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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...was sold, the company moved into the Central fire station, taking the second steam fire engine, and hand engine Phoenix Number 6 moved over the brook, occupying the house vacated by the Fountain Number 4 company. The first Number 4 Engine Company had Colonel Hines for foreman and he was succeeded in turn by Captain Harvey Simonds, Captain Alonzo Joy and Captain J. W. Simonds, who was the foreman when "Fountain" was bought. Following him as foreman were, J. A. Taylor, C. B. Fairbanks, L. H. Dearborn, Jonathan C. Howe, James B. Coffin, L. S. Higgins, C. R. Briggs and George A. Hines, nearly all of whom commanded at some of the machine's famous victories, which were always celebrated with enthusiasm. "Fountain" came from Lynn, Massachusetts, where "she was used in the regular service and as a sporting machine. When the old Number 4, afterwards rebuilt into Number 6, was played out, S. M. Waite heard about the Lynn machine being on the point of being discarded for a steamer, and in his characteristic way slipped down and bought her, paying $800, and the first the people knew of it was when the machine appeared. This was in 1866, and in 1869 she won her first victory, taking first money, $400, at Rutland; next at Greenfield she took $350; then at Orange, where "Western" won a prize too, and afterwards at North Adams, where Number 6 Hose also took first money, and at Keene where she played 225 feet three times and first money was divided between her and the Gardner machine which made the same and refused to play it off. Fountain's best play was at the firemen's parade in 1877--226 feet 2 inches, when the steamer beat her by two feet. She was sold to go to Milford after the steamers were bought, and to the...
A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on major figures—including Freud and William James—was pervasive and profound. But in recent decades Kipling’s reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of work still looms large, and his monumental poem “If—” is quoted and referenced by politicians, athletes, and ordinary readers alike, his unabashed imperialist views have come under increased scrutiny. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this fascinating and complex writer to life and, for the first time, gives full attention to Kipling's intense engagement with the United States—a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy. Benfey traces the writer’s deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sought deliberately to turn himself into a specifically American writer. It was his most prodigious and creative period, as well as his happiest, during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous. Had a family dispute not forced his departure, Kipling almost certainly would have stayed. Leaving was the hardest thing he ever had to do, Kipling said. “There are only two places in the world where I want to live,” he lamented, “Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can’t live in either.” In this fresh examination of Kipling, Benfey hangs a provocative “what if” over Kipling’s American years and maps the imprint Kipling left on his adopted country as well as the imprint the country left on him. If proves there is relevance and magnificence to be found in Kipling’s work.
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The Vermont Brigade, sometimes referred to as the "First Vermont Brigade" or the "Old Brigade," fought its first full-brigade engagement in the Seven Days' battles. The leaders, as well as the rank and file, were inexperienced in warfare, but through sheer grit and determination they made a name for themselves as one of the hardest-fighting units in the Army of the Potomac. Using soldiers' letters, diaries, and service and pension records, this book gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Virginia summer heat, days of marching with very little rest or nourishment, and the fear and exhilaration of combat. Also included are the stories of 29 men that were wounded or killed and how the tragedies affected their families.
