Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 353
rt Ninerelating to the mili-tary company of the boys, it is told that thoseyoung heroes had a standard presented to them.Now this actually happened. Our boys com-pany was called The Hancock Cadets, thecounty in which our town was situated beingHancock. The name of the town is Castine,not Fairport… … We were armed with lances ; a slender rod tippedwith a tin lance-head, and painted of a mahoganycolor, being the nearest we could get to a realweapon. And we thought them very fine indeed.But we must have a banner. The big sisters ofseveral of the boys in The Hancock Cadets madefor us a flag with a…
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