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John Perry did two things on his seventy-fifth birthday. First he visited his wifes grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce and alien races willing to fight for them are common. Far from Earth, the war has gone on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. We fight to defend Earth from our new enemies and to stake our claim to planetary real estate. On Earth, the bulk of the resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Only those of retirement age can join the CDF; they want people who carry the skills from decades of living. CDF members are taken off Earth to serve two years at the front. If they survive, theyre given a generous homestead on hard-won colony planets, never to return to Earth. John Perry is taking that deal with only the vaguest idea what to expect.
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A compelling biography of an extraordinary man who lived, fought, and made his mark in two worlds--Indian and white.
The amazing and uncommon life of George Bent spanned one of the most exciting epochs in our nation's history. Born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife, George Bent was raised as a Cheyenne and, later, educated in white schools. He fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War and later became a Cheyenne warrior. A survivor of the horrific 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, he rode with the ferocious Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, and became a prominent interpreter and negotiator for whites and adviser to tribal leaders. He hobnobbed with frontier legends Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, and George Custer, and fought side-by-side with great Indian leaders. Always brushing against the edges of greatness, always in the center of controversy and danger, Bent was a survivor. Yet for all his adventures, accomplishments, and friendships, George Bent, the halfbreed, never found lasting happiness in either world, Indian or white.
Yet this man, in his final years, saved the memory of his people by sharing with historians the story of the fighting Cheyennes.
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A brilliant read.......2006-10-20
This is a brilliant study of George Bent, the son of William Bent and Owl Woman, a physical union of the American settler and the American Indian in the west during the 19th century. He was not necessarily a central figure but nevertheless is emblematic of an entire era. In a time when we have few sources and fewer books regarding the progeny of Indian-european unions, this serves as an important and fascinating book that looks into the two worlds and momentous events of Bent's life. He lived among those great men of the American west such as Buffulo Bill and Kit Carson as well as witnessed the destruction of the native-American way of life. As a dog soldier, or elite warrior, of the Cheyennes he saw the massacre of Black Kettle's people and the subsequent war between whites and Indians on the plains. He later lived to serve as translator to the slowly defeated tribes and ended his days as a teacher at an Indian school, witness to the passing of an era. This is a well written book that reads like fiction but serves as an important testimony. A fascinating story that anyone will enjoy but should truly be read by anyone who enjoys the American West in all its flavor.
Seth J. Frantzman
"Remarkable" Doesn't Quite Describe This Book!.......2005-10-26
When I moved to Santa Fe in 1983, I became fascinated with the history of this area and all things related to the Santa Fe trail. David Lavender wrote a great book on Bent's Fort that has always been a favorite of mine. Bent's Fort is a "living museum" in south eastern Colorado that is really worth visiting. When my friend loaned me his copy of Halfbreed, I was so impressed with its insight and easy reading that I bought two copies and sent one to another friend to enjoy (he did). I've read it three times now and will enjoy it again. I was moved by the authors' sensitivity of a true unsung hero who tried his best to preserve his knowledge of the Cheyenne oral traditions before they were forever lost. I will one day soon travel to the village of Colony, Oklahoma and visit his grave sight to pay homage to a great man that through this book, I have come to know and honor. I recomend this book for all who are looking for a good book to read.
A Unique and Important Life.......2005-05-02
George Bent was truly one-of-a-kind. Born the son of a wealthy and prominent White trader and a beautiful Cheyenne woman in 1843, he was raised half-White and half-Cheyenne. He was educated in the White man's world and served in the Confederate Army, but became a Cheyenne warrior when his tribe went to war with the United States, participating in 27 war parties. He later worked as an interpreter and a broker -- not always a good one -- between the Whites and the Cheyennes. Perhaps his more important role came late in life when he served as an informant to the historians and ethnologists studying the Cheyennes. That they are among the best documented, most admired and studied of all Indian tribes is largely attributable to Bent.
