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...enough of trail tours? The Black heritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th Regiment Memorial in Boston common. This monument honors the first regiment of black volunteers from the north to fight in the Civil war, as well as their colonel, Harvard College graduate Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Hollywood's portrayal, "Glory...
...enough of trail tours? The Black heritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th Regiment Memorial in Boston common...
From letters to the War Department, she reads that his company had been sent from Ohio to Fort Ellsworth in Virginia, not far from where she now sits. Seif landed in the hospital with an illness called camp fever; he never returned to his regiment. "When he came home, he looked like a dead boy," declared the affidavit of an Ohio friend. For years after the war, Seif wrote to Washington requesting a pension increase, complaining of neuralgia, lumbago, catarrh, headaches and heart trouble. By 1927, the year he died, Seif was receiving $90 a month, an amount granted, according...
Fifteen minutes before the guns of the Western Front fell silent, Lieutenant Larry Austin '20 of the U.S. 28th Division and 109th Infantry Regiment commandeered a charge on a German machine-gun nest and was killed shielding his men from crossfire...
Anyone who saw The English Patient knows that return trips aren't always easy in the desert, and Augustin soon discovers that he has no more idea how to return to Jean-Michel then he does how to find the lost regiment. His heat-stroked, knock-kneed peregrinations around the desert land him into new trouble, especially when he steals water from a Bedouin maiden. The resultant man-hunt sends Augustin hiding in a deep crevasse in a large, barren plateau, but no sooner has he escaped their swords than he runs into a whole new set of daggers, this...