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A Sailor’s Woes
UNION HALL.—On Saturday, a seaman, just paid off from the Daphne sloop of war, was brought up under the following circumstances:—It appeared that he arrived in a fly from Gravesend…
Posted inBiographical Daily News
Lincoln Escort Born in Maine, Dies At 84, in Brooklyn
New York, May 16 —(AP)—John Willis, 84. Civil War veteran and member of Lincoln's escort at Gettysburg, died at the home of his daughter in Brooklyn today. Mr. Willis was…