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Furloughing Shoulder-Straps On a River Steamer Tale
A Civil War era memoir recounts seven officers and their wives sharing a river voyage aboard the Western World. Lockable state rooms misleadly named for famous Americans lead to a comic chaos as latch keys swap partners and couples blend across corridors during a holiday fray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banks
Grant
Port Hudson
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Naval Service
New Orleans
Harry C. Jones
George Marshall
Ohio Infantry
W. M. Hamilton
New York
Fred Orton
Pennsylvania Cavalry
George Coloma
John P. Florence
Connecticut Artillery
Dick Marline
Gulf Fleet Service
Western World
Pittsburgh
Henry Norton
Orton
Orion
Clay
Webster
Jackson
Clinton
Burnside
Blanket Bay
Taylor
Lieut. Jones
Guy-nor-or Curtin
Marshall
de Witt Clinton
Curly Carrie
Florence