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Title: Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Owens, John Algernon
Subjects: Glazier, Willard, 1841-1905 Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Philadelphia : P.W. Ziegler and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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been intimately acquainted with Captain Willard Glazier,a comrade in good standing of Post No. 29, Department of New-York, Grand Army of the Republic, for the past eight years,and know him to be worthy the confidence of every loyal man.He is an intelligent and courteous gentleman, an author of goodrepute, a soldier Avhose record is without a stain, and a true comradeof the Grand Array. I bespeak for him the earnest and cordialsupport of all comrades of the Order. Yours very truly in F., C. and L.,Frank M. Clark, Late A. A. G. Department of New York.G. A. R. On the evening of the eighth of May, 1876,Captain Glazier lectured as arranged at TremontTemple, Boston. His subject, appropriate to tiieCentennial year, was entitled Echoes from the^Revolution. This was the first occasion of any im-portance on which he had ever appeared on the ros-trum. It may here be mentioned that his friendsstrongly recommended him to deliver the first lecturebefore a smaller and less critical audience than he
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366 SWORD AND FEN, would be likely to confront in Boston, and thus pre-pare himself for a later appearance in the literary cap-ital ; but our soldier reasoned that as lecturing was anew experience to him, his military education dic-tated that, if he could carry the strongest works theweaker along the line would fall, as a matter of course,and so resolved to deliver his first lecture in TremontTemple. The lecture, as we have said, had beenprepared with a view to its delivery at various townsand cities on the route he contemplated traveling.He was introduced to his Boston audience by CaptainTheodore L. Kelly, Commander of Post 15, GrandArmy of the Republic, and was honored by the pres-ence on the platform of representatives from nearlyall the Posts of Boston. Captain Kelly introduced hiscomrade in the following complimentary manner: Ladies and Gentlemen : It gives me pleasure tohave the honor of introducing to you one who, by hisservices in the field and by the works of his pen, isentit

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