Monday, September 03, 2018

John Bigelow's Advice to His Sons

C.M. Mayo www.cmmayo.com

This past week, for my book on Far West Texas, I've been working on a paper about Lt. John Bigelow of the Tenth Cavalry. (About this most unusual officer and his long life of many adventures and achievements, see my previous notes here and here, and about his brother Poultney Bigelow here). 

From his father John Bigelow's Retrospections of an Active Life, vol. IV, pp. 535-543:










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