Archive for 2. May 2009

A JUVENILE WARRIOR OF EXPERIENCE.–

The town of Swanzey, in New Hampshire, is the home of George B. Mattoon, a young man only eighteen years old, who served three years in the Union army, had been in forty-three battles and twenty-seven skirmishes, had two horses shot under him, and during the whole time did not receive a single injury, nor was he absent from duty a single day.

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