Battle of Mansfield, April 8, 1864, Walker’s Texas Division Campaign Map, detail

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Library of Congress
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, November 21, 2009.

This map shows the location of this battle in relation to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Image type
map
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Library of Congress Geography and Maps Division
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
Campaign map of Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, showing all the battle fields and also the marches of Walker's Division. [1861-65] Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1871 by E. H. Cushing. Engraved, printed and manufactured by G. W. & C. B. Colton & Co., New York.
Source citation
Library of Congress Geography and Maps Division
Source note
Cropped from the larger original map, also available here.

Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

Danish Royal Palace at Frederiksborg gutted by fire

The Frederiksborg Palace at Hillerod in Denmark was an Inigo Jones-designed seventeenth century residence of Danish kings about five miles from Copenhagen.  On the night of December 17-18, 1859, with King Frederick VII asleep there, the palace was largely gutted by fire.  No-one was hurt and the building was restored. It now houses the Museum of National History.  (By John Osborne)
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Canada's Grand Trunk Railway links Montreal with Detroit

The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, founded in 1853 to link the towns of Ontario and Quebec, leased an extension of line connecting Port Huron with Detroit, Michigan and opened service.  This meant that the railroad could transport passengers from Montreal, over the new Victoria Bridge and via a ferry service to Port Huron, to the Detroit terminus of the Michigan Central Railroad.  (By John Osborne) 
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Priscilla Stoker, Gravestone, detail

Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, November 20, 2009.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Texas Cemeteries Project
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Priscilla E Stoker
Source citation
Shipp Family Cemetery, Texas Cemeteries Project, http://www.txgenes.com/TxUpshur/Cemetery/ShippFamilyCem.html
Source note
Pictures were taken September 21, 2007 by Etta Withers & Elaine Martin.

Cropped from the larger original image, also available here.

Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

Priscilla Stoker, Gravestone

Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, November 20, 2009.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Texas Cemeteries Project
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Priscilla E Stoker
Source citation
Shipp Family Cemetery, Texas Cemeteries Project, http://www.txgenes.com/TxUpshur/Cemetery/ShippFamilyCem.html
Source note
Pictures were taken September 21, 2007 by Etta Withers & Elaine Martin.

Little Rock, Arkansas, 1887, zoomable

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Library of Congress
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, November 20, 2009.
Image type
map
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Library of Congress Geography and Maps Division
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
Perspective map of the city of Little Rock, Ark., State capital of Arkansas, county seat of Pulaski County. 1887. Beck & Pauli Lith. Co.
Source citation
Library of Congress Geography and Maps Division
Source note
Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

William Stoker, detail

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Library of Congress
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, November 17, 2009.
Image type
drawing
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Rebel pickets dead, in Fredericksburg. Pontoon bridge, Union batteries firing on the rebel works back of the city. From the hill in the background of picture
Source citation
Morgan Collection of Civil War Drawings, Prints and Photograph Division, Library of Congress
Source note
Artist: Alfred R. Ward

Cropped from the larger original image, also available here.

William Stoker’s family moves to Troup County, Georgia

While William Stoker was born in Chambers County, Alabama, his family moved at some point before 1850 to western Georgia. Thomas C. Evans, the assistant Marshal for Troup County, noted on September 11, 1850 that “Elisha W.” Stoker lived with his mother Rebecca, two brothers, three step-brothers and sisters. Arnold Stoker, William’s father, had died in 1841 and his step-father, Thomas McKissack, had apparently moved out at some point earlier. (By Don Sailer)
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Troup County, Georgia, 1850 United States Census, detail

Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, November 20, 2009.
Image type
document
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Ancestry.com
Permission to use?
Public
Source citation
Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, National Archives Microfilm Publication M432.
Source note
Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

Cropped from the larger original image.
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