Word: civility
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...immediate service. But the foundation reason for reserving the order was the need of the army. The national army in a very short time will require the service of all the men from the training camps. It would have been a mistake to return them, over temporarily, to civil life, because of the impairment in condition and efficiency which would result. The men in training for officers' service will bless the name of Secretary BAKER. --New York Times...
...mayor of Pau, M. Alfred de Sassance, most kindly took the funeral arrangements into his own hands and thus enabled us to have everything done. . . . Services were held in the English church in Pau. All officers and pilots of the school attended; also the mayor, many civil authorities, and several American residents. Five young Americans and myself acted as pall-bearers. . . . Two pilots flew above the cortege. This is the honorary salutation given to French pilots...
Instructor in Civil Engineering: John Brazer Babcock...
Major Henry Lee Higginson, Hon. A.M. '82, President of the Union, and for many years identified with the University in different ways, is serving in this war by helping in the campaign for subscriptions to the Second Liberty Loan. Being a veteran of the Civil War he realizes what war means, and hence how necessary it is to raise a huge sum to carry on the work. He writes...
...honor to serve in the Civil War, and know what War means, and I am eighty-two years old. Because of these facts I take the liberty of writing you as follows...