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...black Mary was no widow. Her husband, who had gone home to enlist as a private in Lee's Battery of Virginia Light Artillery, was fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the flower of Southern chivalry against the invading hordes of Yankee "nigger lovers." With the exception of one court-martial and two months in a Federal prison camp in 1865, little is known of Lucian Fletcher's Civil War record. His amatory progress after Appomattox, however, was crystal clear...
...Scottish immigrant, David G. Blythe was born May 9, 1815 in a forest clearing near East Liverpool, Ohio. At 16 he was apprenticed to a Pittsburgh woodcarver, later moved on to New York to enlist in the Navy as ship's carpenter. As a boy he had been good at drawing funny likenesses of his neighbors. When his enlistment was up he drifted back to his home town, set up as an itinerant portrait painter. In those pre-camera days that meant a steady living, a free & easy life...
Frank Richards first heard about army life at the bottom of a Welsh coal mine, when his "buttie," an ex-soldier, held forth on the milk & honey that was India. It sounded livelier than a collier's future, so off went young Richards to enlist in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was younger than the age he gave the recruiting sergeant, but well set-up and handy with his dukes. He soon got the hang of barrack life, and was enjoying his beer and his "bit of skirt" with the best. He took his part in many...
...rapidly expanding Navy and air force. Admiral Somerville had done much better. Hunting likely young men throughout the Irish Free State who were in need of a job, he saw to it that dozens of them were able to make their way across St. George's Channel to enlist in the British Navy. In many a Dublin back room, in many a country pub, grim-faced young Irish republicans vowed to get even with Admiral Somerville...
...specific objectives of political action. A large number of students are interested in either the one or the other sort of objective, not both. The parliamentary meetings are disturbed by business of the committees, by attempts of committee members to propagate their programs among the other members, or to enlist the support of the whole club to a specific program. Those interested in political action hold their objectives so important that they either feel that their committee should direct the club or else form a separate organization. Else why was the Peace Society formed when the Liberal Club...