Word: weitzel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasonably successful novels. In 1856 he married Harriet Silliman Shepard and for the next few years divided his time between New Haven and Charleston, S. C. When Sumter was fired on he escaped from Charleston on the last ship going north, recruited a Connecticut company, captained it, served under Weitzel and Banks in Louisiana, under Sheridan in Virginia, was a major when the war ended. He was in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau at Greenville, S. C., when Miss Ravenel's Conversion was published. His service ended in 1868 and he spent the rest of his life...