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A Veteran Adventurer.

--Courtney H. James, a son of G. P. R. James, the novelist, has enlisted at Cleveland, Ohio, as a "veteran volunteer" in the second Ohio cavalry. His experience has been a stormy one. Entered the English navy at fifteen; walked Her Majesty's deck six years; then spent three years in the English army; then five years as civil engineer; accompanied Walker to Central America, and has been a Lieutenant in the first New York mounted rifles from the beginning of the present war until mustered out on the 25th of October.

The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 14, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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