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...Civil War days, citizens wandered freely through the first-floor rooms, snipping swatches from the upholstery as souvenirs. On the eve of Lincoln's second inauguration, his bodyguard observed that the public parlors looked "as if a regiment of rebel troops had been quartered there-with permission to forage." Ulysses S. Grant redecorated in garish Mississippi Riverboat Victorian, with a great profusion of potted palms and gaslight globes...
...characters on both sides of the war, with care for minor historical detail, and with absolute fidelity to the sentimental tradition. His chief English hero, rich and handsome Captain Turnbull, observes the battles as a headquarters officer while musing on women and love, is posted back to his cavalry regiment in disgrace when he dares protest the scorched-earth policy. Turnbull's London mistress, a tart-of-gold he had rescued from white slavery, follows him to Africa by volunteering to nurse the wounded: "She was the one the worst cases asked...
...military demarcation line that divides Korea into Communist north and U.S.-supported south, they hid beside a road some six miles from the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom. At 5:30 a.m., a Jeep bounced along the rutted road carrying three U.S. enlisted men of the 9th Cavalry Regiment, bound for an observation point on a nearby hill. They never made it. The North Koreans blasted the Jeep from the road with a shower of grenades. Pfc Charles Dessart, 19, of Drexel Hill, Pa., and Private David Seiler, 24, of Theresa, Wis., were killed; Pfc William Foster, 26, of Baltimore...
Your statement that Baron Munchhausen was a fiction [July 19] is untrue. Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Baron von Munchhausen was born on May 11, 1720. He was a page at the court of Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig, later served as lieutenant in Riga and advanced to captain in the regiment of Peter III of Russia in 1750. He was a great soldier, hunter and teller of tales. He died on Feb. 22, 1797. He is buried in Boden-werder, which to this day calls itself the "Munchhausen Stadt...
...statement that Lincoln refused bodyguards [May 10] is not entirely accurate. At least up to May 1863, my great-grandfather, Captain David Vincent Derickson, was in command of Company K, 150th Infantry Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers (the "Bucktails") and served as his personal bodyguard...