The authors have done an outstanding job in compiling the story of George Bent. This is a scholarly, well-researched, well-documented, book that is complex but reads easily and tells a fascinating tale of a man between two worlds and comfortable in neither. The characters of Western legend appear in the book: Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickock, George Custer, Phil Sheridan, and Buffalo Bill. Desperate forgotten battles between the Cheyennes and their White enemies are recalled and described. Perhaps the most interesting chapters of all describe the relationship between Bent and the scholars -- Hyde, Mooney, and Grinnell -- who used him as a resource to write their books. Bent had a burning interest in assuring that the story of the Cheyenne was recorded and remembered. He succeeded.
"Halfbreed" is a sad book as it describes the destruction by disease and war and massacre of a people and of Bent's own efforts to survive in a world that collapses around him. I don't know of any other book that delves so deeply and movingly into the world of the halfbreed. Bent deserves the recognition this book accords him almost a century after his death on the Cheyenne Reservation in Oklahoma.
Smallchief
Quest for balance.......2005-03-27
An imbibing read of George Bent's life as a halfbreed White/Cheyenne Indian from the mid-1800's to the early 1900's. Bent was the son of famed trader William Bent and his Cheyenne Indian wife Owl Woman. In later years he wanted to tell his story from the Indian point of view which makes this a captivating read. For years we have been exposed to thrashings of the Native Americans from the slanted and one-sided views of Hollywood, dime novels, etc. that we oftentimes forget that there was another side to the story.
George was raised among the Cheyenne Indians at Bent's Fort in Colorado, later schooled in Westport and St. Louis, fought as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War, rode with the renegade Cheyenne Dog Soldiers in retaliation for the horrific Sand Creek Massacre, hired as a government interpreter to the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, knew and met with the many Indian chiefs to promote peace and acted as an intermediary between both worlds.
Throughout his entire life he was confused and frustrated as to which side of the heritage line to choose. The authors are to be commended on the manner in which they incorporate this struggle for identity along with critical historical events that shaped and incurred during his lifetime.
Great Book, Should be a Movie.......2005-02-25
George Bent really wants the rest of the world to know the "Indian" side of what most people are taught in school.
There are always 3 sides to a story, ours, theirs and the truth. All we can do know is read both sides and decide for ourself what is the truth.
I would recomend this book, and I'm not much of a book reader.
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Best known as the hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg and the commanding officer of the troops who accepted the Confederates' surrender at Appomattox, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) has become one of the most famous and most studied figures of Civil War history. After the war, he went on to serve as governor of Maine and president of Bowdoin College. The first collection of his postwar letters, this book offers important insights for understanding Chamberlain's later years and his place in chronicling the war.
The letters included here reveal Chamberlain's perspective on military events at Gettysburg, Five Forks, and Appomattox, and on the planning of ceremonies to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Gettysburg. As Jeremiah Goulka points out in his introduction, the letters also shed light on Chamberlain's views on politics, race relations, and education, and they expose some of the personal difficulties he faced late in life. On a broader scale, Chamberlain's correspondence contributes to a better understanding of the influence of Civil War veterans on American life and the impact of the war on veterans themselves. It also says much about state and national politics (including the politics of pensions), family roles and relationships, and ideas of masculinity in Victorian America.
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A Grand Collection of Eloquence.......2004-09-28
While some in the Civil War community complain of "Chamberlain fatigue," it is difficult to gripe about this marvelous new collection of postwar correspondence from one of the most articulate officers on either side of the conflict.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain survived the Civil War - including a horrible wound at Petersburg - to become one of Maine's most prominent citizens. His postwar career included four terms as governor of Maine, a stint as president of Bowdoin College, numerous business enterprises, and perhaps most importantly, many years as a writer and lecturer on his Civil War experiences.
The correspondence included by editor Jeremiah Goulka covers nearly every aspect of Chamberlain's personal and professional life. Chamberlain's heartfelt letters to his family, especially those to his wife Fannie, reveal him to be a loving, thoughtful husband and father. His relationship with Fannie, stormy and difficult though it was for many years, survived numerous crises until Fannie's death in 1905.
