Saturday, February 11, 2012

There has been some regret that . . .

. . . Commodore Farragut has not a more euphonious name.  A gentleman with slight German proclivities says it is not to be complained of – that is in truth, “ferry goot.”

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 3

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