Lettered companies ( troops and batteries in the cavalry and field artillery respectively ) of battalions ( squadrons in the cavalry ) have guidons displaying the branch insignia, the company letter, and the battalion and regimental numbers.

“ Dress ” guidons are horizontally divided, golden yellow over silver gray, with the letters “ USCC ” centered between the regimental number on the upper stripe and the company letter on the lower stripe.

In 1924 the Coast Artillery Corps tried to go back to the regimental system, and numbered companies were returned to letter designations.

The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.

On March 7, 1938, Robert O. Wilson, a surgeon at the American-administered University Hospital in the Safety Zone, wrote in a letter to his family, " a conservative estimate of people slaughtered in cold blood is somewhere about 100, 000, including of course thousands of soldiers that had thrown down their arms ".

Despite being very close to her older brother Lawrence, a distinguished thoracic surgeon, in a letter to a friend she described him as " one of nature's Fascists ".

The letter was signed " A. C ", and Cole supposed that the author was the surgeon Anthony Carlisle, who had been friends with Accum since the first years of the latter's stay in London.

* January 22-Montreal's Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine warns of a former surgeon who may have infected 2, 600 patients with HIV, by letter.

The second account, also recorded shortly after the events, was contained in a letter written by the surgeon, Jacob Mountgarrett to Reverend Robert Knopwood.

According to the same letter of Wolfgang Mozart written from Munich on 11 October 1777, an incompetent surgeon burned off Mysliveček's nose while trying to treat a mysterious illness.

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For instance, one young surgeon wrote a letter to the editor of the Richmond Sentinel, promising that if he were released he would find the editor ’ s “ Rebel son ” and look after him until he could be returned home.

Samuel West, working separately at Washington's direction, decrypted a letter that implicated Dr. Benjamin Church, the Continental Army's chief surgeon, in espionage for the British.

Her friend and colleague, Ib Bygbjerg ( a physician specializing in communicable diseases ), wrote in a 1983 letter to The Lancet that " while working as a surgeon under primitive conditions, she must have been heavily exposed to blood and excretions of African patients.

with their names, descriptions and vertues ; communicated in a letter from Mr. James Petiver ... to Mr. Samuel Brown, surgeon at Fort St. George, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London.

:" Mother received a letter ... from Henry, dated Tennessee ... his company was in the battle of Richmond, Kentucky and received the credit from Maj. Brown, chief of Gen. Kirby Smith ’ s staff, of winning that battle by enabling our forces to outflank the enemy ... he is still only sergeant, through acting surgeon also.

On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

McClellan's letter incensed Radical Republicans, who successfully pressured Lincoln to appoint John Pope, a Republican, as head of the new Army of Virginia.

Republican editor Horace Greeley of the highly influential New York Tribune fell for the ploy, and Lincoln refuted it directly in a shrewd letter of August 22, 1862.

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

In the spring of 1861, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War, the government of San Marino wrote a letter ( in " perfect Italian on one side, and imperfect but clear English on the other ") to United States President Abraham Lincoln, proposing an " alliance " between the two democratic nations and offering the President honorary San Marino citizenship.

Garfield's detractors later used this letter, which Chase never personally disclosed, to foster widespread criticism of Garfield as a betrayer, despite the fact that Halleck and Lincoln shared the same concerns over Rosecrans's reluctance to attack, and that Garfield had openly conveyed his concerns to Rosecrans.

In his letter, he stated that he would step aside if the National Union Convention would nominate someone other than Lincoln.

" Historians are undecided if Lincoln actually said this line, and in a letter that Stowe wrote to her husband a few hours after meeting with Lincoln no mention of this comment was made.

General Sherman asked the new Secretary of War, Alphonso Taft, to write a letter requesting Custer's release so Custer could take command of the Fort Lincoln expedition against the Lakota.

" He quickly realized that he had overstepped his bounds and apologized by letter to President Lincoln.

( This is the letter in which Lincoln suspended habeas corpus.

John Addams kept a letter from Lincoln in his desk, and Jane Addams loved to look at it as a child.

After he witnessed the Union Army defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, he wrote a letter to President Abraham Lincoln that complained of military mismanagement, promoted his own qualifications, and again requested a commission.

" Lincoln wrote a letter to the newly appointed general, part of which stated,

Sheridan received a personal letter of thanks from Abraham Lincoln and a promotion to major general in the regular army as of November 8, 1864, making him the fourth ranking general in the Army, after Grant, Sherman, and Meade.

