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Like many physicians, I had contracted a strong taste for army life, and, disliking cavalry service, sought and obtained the position of First-Lieutenant in the Seventy-Ninth Indiana
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It should be remarked that Mr. Alexander had been informed in May, 1864, that he had been appointed First-Lieutenant in the 53d U.S.
The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details I. Windslow Ayer
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The other officers of the company were First-Lieutenant James A. Hardie, and afterward
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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Colonel William Gates commanded the post and regiment, with First-Lieutenant William
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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First-Lieutenant Olsen had been a dry goods clerk, who had gone into an officers 'training-camp.
Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923
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One morning, before dawn, the General telegraphed the Lieutenant-General to telegraph the Brigadier-General to telegraph the Colonel to telegraph the Lieutenant-Colonel to telegraph the Major to heliograph the Captain to telephone the First-Lieutenant to telephone the Second-Lieutenant to signal the Sergeant to tell the Corporal to command the private to charge!
A Book Without A Title George Jean Nathan 1920
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First-Lieutenant Joseph J. Reynolds was Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and a philosopher he was.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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First-Lieutenant and Brevet-Major George H. Thomas was instructor of Artillery and Cavalry, and Porter was his assistant.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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He died at Memphis, a First-Lieutenant of Engineers, on October
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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Pillow's brigade alone is near me at this depot of wounded, sick, and prisoners, and I have time only to give from him the names of First-Lieutenant F.B. Nelson and
General Scott Wright, Gen Marcus J 1893
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