“… After the wounding of Maj. John Ashford, Capt. Murdoch McR. McLaughlin [Company K] was in command of the regiment.”[11] Thus, according to this account, the various companies of the 38th Regiment were known to be at the Battle of Manasses. Therefore, Calvin was very likely at ...
The Janus figure to which Burton referred — in Roman mythology, guardian of portals, and patron of beginnings and endings (“god and Patron of times and ages” according to John Bulwer in hisChironomiaof 1644), whose temple was never closed except in times of universal peace — was usually...
I cannot particularize at this distant day, but I well recollect that Major John Ashford), commanding the Thirty-eighth, behaved with great coolness and bravery. I had the misfortune to lose him on account of a wound in the leg. [10] “… After the wounding of Maj. John Ashford, Capt...
Generally, us old people want nothing more than to be back inside, back in the game, which makes us afraid to make enemies; but fuck it, I have lived and breathed through some of the best times this old beast rock’n’roll had to its name, and I owe it to these ...
It ultimately all stared with an air bombardment campaign: about 6 p.m. in Norfolk, VA. I was living there then; colleague from the office call me up and told me it was on. Stayed awake pretty much all night, watching/listening to John Holliman, Peter Arnett, and Bernard Shaw in Bag...