the four warring parties in Vietnam — the US, North and South Vietnam, and the Viet Cong — signed the Paris Peace Accords.

Each agreement, in their time, was hailed across the globe.

In the US, the 1973 agreement meant America’s military’s offensive campaign in Vietnam was over.

Americans held captive in North Vietnam — men like John McCain — would come home.

The draft ended.

Remaining US combat troops were withdrawn, with only military advisors and Marine guards for US installations remaining.

And the negotiators of the 1973 agreement, Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho, would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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As seasoned German soldiers, fresh from the Polish battlefield, replace reservists along the German defensive Western Wall, Hitler reiterated his claim that Western powers were fomenting a war in which the ‘invulnerable Reich’ and German peoples of Europe would stand united.

The Western Powers must choose, he said, between ‘a war of destruction’ or peace on his terms.

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In a fierce two-day battle, Union forces under General Rosecrans have defeated a rebel army seeking to regain control of Corinth, Mississippi, a vital rail hub used to supply Union armies in the Western theater.

During the first day of the fight, the rebel force penetrated the Union defensive line outside the city, forcing Union troops to retreat into Corinth.

The rebels renewed their assault early the next morning.

From a St. Louis reporter with Union sympathies:

‘The woods seemed alive with rebels,...[but then] our batteries opened a destructive fire on their exposed ranks, mowing them down like grass.

Their slaughter was frightful, but with unparalleled daring and recklessness they [still] pushed impetuously forward.

All seemed lost.

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Pay a dime and come inside the tent.

It’s your fantasy come true.

Beautiful girls wink and tease.

And you feel like such a man.

That was the pitch at the 1941 Vermont State Fair’s Girlie Show.

And they did a good business.

Who doesn’t like what that carnival barker is selling?

The mistake we make is thinking that people have changed since then.

Wake up and look around.

They haven’t.

Offer enticing illusions of power and manliness, and people will pay the dime to get inside that tent.

They know they’re not going home with any of those girls, but, for awhile, they can dream.

When you’re in that tent, anything seems possible.

So, no broad daylight, please!

Reality ruins everything.

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In March 1924, nineteen-year-old Madeline Blair, a prostitute who worked the streets of Manhattan under the name “Blackie,” befriended a group of sailors from the USS Arizona who were in town on shore leave.

Blackie told the sailors she dreamed of going to California and making it big in the movies, but she didn’t have any money for the trip.

So the sailors smuggled her onboard the Arizona, which was California bound.

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Hitler is said to be drafting an address to the Reichstag in which he will propose a ninety-day truce with Britain to negotiate terms for a permanent peace.

Should the British reject any such offer, it is expected that the war on the Western Front will escalate immediately.

David Lloyd George, the elder British statesman who served as Prime Minister during the First World War, caused a storm in the House of Commons yesterday when he urged Members to consider carefully any peace offer which Nazi Germany may soon put forth.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Lloyd George’s longtime political adversary, rejected the suggestion, warning that ‘mere assurances from the German government would not be accepted.’

Commentators noted that this public exchange might cause the world, including the US, now grappling with neutrality law changes, to view Britain as ‘weak-kneed’ in dealing with the Nazi threat.

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When the Civil War broke out in 1861, John Burns volunteered for service in the Union Army.

He was a combat veteran of the War of 1812 and claimed to have also served in 1846 during the Mexican-American War.

But he was almost 69, so the the Army rejected him.

But when the war came to his hometown of Gettysburg two years later, John got a his chance to serve.

It was July 1, 1863, the first day of the battle, and John could hear distant gunfire from his house.

He dressed in his very best, but very old, gentleman’s dress clothes and silk top hat, picked up his flintlock musket and powder horn, and left his house, determined to join the first Union outfit he encountered.

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President Lincoln arrived in Harper’s Ferry by special train from Washington yesterday.

After reviewing Federal troops, Lincoln visited the ruined railroad bridge and federal buildings destroyed three weeks ago by General Stonewall Jackson’s Confederate forces.

The fight at Harper’s Ferry opened General Lee’s Maryland campaign and resulted in the capture of arms and more than twelve thousand Federal troops.

Lincoln left Harper’s Ferry at noon today and traveled by horse and wagon to General McClellan’s headquarters at the Grove Farm near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

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