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Title: Sergeant York And His People

Author: Sam Cowan

Release Date: August 25, 2006 [EBook #19117]

Language: English

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[Transcribers's Notes]

This book complements "History of The World War" (Gutenberg 18993)--a
broad view of many events and persons--with a personal and dramatic view
of an Ideal American Soldier: thoughtful, brave, modest, charitable,
loyal.

A photograph from the national archives accompanies this file.

www.archives.gov/southeast/exhibit/popups.php?p=4.1.11

photo-4-1-11.jpg

Here are some unfamiliar (to me) words.

badinage
Light, playful banter.

Chapultepec
Hill south of Mexico City, Mexico; site of an American victory on
September 13, 1847 in the Mexican War.

condoling
Express sympathy or sorrow.

currycomb
Square comb with rows of small teeth used to groom (curry) horses.

enured
Made tough by habitual exposure.

fastness
Strongly fortified defensive structure; stronghold.

kamerad
Comrade [German].

lagnappe
Trifling present given to customers; a gratuity.

levee
Formal reception, as at a royal court.

predial
Relating to, containing, or possessing land; attached to, bound to, or
arising from the land.

puncheon
Short wooden upright used in structural framing; Piece of broad,
heavy, roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat.

scantlings
Small timber used in construction.

tho
Though

[End Transcribers's Notes]

SERGEANT YORK AND HIS PEOPLE

BY SAM K. COWAN

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
By Arrangement with Funk & Wagnalls Company

[Stamped: 1610
Capital Heights Jr. High School Library
Montgomery, Alabama]

Copyright, 1922, By
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
[Printed in the United States of America]
Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the
Pan-American Republics and the United States
August 11, 1910.

To
FLOY PASCAL COWAN
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, WITH A LOVE THAT WANES NOT, BUT