Phil Andrade
London
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Wilsons Creek, August 11, 1861
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Nasty business : helluva scrap.
Lyon was something of a fanatic, apparently.
Perhaps it’s just as well that he was killed before he could administer the medicine he had in mind.
Maybe I’m wrong to say that.
Who knows what his zeal might have accomplished ?
Regards, Phil
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"Egad, sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox!"
"That will depend, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."
Earl of Sandwich and John Wilkes
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