Sunday, November 2, 2014
Slave quarters to be rebuilt at Madison's Virginia home
Via Bill
Homes of slaves who served President James Madison at his Montpelier estate in Virginia will be rebuilt for the first time over the next five years, along with other refurbishments to the home of one of the nation's Founding Fathers, thanks to a $10 million gift announced Saturday.
Homes of slaves who served President James Madison at his Montpelier estate in Virginia will be rebuilt for the first time over the next five years, along with other refurbishments to the home of one of the nation's Founding Fathers, thanks to a $10 million gift announced Saturday.
David
Rubenstein, a leading Washington philanthropist and history buff,
pledged the $3.5 million needed to rebuild the slave quarters next to
the mansion in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Another $6.5
million will be devoted to refurnishing parts of the home where Madison
drafted ideas that would become the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of
Rights.
After widow Dolley
Madison sold the estate in 1844, many family belongings were dispersed
or sold, leaving some rooms mostly empty of period furnishings after the
estate opened to visitors in 1987.
Now, curators hope to recover or
borrow artifacts from the fourth president's family life to bring the
estate back to life, said Montpelier Foundation President and CEO Kat
Imhoff.
More @ Yahoo
List of 134 Cities Where Violent, Criminal Illegal Aliens Were Sent After Release by Obama DHS
Via LH
According to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm of DHS, 36,007 criminal illegal aliens were released into the United States in 2013. Responding to a request by Sen. Chuck Grassley, ICE recently provided a list of raw ZIP codes -- not cities and states -- where criminal illegals, many convicted of violent offenses including murder, rape and kidnapping, have been dumped by the administration.
I wrote a small script to convert the ZIPs into cities and states, the results of which are below. Please make sure that your families, friends, colleagues and other acquaintances are aware of these locations. Better safe than sorry.
| NC | CHARLOTTE | 28212 |
| NC | CHARLOTTE | 28215 |
| NC | DURHAM | 27707 |
| NC | MOUNT PLEASANT | 28124 |
According to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm of DHS, 36,007 criminal illegal aliens were released into the United States in 2013. Responding to a request by Sen. Chuck Grassley, ICE recently provided a list of raw ZIP codes -- not cities and states -- where criminal illegals, many convicted of violent offenses including murder, rape and kidnapping, have been dumped by the administration.
I wrote a small script to convert the ZIPs into cities and states, the results of which are below. Please make sure that your families, friends, colleagues and other acquaintances are aware of these locations. Better safe than sorry.
More @ Doug Ross
My great, great grandfather on his Negro woman's snake bite
Via comment by Ray on "Healing the Sick and Wounded" -- The North Caroli...
"Thanks for a very interesting report. I guess I am reminded of how much knowledge of our fauna we have lost. I don't think I could identify half of the barks, trees, & shrubs mentioned. However the knowledge of cleanliness alone offsets this loss."
For the benefit of the public I wish you to publish the following. A few days past (in the morning) one of my Negro women was badly bitten by a poplar leaf highland moccasin snake. She came to me while at breakfast evidently in great pain, with two small holes on the side of her left foot, the bloody water issuing therefrom. I immediately opened the holes with my lancet, to nearly the size of a common blood-letting orifice, to which I applied a composition of hartshorn, sweet oil and laudanum, with some other simple remedies. I then started in search of a weed I had heard recommended. I obtained this weed about 3 o'clock in the evening. At this time her foot was much swollen, and she appeared in much pain. I beat a part of the weed, gave her a table spoonful of the juice in a glass of milk, and bound the beaten weed to her foot. Before night her foot was assuaged and next morning she went to work without any complaint, entirely well.
It is my desire that every person should know this powerful antidote against snake poison. It is like throwing water on fire for efficacy. It is found in the woods, generally on the edge of swamps, creeks, and branches: grows up similar to the common garden plantain, though generally it has but two or three blades of leaves. The wide or upper part of the leaf is scalloped somewhat like the poplar leaf, and invariably has a nut or smooth round root at the surface of the earth, about the size of a red oak acorn; to the taste it is more bitter than quinine. Every family ought to keep it on hand; when dried it should be beaten and boiled in milk. It is my opinion, that no person would ever sustain any injury of consequence from a snake bite, if the juice of this weed could be given immediately; it will, however, cure if given afterwards in time.
Jos. Jno. Pippen
Edgecombe Co. N.C. Sept. 2, 1839
"Thanks for a very interesting report. I guess I am reminded of how much knowledge of our fauna we have lost. I don't think I could identify half of the barks, trees, & shrubs mentioned. However the knowledge of cleanliness alone offsets this loss."
