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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 489

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orial this love for through the Civil War, and on their silken foldsare painted the names of the battles in whichthe regiment fought. One tattered old flag,carried in the Mexican war, bears the marksof thirty-five bullets received within twenty-fiveyards of the enemys fort. To some who witness the… … My great-grandfather lived to a remarkableage. The last time I saw him he looked as ifhis rosy face had been wrapped in white cotton-wool to preserve it, so fluffy and snowy were hisbeard and hair. It was when I went to visithim in Calabria that I saw him for the lasttime, and I was then a small…

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