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...Governor's Island, N. Y., the 16th Infantry marched in parade. Three soldiers reviewed the regiment. One was Charles P. Summerall, the second was Stanley Ford, the third was Louis F. de Fost. Mr. Summerall is Major General in command of the Second Corps Area. Mr. Ford is Colonel of the 16th. Soldier de Fost is a Private in Company D of the 16th...
...Eleventh Connecticut returned to the Tenth Louisiana Regiment (Tigers) the standard they had captured in the sanguinary affair of Cold Spring Harbor. Fraternization at New Orleans was rampant...
...Bryan has had an unusually active and stormy career. After only two terms as member of Congress he was nominated in the 1896 Democratic Convention for President. Like the late Theodore Roosvelt, Mr. Bryan raised a regiment of volunteers to serve in the Spanish War, and took the part of colonel. After being twice again nominated by his party he threw all his influence to Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 convention, securing the nomination of the latter over "Champ" Clark. As a reward for this service the "Great Commoner" was given the post of Secretary of State in Wilson...
Meanwhile the Army band passed in its gray uniforms with blue and white facings. There followed cavalry, infantry, a machine gun detachment, engineers, an Army Air squadron, three batteries of artillery, 32 tanks, mobile repair shops, 60 quartermaster trucks, a regiment of marines, a regiment of sailors, every group with a band in bright uniform. Last in line were the Governors of the states...
Meanwhile she had secured a divorce, and was married by the spirits to Colonel James H. Blood, Commander of the 6th Missouri Regiment, and President of the St. Louis Society of Spiritualists. Her ex-husband, Woodhull, then completely ruined, lived with them. This hurt her reputation...