Opis: Hammet Achmet - Stedman Emilie T.

Excerpt from Hammet Achmet: A Servant of George Washington

There lies before me a bundle of old papers, all bearing the quaint autograph "Hammet Achmet." Who was he I have consulted the various records, and talked with the oldest inhabitant, and this is what I have learned.

Years ago in Middletown, Conn., there lived an aged colored man; he was very short and thick-set, very black, with sooty wool, which long manipulation had converted into pipe-stem curls, which waved about his face in the most comical way imaginable. He had been a servant of General Washington. At first as a little boy, holding the Generals horse, then waiter - for many long stories he could tell of the fine dinners and grand company in "Massa Washington's mansion."

Later on, a "drummer in the war," presumably the War of the Revolution. At any rate, he had a pension, which "Massa B."

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Szczegóły: Hammet Achmet - Stedman Emilie T.

Nazwa: Hammet Achmet A Servant of George Washington (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Stedman Emilie T.
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781332134632
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 20
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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