Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Benjamin” in chapter 13, page 167 of Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865:
...ad given, before, to Colonel Northrop, he now, but more directly, bestowed upon Mr. Benjamin, careless of the wide-spread evils which might result from such an act. If he did not prompt the course of Mr. Benjamin , he openly interposed himself to soothe the exaggerated susceptibilities
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