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Mostly the natives liked what they saw of the Army in Alexandria, Dry Prong Natchitoches, along the dusty roads and at Camp Beauregard (where at night the clustered, lighted tents were like an incandescent half-orange). Military police had little to do. As many soldiers went to drugstores for malted milks as to honky-tonks for beer...
...April 18, six days after Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter, young Hay started a diary, hastily scrawled late at night, the most immature and most vivid writing he ever did. Much of the present selection was omitted from the privately printed edition of Hay's letters and diary published by his widow...
...again commanding troops in the field, shouldering his cane, marching off down the great hall to shoot himself dead in the back yard. Silliest shot: a ball at Connelly Hall immediately after the First Battle of Bull Run attended by President Davis and Generals Lee, Jackson and Beauregard...
...Ashland, Wis., Mrs. Dorothy Beauregard, an Indian of the Bad River Reservation, deserted her eleven children as a result of a love charm exercised over her by Indian Bobidosh Cederroot. John J. Teepee and 23 other Indians filed a petition with Judge G. N. Risjord asking clemency for Mrs. Beauregard, stating that she loved her husband & eleven children, that she was not responsible for deserting them, that the love charm was infallible, that it had been procured from a medicine man, that real Indian medicine men had "almost supernatural powers." Judge Risjord gave Mrs. Beauregard & Mr. Cederroot a year each...
...editor cut his Race Week story to tatters, with Damaris avoiding him and Holcombe forcing him into a duel. Peter felt his story was over. But the end was not yet: he quit his job, survived the duel, married Damaris. Action cured him of doubt: by the time Beauregard's guns had opened on Fort Sumter Peter was in uniform too. After two sweet months with Damaris he rode off with his comrades to their gay cavalier war. One authentic incident of Sumters bloodless siege which Author Heyward has dug up may be news even to some Charlestonians...