Duels and codes of honor stir Civil War era reminiscence
A Post-Dispatch reminiscence recounts famous duels and the code of honor that shaped them. It cites the Graves Cilley duel at Bladensburg, details exchanges of letters, and notes how political harbors and personal pride led to fatal shootings.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Post-Dispatch
Lewis
New Orleans
Honah
Graves-Cilley
Cilley
Willey
J. Watson Webb
Graves
Webb
Cikey
Culley
Lee
Ife
Col. Webb
Belter Ughing
Calley
Wise
Miceling
Bladensburg
Bladenaburg
Mason
McCarty
Virginia
United States
Conway
Crittenden
Arkansas
Little Rock
Ben Butler and the slippery log bridge courtship tale
A western paper recalls a young Ben Butler outwit rivals in a farm romance near Butler’s Massachusetts home. He greased a log bridge to trap suitors and win the girl, incurring a fall and illness but securing the match before elopement with a hired man, a tale Butler cites as life’s narrow escape.
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Ben
Butler
Genera
Aone
Prettyirl
Massachusetts
Fair Flirts
Uhelo
Ubal
Persian Shah Beheads Painter Over Sacred Image
London correspondence recounts a French artist Pelletier who painted a depiction blamed by the Shah of Persia as insulting to religion. The Shah tests the painting by timing its presentation after beheading the head of Saint John, declaring the lips too pink, and then orders the artist’s death by sword. Pelletier survives only in shock, receives honors and money to study anew in Paris.
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Lailavide
St. John
Hepredias
Monsieur Pelletier
Monsieur
M. Pelletier
Palais Royal
Paris
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