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• Page v: for “Soldiers”; to Mr. John Howard Jewitt for
• Page v: for “The Cruise of the Monitor” by George M. Boker;
• Page 60: Now all is hushed: th gleaming lines
• Page 67: And the star-spangled banner n triumph shall wave
• Page 74: Packenham!
• Page 75: General Packenham heroically waved his troops
• Page 80: As fair and free as now
• Page 83: Charles Dawson Shanley.
• Page 113: George M. Baker.
• Page 173: Will Allen Dromgoloe.