“we lighted bonfires here in Cloone an’ held cheerin’ till it whitened for day in the eastern world.” As the sap of young blood rises, Ches and Finn do their share of “kissin’ and ...

Freeman’s book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road ... So he was the ideal eyewitness for the world of the antebellum Congress. And in his diaries and in his letters to his ...