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Updated: May 25, 2025
It was a seven-days' topic of talk at Sandy that Lieutenant Blakely, when acting Indian agent at the reservation, should have accepted the services of this unpromising specimen as "striker."
Blakely replied, "I am not acquainted with any young lady of the name of Watson. Lucy Watson, the girl whom you met in the hall just now is my seamstress. If you wish to see her, I will send her down to you, though I do not generally allow my servants to receive their visitors here." "I shall be happy to see her wherever you please," was Edward Houstoun's very truthful reply. Mrs.
Sanders, Lynn, and Duane had heard the soldier stories in a dozen ways, and it stung them that their regimental comrade should so doggedly refuse to open his lips and give Blakely his due. It is not silence that usually hurts a man, it is speech; yet here was a case to the contrary.
He struck the right, left, and centre in quick succession, while his battery of Blakely guns thundered forth their messengers of death. "But all in vain! Kilpatrick's gallant men the heroes of Brandy Station met and hurled back each charge, while Randall's battery, ignoring entirely the Rebel guns, sent his canister and shells tearing through the heavy columns of the enemy.
The candle was in the midst of one of its most profane fits when Blakely, knocking the ashes from his pipe and addressing no one in particular, but giving breath, unconsciously as it were, to the result of his cogitations, observed that "it was considerable of a fizzle." "The 'on to Richmond' business?" "Yes."
Blakely hung his weight on a foot and, coughing behind his plump hand, bobbed his answer: "Steam's up, sir." Lounsbury had the centre of the floor. He kept it, reaching out to bring Dallas beside him. They stood while the others crowded up to give them well wishes and to tell them good-night. Last of all came David Bond. "My daughter, my son," he said, "God bless you!"
The loss on the "Avon" was ten killed and thirty-two wounded, while on the "Wasp" but three men were injured. Of all this the gallant Capt. Blakely was ignorant; and, indeed, it is probable that he never knew with whom he had fought his last battle.
Would it be possible for you to relieve me of some of these goods and pay me back next summer out of your garden? Also hope you can find room for a table, benches, and extra lumber on same terms. If you can do this, you will greatly oblige, "Yours very truly, "JAMES MADISON BLAKELY, "Sutler, Fort Brannon, Dakota Terr. "P. S. Enclosed find samples which please keep if satisfactory.
Schofield and Margaret which indicated that Mr. Blakely had formed the habit of calling frequently at the house. This was a brilliantly handsome young man; indeed, his face was so beautiful that even Penrod was able to perceive something about it which might be explicably pleasing at least to women. And Penrod remembered that, on the last evening before Mr.
Blakely had found no sport at bug-hunting and had fallen into a doze while waiting for winged insects, and when he woke it was to make a startling discovery his beautiful Geneva watch had disappeared from one pocket and a flat note case, carried in an inner breast pocket of his white duck blouse, and containing about one hundred dollars, was also gone.
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