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unusual facts about Eugene B. Sledge



Andrew Beaumont

Andrew's sons were Rear Admiral John Colt Beaumont, US Navy, and Lieutenant Colonel Eugene B. Beaumont, US Army (Medal of Honor Recipient, Civil War).

Eugene B. Crowe

Crowe was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1941).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

Eugene B. Redmond

He has edited two anthologies of African-American poetry and eight works by Henry Dumas.

Eugene B. Van Camp

Van Camp then went absent without leave on Nov. 1, 1862 and was arrested in Berlin, Maryland as a deserter.

In late 1861, the elder Van Camp was imprisoned as suspected spy in downtown Washington in the Old Capitol Prison.

George Alexander Forsyth

On April 23, 1885, at Fort Bowie, Arizona, he married Natalie Sedgewick Beaumont, the twenty-two-year-old daughter of fellow 4th Cavalry officer Eugene B. Beaumont.

Henry Dumas

It was here that he met fellow teacher and poet Eugene Redmond, forming a close collaborative relationship that would prove so integral to Dumas's posthumous career.

USS LST-661

In his memoir With the Old Breed at Pelelieu and Okinawa, Eugene B. Sledge expresses his gratitude to the crew of LST-661.


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