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Updated: June 27, 2025
Yet mention is not made of the fact that my report literally copies that of the division commander, who himself selected the regiments for the charge! The "Ohioan" had soon gone west again with his division, and was probably fair game.
Captain Lane was amazed to find their friends led by the young Ohioan, whom he had entertained at his house five years before. "Did you lose any of your men in the skirmish?" asked Captain Lane. "Two were wounded, none killed or missing. Has the Xenophon commenced the bombardment yet?" "No; but she will as soon as the wind shifts to bring her in."
Before six o'clock they were sometimes second-cabin passengers, whose barrier was then lifted for a little while to give them the freedom of the saloon promenade. From time to time he thought he would look up his Ohioan, and revive from a closer study of him his interest in the rare American who had never been to Europe.
March himself much preferred Major Eltwin to the general and his friends; he lived back in the talk of the Ohioan into his own younger years in Indiana, and he was amused and touched to find how much the mid-Western life seemed still the same as he had known. The conditions had changed, but not so much as they had changed in the East and the farther West.
I shall never forget the stares they gave us before we had time precipitately to retreat, nor the feeling of disgust and rebellion that came over me. This was heightened by the remark of a heavy, six-foot Ohioan with an infantile face and a genial manner. "I notice that they didn't invite us to sit down and have a bite," he said. "I call that kind of inhospitable."
And there is no country in Europe except Turkey, or Spain that isn't a better home for an honest man than the United States." The Ohioan had once before cleared his throat as if he were going to speak. Now, he leaned far enough forward to catch Triscoe's eye, and said, slowly and distinctly: "I don't know just what reason you have to feel as you do about the country.
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