Chamberlain's Civil War experiences transformed him, and his separation from the army often left him feeling restless. In 1870, Chamberlain wrote to the King of Prussia and offered his services in Prussia's war with France. In 1898, Chamberlain contacted the Secretary of War to volunteer for the Spanish-American War. Even with all his postwar positions and projects, Chamberlain never quite filled the space in his soul left empty by the end of the Civil War.
Critics of Chamberlain, in his lifetime and in our own time, claim that he inflated his role at Little Round Top in an attempt to horde the glory of that important engagement. At least one letter included in this volume refutes this criticism. In a January 1910 letter to Union veteran and author Oliver W. Norton, Chamberlain says of his brigade commander, Strong Vincent, "He was a noble man, and I have not known an abler commander in his grade. Nothing could exceed his skill and energy in taking the position on Little Round Top and the confidence he inspired in his subordinates. To this the result of the fight on the left at Round Top is very largely due [emphasis added]."
The correspondence also clarifies an often incorrectly reported fact concerning the July 1913 fiftieth anniversary reunion at Gettysburg. Chamberlain, while he visited Gettysburg in May as a member of the planning commission, did not attend the July reunion. Chamberlain's doctor strongly urged him not to go due to his declining health, and he stayed behind in Maine.
Rather than being castigated for his prolific eloquence, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain deserves the timeless thanks of everyone who studies the Civil War. Jeremiah Goulka deserves thanks as well, for his skillful editing, and for giving us a deeper understanding of a genuine American hero.
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I went to the University of Arizona and I majored in civil engineering because that's what my two brothers had done.
I thought it was the right thing to do.
When I got there, I found that I couldn't pass anything. I couldn't pass a damn thing. I was flunking out and that would be a big scandal in my family. I was getting desperate.
I didn't know what to do.
That December, the Japanese government saw fit to bomb Pearl harbor.
So, next month, January, two weeks before finals, I got very patriotic and I went down and enlisted in the Army Air Corps.
Old Man in a Baseball Cap is a wonderful, hilarious, and haunting memoir. Written when Rochlin was seventy, after he took a storytelling workshop with Spalding Gray, it was originally performed as a monologue and was described by the New York Times as being "about an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances, [it] has elements of an epic: love and death, honor and betrayal, vengefulness and martyrdom, and ultimately, the fortuitousness of survival."
Old Man in a Baseball Cap is an astonishingly fresh, candid look at "the last good war." At once naive and wise, Fred Rochlin's voice is unforgettable.
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Glad I only spent a dollar.......2006-02-23
I found this book for sale in a dollar store and it seemed at first to be an interesting book. Now I understand why it ended up in the dollar store. I have read thousands of books in my life and I pride myself on that fact that no matter how bad, I will finish a book. This book will be my first exception. Not only didn't I finish it, I threw it out. I have 2 sons who look up to WW 2 vets as their heroes and this book will not be in my library. Mr. Rochlin has managed to compile a short collection of "his memories" peppered with vulgar language and over graphic scenes. Many of the vulgarities were misspelled and I wondered if the publisher even proof read it. Maybe he couldn't finish it either. General George S. Patton swore on a regular basis to get his men to understand him better, but reading his words you don't notice the crudeness. You feel that you are reading the man's passion for his work and his soldiers. I did not feel the use of the vulgarity in this book served any purpose other then as shock value. Again, this is America and our soldiers have shed their blood to preserve our freedom of speech. I am just glad that those fine men and women aren't around to read this crap. Go Read Stephen Ambrose's The Wild Blue to cleanse your palette.
Memoir?? .......2005-08-22
An on-line editorial review recommended that this book be placed in public libraries. The only way this could be supported if the recommendation was accompanied with a proviso that it be positioned deep in the Fiction section.
