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Today I gave to the printer the descriptive manuscript whereby I have woven a classical story and brought into order and coherency the "Floats" for the Parade, or illuminated nocturnal pageant of the secret society known as the "Veiled
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Slayback recounted that he met his mother in Havana, Cuba, in
February 1866 and she induced him to return to the United States. They reached New York on February 18, and he went on to Washington, D.C., where he received a pardon from the government.
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troops. He was imprisoned for three weeks, some of the time in
Masonic College, where he had gone to school and which had been converted into a prison. He escaped when he hit his guard with a bucket while they were gathering water at a spring.
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idea and the perception of it by the confederate soldiers at an early stage of their struggle." In a speech given at the decoration of both Union and
Confederate soldiers' graves on May 30, 1873, Slayback said that the Southern soldiers had
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797:"A Shot in the Sanctum,"
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1262:"A Mournful Mission,"
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1232:"Cockerill's Career,"
1202:"Was Slayback Armed?"
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671:References
563:Grand Jury
556:hemorrhage
542:and chief
474:stereotype
449:story line
315:Maximilian
268:Rio Grande
201:After the
195:Union Army
134:Charles E.
654:Insurance
554:internal
417:Lone Star
415:, or its
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353:Governor
329:, No. 6.
302:in 1860.
300:Civil War
290:. He was
191:Lexington
51:St. Louis
620:Tributes
409:Palmetto
405:Richmond
278:Civilian
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63:Personal
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569:Funeral
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311:prefect
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226:colonel
222:cavalry
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