Merryweather USMC: is a story about two young men in 1833, living
in South Carolina. One would become a United States Marine Corps
General, the other an admiral in the United States Navy. This book
describes in vivid detail what may have occurred in the United
States Marine Corps between 1837 and 1867. The narration is by the
Marine Corps General, born in Port Royal, South Carolina. He will
serve in Florida during the Seminole Wars, Mexico, and finally the
Civil War. He is wounded at Gettysburg and is awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor. He is promoted to Commandant of the
Marine Corps and he occupies the highest USMC office in Washington
D.C. The historical events of 1937 through 1967, are carefully
followed. The imagination of the author provides rich characters in
powerful settings from the battlefields of Mexico to those in
America The time old love story between a man and woman is woven
throughout the book when the general meets the daughter of John
Randolph Adams. The Adams are those from the time of the Mayflower,
two US Presidents and statesmen of America. The general and Miss
Adams are like oil and water. He can not stand her, and she is
convinced that this is the man she will marry. Scenes are set
carefully with attention to accurate research of the low country of
South Carolina as well as our Nation's Capital circa 1837 - 1867.
The People's Standard History of the United States written by
Edward S. Ellis and published by Western Book Syndicate and
copyrighted by the Woolfall Company have provided background
materials, maps of the period and needed information on how the
federal government was organized and functioned during this period
of our history.
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