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I was again doing duty as a private soldier, having learned that my promotion to the position of corporal was only temporary. I had been what is called a "lance corpora," or a brevet corporal. It seemed hard, after tasting of the sweets of official position, to be returned to the ranks, but I had to take the bitter with the sweet, and a soldier must not kick.
Ministers are about as unfair as pettifoggers in their way of arguing, and not more than one in twenty of them is brave enough to tell the whole truth." "Such notions! such notions!" cried Mrs. Plausaby. And Cousin Isa Miss Isabel Marlay, I should say for she was only a cousin by brevet here joined valiant battle in favor of the clergy.
He enlisted in the army as a private in 1861, displayed great bravery at the battles of Donelson and Shiloh, and received rapid promotion to the rank of colonel. At the close of the war he received a commission as brigadier general by brevet. Weaver ran his first tilt in state politics in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in 1865.
Fabius was an apothecary, and received brevet rank I suppose from being the only medical practitioner about. At any rate, from the limited population of the vicinity, he was doubtless sufficient for its wants. This Mr.
Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, re-entered, and in a manner oppressed him; and then he thought, also, without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton.
Nevins had held a commission in a volunteer regiment in the defenses of Washington the last few months of the war, and that was found amply sufficient, when a prominent member of the committee on military affairs demanded it, to warrant the bestowal of a brevet for "gallant and meritorious services." Hence came the title of captain.
"I am cold and cross. I expect a brevet at least nothing less; but if Comstock or Duane reads the colonel's notes, I may get something else." "Have you had a fall, John? You are pretty dirty, and that horse with the queer name is dead lame. How did you come to grief?" "I had an adventure." "Really! What was it?" "Tell you another time it was a queer one. Here's Mr. Rivers."
M'Phun's congregation, I was gradually rising in the estimation of the widow and her friends, whom my constant attendance at meeting, and my very serious demeanor had so far impressed that very grave deliberation was held whether I should not be made an elder at the next brevet.
Colonel Woodburn ignored him in saying, "I think, Major Lindau " "High brifate; prefet gorporal," the old man interrupted, in rejection of the title. Hendricks laughed and said, with a glance of appreciation at Lindau, "Brevet corporal is good." Colonel Woodburn frowned a little, and passed over the joke. "I think Mr. Lindau is right.
"Man alive, how do you do? why, how are ye? very glad to see ye, indeed!" here interrupted the General himself, seizing my companion by the hand as he drew near, and bowing stiffly, but profoundly, as I was presented. However, the delightfully luminous conversation of Brevet Brigadier General John A. B. C. Smith soon completely dissipated this chagrin.
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