The book is like a one-man HBO stand-up show that's peppered with foul language, and salted with what may be an occasional truth. In fact, one of the opening points and closing remarks is that the author's mind will make up new historical truths. This book is marketed as a "memoir." But one can't tell where the "show" stops, and the actual facts, if any, from WW II experiences begin.
I was hoping to add to my insight of what some of our older veterans experienced. Instead, I read a compendium of a stand-up comic's foul-mouthed, crude, and outright vulgar act. While soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are known - and accepted - for their collective use of hard-core language, the unseemly language in this book appears to be thrown in - shock-jock style - just for effect. Maybe it makes the stage show a little more entertaining. A Junior High School kid with a flashlight under the sheets would love it this book.
Making fig-fig.......2004-11-30
OLD MAN IN A BASEBALL CAP is a quick and easy read due, no doubt, to the late Fred Rochlin's monologue style which he developed after attending a workshop with the incomparable Spalding Grey. After performing a number of his wartime monologues live, they were collected and published in this rather short book.
Rochlin was a B-24 navigator during WWII and his tale of his war experiences is raw, rather course, not pretty at times, and yet darkly humorous. Rochlin is remarkably frank about his experiences, more than one of which may shock the sensitive reader. This is unlike any other narrative I have ever read about the Second World War: more personal and in many ways far more human.
Whether the events of this monologue are true or not does not really matter; I am sure that Rochlin (like David Sedaris) would say that they are "true enough." They form a story in Rochlin's mind, a narrative that he feels compelled to tell. I for one am more than willing to listen.
Jeremy W. Forstadt
Better on Tape.......2003-10-20
The audio version is the only way to go. Do not listen if you are easily offended by frank talk of the things young men do when they have resigned themselves to unpleasant circumstances. Rochlin is NOT an exemplar of Brokaw's "Greatest Generation." He and his comrades at arms were decidedly human.
Rochlin acknowledges that men of his generation were discouraged from talking about traumatic experiences. He also acknowledges that his memories are factually suspect. While current opinion seems to hold listening in higher esteem than talking, Rochlin maintains that sharing one's stories is a gift to others. It's too bad they didn't give WWII combat veterans a "transition debrief" before they sent them home. Many of them suffered from post traumatic stress for decades and their loved ones never knew exactly what had happened to them. A chance to talk to someone about their experiences might have helped many combat veterans and there might be a better understanding of what that war was really like.
Great Read.......2003-04-22
Well written in an easy to read, intelligent style. Reminds me of the clarity of Hemmingway's the Old Man and the Sea. Whether embellished or not, the stories transfer to the reader the feelings these young men must have had to go into the meatgrinder week after week. There is a gentle humor surrounding the constant tragedy that was WWII for them. Was a nice follow-up read to Ambrose's book on the 15th Air Corps.
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- Very humbling to read of my grandfather Zimmer's adventures.
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Frontier Soldier: An Enlisted Man's Journal of the Sioux and Nez Perce Campaigns, 1877
William Zimmer
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In this remarkable journal, an observant and opinionated cavalry private offers an inside look at a soldier's life during the Indian Wars of the 1870s. One of the few enlisted men to keep a diary, Private William F. Zimmer participated in the closing campaign of the Great Sioux War. Later, under the command of Colonel Nelson A. Miles, Zimmer fought at the climatic Battle of the Bear's Paw Mountains, the battle that led to Chief Joseph's famous surrender. Frontier Soldier expands our understanding of military dynamics during the Indian Wars and offers an honest view of army life from the perspective of the rank and file.
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Very humbling to read of my grandfather Zimmer's adventures........1999-02-14
I never knew my grandfather as he died the year before I was born. I used to play in the attic of my home. I played with grandfathers uniform and sword,his musket and many of his personal belongings. Seeing as how this is my grandfather it makes the book seem more real to me than if it were written about someone that I never heard of.