In 1862 Hopkins wrote a letter to Lincoln requesting the President not to heed the detractors ' calls and continue to keep soldiers stationed in Maryland.

( Text of the royal letter here ..) Lincoln, who succeeded Buchanan, is said to have been asked what the elephants could be used for, and in reply he said that he did not know, unless " they were used to stamp out the rebellion.

" However, in his replying letter dated 3 February 1862 Lincoln did not mention anything about the Civil War.

It was here in 1861 that Abraham Lincoln met a little girl named Grace Bedell, who, during the preceding year's Presidential campaign, urged Lincoln by letter to grow his beard out fully as an attempt to improve his chances at being elected.

Lincoln responded by brief letter thanking Grace for the suggestion.

Shortly after his nomination Mr. Lincoln had received from that place a letter from a little girl, who urged him, as a means of improving his personal appearance, to wear whiskers.

A dramatic letter from Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton to Lincoln claimed “ The fate of the North-West is trembling in the balance .” His implication was that unless the independent trade of Union states along the Ohio River was restored by Union control of the entire Mississippi, further breakup of the Union was possible.

They played their first gig as the Stone Roses on 23 October 1984, supporting Pete Townshend at an anti-heroin concert at the Moonlight Club in London, Brown having sent the demo with an accompanying letter stating " I'm surrounded by skagheads, I wanna smash ' em.

The letter was signed by 34 prominent figures in the U. S. entertainment industry, including the top executives of MGM, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment as well as actors Dustin Hoffman and Goldie Hawn, director Oliver Stone, writers Mario Puzo and Gore Vidal and talk-show host Larry King.

A letter from the Hopi to the President of the United States in 1949 also declared that " the Stone Tablets, upon which are written the boundaries of the Hopi Empire, are still in the hands of the Chiefs of Oraibi and Hotevilla pueblos ..."

The discovery of the first flexagon, a trihexaflexagon, is credited to the British student Arthur H. Stone who was studying at Princeton University in the USA in 1939, allegedly while he was playing with the strips he had cut off his foolscap paper to convert it to letter size.

It had the opposite effect on Stone, who determined " that if ever had anything to say in public, would say it, and all the more because of that pastoral letter.

Shortly after the call was published, Stone received a letter from Hutsonville, Illinois, asking her to come nurse her sick brother Luther back to health.

In the months leading up to their wedding, Blackwell wrote a letter to Stone saying " I want to make a protest, distinct and emphatic, against the laws of marriage.

Stone wrote her friend offering the new couple the use of her home while she was away, signing the letter " Lucy Stone ", rather than just " Lucy " as she had in prior letters.

Stone wrote an angry and emotional letter to Anthony and determined to be known solely as Lucy Stone henceforward.

* Lucy Stone letter from the Special Collections and University Archives Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Walt Disney's daughter, Diane Disney Miller, wrote a letter to Nixon's daughters saying that Stone had " committed a grave disservice to your family, to the Presidency, and to American history ".

Gen. Stone wrote Sen. Sumner a terse letter and demanded satisfaction from Sen. Sumner.

The Kensington Stone critic Erik Wahlgren had noticed that the carver had incised a notch on the upper right hand corner of the letter V. The Massey Twins note that a mark in that position is consistent with an abbreviation technique used in the 14th century.

It combined the band's music with dancing by the Stone Monkey troupe ( which had evolved out of Exploding Galaxy ), the letter U representing a transition from a high level of spiritual awareness to a low, then returning to a final peak of awareness and communication.

In one letter from August 1929 she tells Stone she is recovering from a heart attack.

* Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries Photographs by Mariana Cook with a letter from Wendell Berry.

In November of that same year, Stone sent a letter to the FBI detailing Spitzer's sexual preferences with prostitutes and sexual props, right down to his black calf-length socks.

His letter found its way to Kees ’ s father, John, who eventually gave Justice permission to compile and edit The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees ( Iowa City, IA: The Stone Wall Press, 1959 ), which was subsequently released as a trade paperback in the 1960s.

The letter appeared in Rolling Stone in August 1973.

A second document by de Chérisey entitled Pierre et papier (" Stone and Paper ") provides a more detailed explanation, giving the more complicated decoding technique to one of the " parchments " by using a Knight's Tour 25-letter alphabet, omitting the letter " w ", the knowledge of which can only be known to the forger.

Governor Andrew strongly reprimanded the colonel of the regiment, who gave the letter to Stone.

In the same year Stone wrote a remarkable letter, preserved in the Bedford Correspondence ( ii.