Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Colonel Higginson will show how his two years of experience in command of the first regiment of freed slaves mustered in the United States service during the Civil War proved to him that "they are intensely human." He will explain that the points which separate the colored people from the whites are trivial as compared with those they have in common, and that it is by simply dealing with them as human beings that we shall do them and ourselves most justice...
...graduate of Dartmouth College in the class of 1885, and, besides his colonelcy, holds the position of United States Marshal in Massachusetts. In the Spanish war, he was in command of one of the battalions of the Sixth Massachusetts, which defeated and captured the entire "Alfonso XIII" regiment of Spain. This battalion was the only body of Massachusetts troops which saw active service...
...College with the class of 1857 and entering the Law School in 1858, was graduated after a year and a half of study, with the degree of LL.B. He practiced his profession until the summer of 1861, when he was commissioned captain of a company of the twenty-fourth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers...
...formerly in his service, but who is now employed by Bartholo, that Bartholo, proposes to marry Rosine on the next day against her will. Figaro advises Almaviva to present himself to Bartholo, disguised as a soldier and armed with a written order for lodging from the Colonel of a regiment which happens to be at Seville. Almaviva fails to obtain the lodging, but manages to give Rosine a note. After he has gone, Bartholo accuses Rosine of having received a note from him, and threatens to use force to procure it. Rosine denies having such a note, and pretends...
Officers have been appointed in the two academic military companies, and it has been decided to hold a competitive drill on Wednesday, April 22, in the Second Regiment Armory. There will be a company drill for a flag and an individual drill for gold and sliver medals...