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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Frank H. Harleston — a hero of Fort Sumter . (search)
Frank H. Harleston — a hero of Fort Sumter. By Miss Claudine Rhett.
Those who read history with thoughtful eyes derive as much pleasure from the study of character as from that of events.
I think that no where in the power of a noble character more strikingly illustrated than in the case of Lord Howe, the young English officer who was killed in one of the early skirmishes of the war waged for the possession of Canada, some years before the American Revolution.
Lord Howe achieved nothing remarkable, and yet he was deeply regretted, and all who read of him even now, are filled with a tender pity for his sad fate, so much so, that within the last few years the people of New York have given expression to their sympathy by erecting a monument to his memory on the spot where he fell, near Lake George, more than a hundred years after his death.
Our hero, Captain Harleston, was destined to serve his country in a far greater war, with conspicious efficiency, and to lose his life whils
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Newport's News . Nomen non Locus . (search)