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He claimed a sailor's privilege, and before a month had passed their marriage took place. Bonham obtained his post rank, and though he had not the talent of his friend, he ever proved himself an active efficient officer. Harry Verner quitted the service, finding that, notwithstanding his connections, his merits were not appreciated, and that he was not likely to obtain his promotion.
We had been cruising along the coast, and sometimes anchoring for about five weeks, when the captain of the sloop of war was promoted from this fleeting world to a better. I was, in consequence, appointed as her captain, being in my ninth year as lieutenant when I obtained my promotion. I parted company with the frigate shortly afterwards, and anchored off Accrah.
A very notable instance was that of the brothers Ewing, Hugh, Thomas, and Charles, sons of the eminent Thomas Ewing of Ohio, each of which attained through gradual promotion, fairly earned by meritorious service in the field, the rank of brigadier-general. They were all young, the eldest not being over thirty-five when he received his commission, the youngest under thirty.
"He has fought very bravely, and is now a colonel of dragoons, a great favourite with Bonaparte, and will be a general at the first promotion." As the colonel did not seem to desire a renewal of acquaintance with me, I did not intrude myself upon him.
E. W. ROBBINS, Promotion, April 30, 1864; Captain, Nov. 1, 1865. ASA CHILD, Promotion, Sept, 1865; Mastered out, &c. N. S. WHITE, Promotion, Sept, 1865; Captain, Nov. 18, 1865. F. S. GOODRICH, Promotion, Oct., 1865; Mustered out, &c. E. W. HYDE, Promotion, Oct 27, 1865; Mustered out, &c. HENRY WOOD, Promotion, Nov., 1865; Mustered out, &c. Second Lieutenants J. A. TROWBMDGE, N. Y. Vol.
For I had been to the hospital and had seen the child on the cot, a dark little thing, lying still in her pain, with the bewildered look of a wounded animal.... Not long after this incident of Mr. Weill's damage suit I obtained a more or less definite promotion by the departure of Larry Weed. He had suddenly developed a weakness of the lungs. Mr.
"We're going to get promotion, I know, Tom," said the middy. "No, no," said the ensign, dolefully, "it's a good wigging."
Then, in the midst of his gossip, the thing he had wanted to say all along came out: "We're pleased about your promotion," said he; and, blushing, shook Drake's hand again. Warmth kindled the boy's face, and next, with a sudden severity, he said: "You're keeping back something." The honest Brock looked blank, then labored in his memory. "Has the sorrel girl in Harney married you yet?" said Drake.
He probably never aspired beyond the regeneration and salvation of his own soul and that of his brother monks, and all the talk of some later historians about his far-reaching plans of a political and social regeneration of Europe, and the preservation and promotion of literature and art, find no support whatever in his life or in his rule.
His Majesty had entered the saloon without being heard, and had amused himself with listening to the conversation Colonel Gros had carried on with himself. Such were the circumstances of his promotion to the rank of general, and what is more to be a general in the guard. I have now arrived at the end of my list of military anecdotes.
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