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Updated: May 20, 2025

He said in very plain language that the Fishers were not only not entitled to another cent, but that those children of many sorrows and acquainted with grief had been paid too much already. Therefore another interval of rest and silent ensued-an interval which lasted four years viz till 1858. The "right man in the right place" was then Secretary of War John B. Floyd, of peculiar renown!

Mark Twain - Sketches New and Old, Part 2.