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FOR THE TARBORO PRESS
Mr. Howard:
Mr. Howard:
For the benefit of the public I wish you to publish the following. A few days past (in the morning) one of my Negro women was badly bitten by a poplar leaf highland moccasin snake. She came to me while at breakfast evidently in great pain, with two small holes on the side of her left foot, the bloody water issuing therefrom. I immediately opened the holes with my lancet, to nearly the size of a common blood-letting orifice, to which I applied a composition of hartshorn, sweet oil and laudanum, with some other simple remedies. I then started in search of a weed I had heard recommended. I obtained this weed about 3 o'clock in the evening. At this time her foot was much swollen, and she appeared in much pain. I beat a part of the weed, gave her a table spoonful of the juice in a glass of milk, and bound the beaten weed to her foot. Before night her foot was assuaged and next morning she went to work without any complaint, entirely well.
It is my desire that every person should know this powerful antidote against snake poison. It is like throwing water on fire for efficacy. It is found in the woods, generally on the edge of swamps, creeks, and branches: grows up similar to the common garden plantain, though generally it has but two or three blades of leaves. The wide or upper part of the leaf is scalloped somewhat like the poplar leaf, and invariably has a nut or smooth round root at the surface of the earth, about the size of a red oak acorn; to the taste it is more bitter than quinine. Every family ought to keep it on hand; when dried it should be beaten and boiled in milk. It is my opinion, that no person would ever sustain any injury of consequence from a snake bite, if the juice of this weed could be given immediately; it will, however, cure if given afterwards in time.
Jos. Jno. Pippen
Edgecombe Co. N.C. Sept. 2, 1839
| (My G, G Grandfather) On His Negro Woman's Snake Bite |
"Healing the Sick and Wounded" -- The North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial
Added
to our recent “Healing the Sick and Wounded; The Medical Profession
During the War” webpage are excerpts from Brenda McKean’s superb account
of North Carolina civilians during the war. This two-volume set should
be on the bookshelf of every North Carolinian desiring an in-depth
study of the home front in wartime North Carolina. Read more at: http://www.ncwbts150.com/
“The
State had two so-called hospitals before the war, but not for ordinary
people. A small marine hospital for seamen was found in Wilmington and
Portsmouth. The Moravians had established a sick house in Salem in the
eighteenth century for their members.
Dr.
Charles E. Johnson opened the first military hospital in Raleigh in May
1861 know as the Fair Grounds Hospital. Large buildings were revamped
for hospital use to hold from two hundred to four hundred patients. The
Guion Hotel in the capital city [was] converted to hospital. Pettigrew
Hospital in Raleigh, built in 1864, was the only new building
constructed in Raleigh as a hospital [and it] would hold up to 588
beds. Hospital [Number] 4 in Wilmington, previously known as Seamen’s
Hospital . . . was considered the largest and best equipped in the
State. The convalescent hospital in [Little] Washington admitted its
patients in 1863.
Women
began making and storing hospital supplies such as bandages and
clothing before hospitals were established for the soldiers . . . [and]
Newspapers encouraged those at home to economize so that troops in the
field could be supplied.
At
the beginning of the war, convalescing soldiers became the nurses if
they were able to stand to rigors of medical work. Apparently, they were
not attune[d] to sanitary conditions because the people visiting the
areas commented on the filthy conditions present in these buildings.
Everyone knew a woman’s touch would clean up the place, and their tender
care would enhance the surroundings.
Medical
department authorities developed several medical facilities known as
general hospitals throughout the State. These were given numbers instead
of names. By the end of the war, fourteen general military hospitals
and seven wayside hospitals were identified. Every general hospital had
a surgeon in charge and one medical officer or a contract surgeon to
care for seventy to eighty ill soldiers. Usually, the ratio was
greater.
Wayside
hospitals were located next to the railroad depots (or in the depots)
for convenience in towns such as Tarboro,Greensboro, Salisbury,
Charlotte, Kittrell, Fayetteville, High Point, Wilson, Weldon and
Goldsboro. These wayside hospitals were equipped with refreshments and
clean bandages/bedding, etc. These small wayside institutions served an
important role and were invaluable for saving lives.
There
were instances when the sick and wounded soldier could not tolerate the
lengthy trip home or transfer to another hospital. Women would meet
these trains and remove the patient to the nearby temporary hospital or
to their homes. Schools, colleges, hotels, churches, warehouses, barns,
sheds and private homes caught the overflow of the wounded, especially
after battles. All the vacant hospitals in [Little] Washington were
used as hospitals to house sick soldiers early in the conflict.
The
above-mentioned hospitals were different from a field hospital, which
was located about one mile behind the battlefront. Dr. Thomas F. Wood
[of Wilmington] described in a letter home to his folks a division
hospital that was also made up of tents:
(Blood and War at My Doorstep, Brenda Chambers McKean, Xlibris, 2011, excerpts, pp. 113-115)
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