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"See anything peculiar in this situation?" He studied closely the faces of the two junior officers. Mullins offered no reply. "I think it peculiar that we have come up here, miles out of our way to the north, when our destination is considerably southwest of us," McGee offered. "Exactly!" Cowan replied, approvingly. "But there is a reason for it to mislead the enemy.
There was a brilliant Irishman, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, poet, historian and orator, who had been in his rash youth obliged to fly from Ireland to the United States on account of his connection with the rebellious party known as Young Ireland during the troubles of 1848.
Fascinated, McGee watched the plunge, climbing a little as he circled. He was three times an ace with two for good measure, seventeen victories in the air, but this was his first night flamer. It was far more spectacular than he could have imagined ... and somehow a little more unnerving.
He was a tory, and as such was the bitterest foe of the colonists, who were struggling for independence. The other, Colonel McGee, with a little more respectability of character, was equally fiendlike in exciting the Indians to the most revolting barbarities. Thus incited and sustained by British authority, the Indians kept all the settlers in Kentucky in constant alarm.
Archie gunners would not ordinarily leave off firing at any such stupid performance they would chuckle while they locked the breach on another shell, and forthwith blow that fellow into Kingdom Come. McGee was in high fettle as he streaked across the lines south of Belleau and laid a course for home.
Both women and children, as well as men, were employed in these works. After some months labor here, soon after Gallatin McGee became president, Matilda and I were removed to the Montgomery headquarters, where we remained until nearly Christmas. A few days before that time, Boss came to Montgomery and arranged for us to meet him in Mobile.
Old Dog Face himself. Hey! Dog Face ... Come here!" Such were the greetings of soldiers who hid their real feelings behind a mask of flippancy. McGee drew Larkin into an eddy of the milling throng where they could the better watch what Red termed "the review of the nations."
The gateman, who controls the airways of the skies, was taking his toll, and every one of the group that flew westward toward La Ferte, leaving three comrades behind, now more soberly considered the alarming casualty figures of eighty per cent per month and wondered! A month! It is such a little while. McGee Makes a Discovery
We found that on the evening before the five-inch gun battery and one unit of an ammunition column under Major McGee had gone on board. They had stowed the big guns in the lower hold, and they had enough lyddite stowed forward to insure a perfectly good explosion provided a submarine plugged us with a torpedo. Our adjutant and the steward soon had us in our cabins.
He finally had a little better success with Sir E. P. Taché, a veteran who had been a colleague of Baldwin, of Hincks, and of Macdonald. Taché virtually restored the Cartier-Macdonald government, taking in Foley and McGee from the other side. In less than three months, on June 14th, this government was defeated, and on the very day of its defeat relief came.
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