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Title: Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: De Leon, T. C. (Thomas Cooper), 1839-1914
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Publisher: New York : G.W. Dillingham Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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en—Was never afraid of a matron or maid,But cent for no cotton, or silver, he paid! And, finally: John Pope came down to Dixie town, and thought it very wiseTo sit down in a skeeter swamp and start at telling lies.But when he found his lies were out, with all his might and main.He changed his base to another place, and began to—lie again! Probably the most sur-prised men of all who heard,were the writers of theseskits when they were read from print, at a subsequentmeeting of the Mosaic Club. The authors had forgottenthem in intervening rush of graver matters and someone,most probably Bagby, had joked the jokers by tacking thename to each of the squibs. One irrepressible wag, who never wrote a line or evenknew he was a wit, won a later width of fame as great asany of his elders. Jimmie was the youngest of the threegallant Pegram brothers and the only one who survived thewar, though he followed through it as grim and foremosta fighter as Gen. R. S. Ewell. Pegram rose to majors rank,
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MAJOR J. W. PEGRAM BELLES, BEAUX AND SBAINS OF THE SIXTIES 271 despite his youth, as Ewells adjutant-general. In camp,in society—at the sick-bedside, the retreat, or the hot pur-suit he was full of original humor that had infection in it.A born mimic, he was a raconteur equal to Ran Tucker;a gift that gained him representation of a New Yorkhouse, post-bellum; and aided his genial, manly nature tomake him one of the most popular men—in society,trade and the clubs—that ever was sent on the roadby the war. He lost his lovely wife, as noted before,after brief married life and never married again. But girls,as well as matrons and men, loved Major Jimmie; re-told his jokes and spoiled his stories in a dozen states;while they later mourned his untimely death. He was aloyal friend, with all the courage of his race and the cour-tesy of the Old Virginia gentleman. But it was not only in stirring if trying scenes, or in thecheery ones of the mire truce, not only in the free or freez-ing ai

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