This story surfaced in 1886, nearly 50 years after it supposedly took place, in an article in the Pittsylvania (Virginia) Tribune
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I gave the kid working it a 20" long 1/2" square rod and some alum oxide grit cloth that he'd spray some adhesive on the back side, stick it to the rod and he'd use the rod like a violin bow to wipe across the thread protector spinning on the spindle - this one machine did all 20,000 thread protectors - and then i took it home to use on some furniture projects
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PRISONERS ARRIVE IN ALTON Source: Alton Telegraph, May 19, 1865 There were 48 prisoners of war arrived here last evening from Vicksburg on the Alton Packet May Bruner under guard of Lieutenant Charles Ambrooks, in command of a part of the 5th Colored U