Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE.-The April number of this monthly is just out. Devoted to army and navy affairs it is particularly interesting to men of a military turn of mind. It contains articles on the Egyptian campaign, by Gen. Stone; on Shiloh, by Gen. Jordon, late C. S. Army; on Gen. Gordon, etc. There are also two regular continued stories and two poems. An important and worthy feature of United Service is the editorial department, wherein are discussed the topics current in military affairs. Book notices and reviews close the number...
...first object that meets our eye is a black, battered beaten, Brimless beaver with the magic legend upon it, H. '85, Below the hat is suspended a bottle, a cologne bottle we conjecture. About the broken handles of the wreck of what once might have been a campaign torch are tied three filthy rags. What visions these symbols conjured up! "Is he, is he dead?" I murmur. "Oh, no, the faculty forbade-." Here we hear a smothered yelping as of some one in pain, but are reassured, the somewhat astonished, to hear that "it is only my pup that...
...medium of the press, there is nothing more deplorable than the tendency of that medium to emphasize and make capital out of personal attacks. Nothing is so strong a reminder in ordinary times of the execrable habit of mud-slinging and vilification, now so common a feature of campaign paper warfare. The articles which have appeared from time to time in the Herald, not only on the subject of boating but on the action of the faculty committee, have contained so many personal allusions of a disagreeable nature, that we feel called upon in the name of the students...
...Palfrey Gaines Mill, and Peninsular Campaign...
...Ropes, The Virginia Campaign...