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    Andrew B. Bowering

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    At age eighteen, Andrew served, with the rank of private, as a bugler at the first battle of Manassas.  He moved up quickly, and by July 1861 was a musician in Virginia’s 30th Regimental Band, and then on June 1, 1862, he was promoted to principal musician. He distinguished himself as a composer of dozens…

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Charles E. Turner, a port-side artist based in Liverpool of the 1920s presented Cunard with portraits of ships in their fleet. Taylor, Garnett, and Evans Company published the postcards and they became ship store items and passenger favors throughout the decade. Postcard History has the cards.

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