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Title: Papers in Illinois history and transactions
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Illinois State Historical Society. 1n Illinois State Historical Society. Transactions. 1n
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Publisher: Springfield
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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r. Newman was always defending Grant andall the skulduggery of his administration.®^ It was Dr. Newman, also,who was at the deathbed of General Logan,^^ as he had been in constantattendance at the deathbed of his chief. General Grant. It is very interesting, if not significant, that this minister, Dr.Newman, afterwards Bishop Newman, should have had such close per-sonal relationships with these two public men, both of whom playedsuch an important role in the reconstruction of the Southern States. As suggested at the outstart, this paper is simply meant to besuggestive, rather than conclusive, though I am convinced that thelines of investigation here indicated so imperfectly, would yield, iffollowed, direct clarification to the period under consideration, as wellas illuminating and interesting sidelights. 68 General Grants Last Days, by Geo. F. Shrady, M.D., Century, June, 1908, p. 276.6 9 Ibid. 60 Reminiscences of a Soldiers Wife. By Mrs. John A. Logan, pp. 369-370.«i Ibid., p. 430.
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95 DESTRUCTION OF KASKASKIA BY THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. (By J. H. BuRNHAM, Bloomingtou.) Historical societies generally confine their efforts to tlie preservationof the records of community development, but in some rare instancesMother Nature has violently taken it upon herself to ruin her ownhandiwork, such as happened when the mighty Mississippi River movedits bed from its old-time course and in spite of engineering obstructions,wandered away in a far different direction, causing the destruction ofhundreds of acres of valuable lands, together with the well known andimportant historical town of Kaskaskia. Other rivers have been knownto wander away from their ancient courses. Chinese records tell us thatthe Yellow Eiver changed its course nine times in twenty-five centuries,and that in 1851 to 1853, it went hundreds of miles across the country,abandoning the old channel and making a new mouth to the sea, fivehundred miles distant from its former outlet. We have nothing on ourcontinent t

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