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a refreshing, gripping tale about the mysterious Vietnam war.......1998-11-20
Tom Campbell's book is extremely well written. The narrative unfolds quickly, bringing the reader into the mysterious maze of the Viet Cong supply route that belied the powerful bombing capacities of the U.S. military. It is written from the eyes of the teenagers conscripted into military duty, beginning with their grueling boot camp and their seasoned drill instructor. Scenes of the trail are spendidly presented, and readers will find themselved caught up in the suspense of the outcome. The book is an amazingly keen observer of minute details and larger conflictual perspectives. It is not overly sympathetic to either side, but quite human in presenting the nitty-gritty daily decisions soldiers from both sides were forced to make. You will find this book disturbing and stimulating. A high recommendation.
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- It's a "history mystery"
- A Changed Man, An Old Army Mystery
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A Changed Man: An Old Army Mystery
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How would you feel, what would you do upon learning that the name you had grown up with was completely phony? It happened to me in middle age, with a husband and two grown-up children at the centre of my world. And for several years I simply didn't believe it!
I still have scribbled notes from that day at the hospital, when my dying father denied he was Thomas Burton, the name Mother and I had known him by all those years we were together. When he identified himself as Ruskin Friton, I had to ask him to spell it. He did, and gave us his address in St.Louis, the names of his father and several aunts and uncles.
Would you believe an old man so confused by Alzheimers that he no longer recognized his wife and daughter?
Would you be annoyed, even angry with a parent who hid your relatives from you? Deprived you of finding your roots?
Would you care enough to start sleuthing?
For years Mother and I had been suspicious that this loving and supportive husband and father was lying to us about his past. We had never met his family. In my early twenties I had made a few inquiries, all in vain.
Now I began by sending out more letters, still dubious that Dad had at last told us the truth. I was blown away when Ara Kaye, Reference Specialist at the State Historical Society of Missouri, helped me locate our whole family of Fritons, uncles, aunts and all, in the 1900 U.S. Census. I believe my hands were shaking as I read about Ruskin, his parents, and grandparents in old St.Louis.
Completely captivated, I spent the next ten years churning out hundreds of queries to government agencies, military headquarters, libraries, veterans' groups...across the United States and as far away as Germany, wherever clues and hunches led me. I found my relatives in St.Louis, the present generation, who knew about the son who had vanished and was never heard of again. We shared wonderful old letters, documents, and photos, and I was thrilled to recognize my father as a boy of ten or eleven.
I knew of his service in the Army during World War I because that is where he met my mother, Margaret, who was a Red Cross nurse at the hospital where he was stationed. They began dating and eventually were secretly married. (It was against the rules for nurses to date enlisted men)
Was the Army aware of the secret identity change? Did they perhaps order it?? Certain key letters and documents suggest this is the case, but the evidence is by no means conclusive.
Was Ruskin Friton/Thomas Burton engaged in undercover work? The family was German, and he spoke the language.
Or perhaps he committed some crime?
Friends ask: "Betty, if your dad did something dishonorable, would you really want to know?"
The answer is yes--whatever he may have done will not dim this daughter's love and gratitude.
Why would a brainy young soldier disappear forever from his family and hide them from his wife and child? My research has filled in many gaps, but the ultimate answer is still missing.
I ask my readers: "How would you feel? Would you write this book?"
My prime reason for going onto the net with this true account is the fervent hope that someone out there can provide information or clues. Organizations and/or individuals who share my interests in military history, true mysteries or genealogy are invited to link their website to this one: www.trafford.com/robots/00-0052.html.
A Changed Man is more than just a mystery. The reader will embark on a sentimental journey into the zestful youth of the Twentieth Century, with its flappers, bootlegging, revolutionary inventions, and newfound freedoms; also a fond recollection of two vibrant and unforgettable people: Tom and Margaret, whose antics will make you laugh out loud, as when...
-Tom locked bumpers with Richard Dix and dragged the furious film star all across Hollywood, to punish him for tailgating.
-Or when he was thrown into a Mexican jail for the crime of winning big at a poker game.
-Or Margaret's electrifying experience with spark plugs on the old Scripps Booth.
