In a bowery regiment : and other chapters from my life as soldier, consul, diplomat and globe trotter : typescript, [ca. 1925] / "Captain Musgrove Davis" (Charles O. Davis).

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In a bowery regiment : and other chapters from my life as soldier, consul, diplomat and globe trotter : typescript, [ca. 1925] / "Captain Musgrove Davis" (Charles O. Davis).

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Vignettes on his experiences during the Civil War, his service as U.S. consul in Japan and England, and friends Bret Harte and David Gray. Includes a chronology of his life and several photographs of himself at various ages. Also, a copy of Sylvia Chatfield Bates' "An Elmira College boy", from her Elmira College Stories, concerning Shepard as the only male student at the women's college, 1859-1861.

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Gray, David, 1870-1968

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David Gray (1870-1968) was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Harvard University in 1892, and received a Doctor of Letters from Bowdoin College in 1925. He married Maude Livingston Hall Waterbury, an aunt to Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1914. Between 1893 and 1899, he worked as a reporter and editorial writer for several Rochester and Buffalo newspapers. Gray was admitted to the bar in 1899, and served as a Captain in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. From 1899 onward, his ...

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 82nd (1861-1865)

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Bates, Sylvia Chatfield

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Harte, Bret, 1836-1902

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Author and journalist. From the description of Papers of Bret Harte [manuscript] 1859-1901. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647940411 Harte served as editor of the Overland Monthly, 1868-1870. From the description of ALS, 1869 April 17 : San Francisco, to Mrs. Emily Gould, Rome. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 16700642 From the description of ALS, 1868 July 5 : San Francisco, to [Emily Gould]. (Copley Press, J S Copl...

Shepard, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1848-1928

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Born at Arcade, N.Y. Enlisted in the 82nd Infantry Regiment, N.Y.S.V. on 9 May 1861; wounded in action 8 June 1862. Mustered out as first lieutenant. After the war, he served as U.S. consul in Bradford, England and Yedo (Tokyo), Japan, where he was the first American to meet the Mikado. From the description of Charles O. Shepard papers, 1862-1914. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 191767454 Born at Arcade, N.Y. Enlisted in the 82nd Infantry Regiment, N.Y.S.V. on ...