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...Bowen fought from First Manassas to Appomattox. He was "a Southern gentleman" who "worked in the fields all his life along with the rest of the hands. On weekdays except Saturdays he wore linsey-woolsey breeches and a loose blue shirt, open at the neck, and from sunrise to sundown, except for the hour of his nap, he would plow and hoe cotton, pull fodder, thin corn. . . . On Saturdays, the year round, he would put on a white shirt with a black shoestring tie and a black frock coat and black trousers and would drive in to the Courthouse...
They drill after sundown in small groups, grimly determined to pivot smartly on the command of "Squads right." They swallow their bitterest potion-barrack life, bunk to bunk-without a murmur on the invasion of their privacy. (One WAAC did use her weekend liberty two weeks after induction to take a large double room in the Fort Des Moines Hotel and sit happily alone in the middle of it.) For four hours a day, for a full day and a half at week's end the WAACs can do what they please. When the study hall closes...
...allowed little chance some no chance at all," wrote Odell Waller. "I accidentally fell and some good people tried to help me. Others did everything they could against me so the governor and the coats dont no the true facts. In my case I worked hard from sunup until sundown trying to make a living for my family and it ended in death for me. You take big people as the President, Governors, judge, their children dont never have to suffer. They has plenty of money. . . . The penitentiary all over the United States are fulp of people ho was pore...
...That the only restriction on bathing at Virginia Beach is that "bathing is not permitted after sundown...
...blue-&-white Argentine merchant flag floating free, ARGENTINA and a painted flag enormous on her flanks, the brand-new, U.S.-built, 12,500-ton tanker Victoria, Felix G. D. Salomone, Master, tanks blown full of Argentine linseed, was clipping along northbound 300 miles off Cape Hatteras. Just before sundown one day, a torpedo smacked into her 30 feet aft of amidships. Deck plates buckled, but her all-welded Albany hull stood up: the bulkheads of the tanks were unbreached...