-Or she drove her brother's Model T Ford into the neighbours' choice flower bed and was invited in for tea by the forgiving neighbours.
-Read about the frequent root beer explosions, due to Tom's yeasty formula. (We had to carry bottles upstairs from the cellar, wrapped in a pillow).
-Learn why Tom was delighted when our dear dog Peter bit him on the arm.
Warning to readers: If you dip into this story, you may find it highly addictive and not be able to put it down. This was my fate when writing it! You'll be sleuthing for clues. If you come up with any, please share them with me!
DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THESE PEOPLE?
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Ruskin Friton (the author's father) disappears from his loving family in St. Louis, and serves in the US Army under a different name during World War I. He marries an Army nurse, Margaret Kumpman, who knows him only as Thomas Burton. Daughter Betty, who has been researching this unsolved mystery for 10 years, wants help from readers.
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It's a "history mystery".......2000-09-09
The sign of a good book is when you are very sorry to turn the last page! I liked the fact this book combines an interesting mystery with a facts about the United States during the 1920s to 1960s. There are lots of fascinating old pictures to pour over.
A Changed Man, An Old Army Mystery.......2000-08-02
This is a fascinating true mystery! The historical comments are interesting as well. Much of the book reads like a "Little House" book, except for adults, and about a different time period. Humorous anecdotes add a personal touch. The author goes back and forth between the mystery of why her father changed his identity and left his family, to her mother's extensive memoirs of the period between 1919 and 1980, to things happening with her father's family in St. Louis, to world history events. The book is full of photographs stratecically placed. A recommended read!
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Back in the beginning days of America's Civil War, the women of the small town of Marlette, Michigan, in the very heart of the Thumb wanted to show their support of President Lincoln and the Union forces in some small way. They collectively designed and sewed a huge Union flag of 34 stars, four rows of eight with an extra star at the end in between each two rows. This precious flag was then given to a gentleman they knew who lived just to the south who was leaving for the war. Color Sergeant Thomas Henry Sheppard's story, along with that of the Battle Flag of Company E, First Michigan Cavalry, is one of the most incredible true stories to ever come out of the Civil War. The Detroit Free Press back in the 1880's called it "an episode of the Civil War which has a strong coloring of Romance", as the Press told of how the colors of the First Michigan Cavalry were protected as the red, white and blue bunting became more and more tattered and sun-faded and bullet-ridden, and still the flag "assumed a dignity and interest even beyond that which the colors have of their own right to every loyal man". Thomas' account intersects with the lives of two of the War's most famous Generals and is written by a close relative of the third. The Color Sergeant took the colors and with his regiment carried them to the front lines where they saw hot service, and from which many did not return. In his words, the 1st Michigan "fought through the Shenandoah, on Banks' advance and retreat, in the campaigns of Pope and Burnside, and did yeoman service at the Battle of Gettysburg. They were under fire twice at Winchester, at Middletown, Strasburg, Harrisonburg, Occoquan and Thoroughfare Gap." Sheppard and his flag survived 13 major battles, over 100 skirmishes and 16 months of war. Thomas, following right behind his flamboyant new General Custer, led the First Michigan Cavalry into the most famous cavalry charge of the entire war as they stopped the Confederacy short of their certain victory in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. Alas, Thomas and his beloved flag went down in that fight, and he became a Prisoner-of-War, spending the next 505 days in prisons of the South, including that Hell hole, ANDERSONVILLE. While all that is stunning enough, the rest of Sheppard's story is almost beyond belief.as many years later he has a chance encounter with the Civil War's most famous Volunteer General "Black Jack" Logan at the train station in Marlette during Logan's whistle-stop campaign for the Vice-Presidency of the United States. Thomas' precious flag with 72 bullet holes.that old flag is now the proudest possession of the Dearborn Historical Museum, in the Commandant's Quarters at the Detroit Arsenal, now Sgt. John S. Cosbey Camp 427, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), where Thomas and the First Michigan Cavalry received their war supplies. He kept the colors.
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