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This young man was wholesome , cheerful , and beefy . His mind was almost wholly untainted by scholarship . His manners were Southern and his ambitions were few and easily satisfied . All he wanted to do at West Point was to get through ...
This young man was wholesome , cheerful , and beefy . His mind was almost wholly untainted by scholarship . His manners were Southern and his ambitions were few and easily satisfied . All he wanted to do at West Point was to get through ...
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OW we see our dusty young officer coming back from Mexico as a brevet captain , with favorable mention in the reports of his brigade and regimental commanders . But these commendations lacked the exclusiveness that carries distinction .
OW we see our dusty young officer coming back from Mexico as a brevet captain , with favorable mention in the reports of his brigade and regimental commanders . But these commendations lacked the exclusiveness that carries distinction .
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In the cool autumn months bevies of young girls , chaperoned by the wives of generals , fluttered through the cabins . They burst in on Meade , and had him bowing and scraping and asking anxiously for his young men : “ Colonel Lyman ...
In the cool autumn months bevies of young girls , chaperoned by the wives of generals , fluttered through the cabins . They burst in on Meade , and had him bowing and scraping and asking anxiously for his young men : “ Colonel Lyman ...
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CEAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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