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The Man Without a Country in Philip Nolan’s Tale
A veteran recalls Philip Nolan a young officer in Burr’s circle who chose alienation from the United States. Nolan is condemned by court martial to never hear his country’s name again and endures a life away from home aboard naval ships, sharing his pain and memory with a narrator from the navy.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Owen Johnson
Edward Everett Hale
Little, Brown & Co
Hilip Nolan
Legion of the West
Our
Nolan
Burr
Reader
Mississippi Valley
Fort Adams
A. Burr
United States
Morgan
Orleans
Vera Cruz
Texas
Marshal
Old Morgan
Mitchell
Washington City
Jefferson
New Orleans
Atlantic
Intrepid
Washington
Neale
Philip Nolan
United States Army
W. Southard
Secretary of the Navy
The
Levant
Otter
Navy
Bast
America
Phillips
Walter Scott
Warren
Mediterranean
Lady Hamilton
Mr. Nolan
Fort Adamis
Palmas
Vaughan
Moon
St. Thomas Harbor
Heaven and Earth
Department
Danforth
United State
Ingham
California
Oregon
Chesapeake
Barron
Barr
Colleges
West Point
Naval School
Robinson Crusoe
Old Abe
Benjamin Lincoln
General Lincoln
Episcopal Collect
Order of Cincinnati
Port Adams