By: Ardis E. Parshall - August 09, 2012 This started out as a comment for BCC’s posting of an 1859 letter by army quartermaster P.T. Turnley. Due to its length, however, I’m posting it here rather straining the BCC’s tolerance for long-winded comments. I have no – well, very little – quarrel with Bill MacKinnon’s use of this document in his review of Polly Aird’s biography of Peter McAuslan. I wish he had extracted the...
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