Word: sutler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wr50te the U.S.'s first authoritative mariner's manual. Did he look like a rollicking seafarer or a pinch-faced accountant? How pretty was Charlotte Cushman, the American stage's most beguiling actress of the 1840s?Gold was first discovered in California at Sutler's Mill, but who was this German-born idealist, John A. Sutter? And what was his appearance after the gold rush had, paradoxically enough, ruined...
...drew their pistols and ordered one of the youths to drop the broken beer bottle he was carrying. According to the cops, the bottle carrier answered by yelling, "Come and get it, coppers!" In the dust-up that followed, he slashed Patrolman Thomas De Sutter's face. De Sutler, who was also accidentally shot in the foot by his partner, Patrolman Raymond Howard, had to spend 23 days in the hospital...
...story is full of events, but little happens. Adam's foot keeps him out of the fighting, so he works for a sutler selling provisions to Union troops, and eventually fetches up on the fringes of the Battle of the Wilderness (1863). There is a violent episode, the sort Warren has written twenty times, in which two men are shown to have the mark of Cain: a Negro clerk has the brand of a deserter on his buttocks, and Adam's employer wears a highly symbolic money belt. And at the end there is an intertwinedness-of-guilt...