Tuesday, December 6, 2011

A Handsome Present

A sword is on exhibition in St. Louis that cost $1,000, which is intended as a present from the German citizens of the West to Gen. Fremont.  It is enriched with diamonds and ornamented with a small bust of the General in gold.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 8, 1862, p. 2

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