Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French

CHAPTER I.

Ancestry--Thomas Ffrench--Military Aspiration--Important Document--Appointment to West Point--New Jersey Farm Life--Great Changes--A Real Yankee--Pennsylvania Hall--The Fashions--Capture of a Hessian Soldier--Rufus Choate and Bishop Wainwright--West Point--Cadet Life--Senator Wall--John F. Reynolds--The Boycott--Rufus Ingalls--Requisites of a Commander.

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