A young Southerner, educated at West Point, who became a general in the Union Army during the Civil War. During a skirmish in the Blue Ridge he captured his wounded brother Tom, a general in the Confederate Army, sent him back to a hospital in Alexandria and eventually arranged to have him invalided home.
As a chance companion for a few idle minutes, is there any one so likely to prove himself agreeable as a well-informed, travelled Irishman?
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GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton
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1976 renewed PUP
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