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                                ——THE——
                            GRANITE MONTHLY.
        _A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND STATE PROGRESS._
                VOL. II.       APRIL, 1879.       NO. 7.




                        COL. JOHN HATCH GEORGE.


When a biographer encounters the duty of describing, in the abstract, a
character which demands greater elaboration in order to do it reasonable
justice, he must be excused for the roughness of the outlines, which,
with the proper shadings thrown in, would give his descriptive picture
more satisfactory approximation to its required fidelity. In the present
instance limitation of space, and partial opportunity to glean matters
of fa