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Excerpt from Rear-Admiral William Branford Shubrick: A Sketch
The country can ill afford to lose the memory of its best men. Every pure and upright life has an inherent value much beyond ordinary calculation. But when a manly life thus pure, thus upright, and prolonged to a period of more than fourscore years, is given with noble fidelity to the public service, it attains a dignity which commands our grateful homage.
William Branford Shubrick, the sixth son and ninth child of a family of sixteen: was born October 81, 1790, on Bull's Island, one of those islands of the Southern sea board yielding the beautiful long cotton of Carolina. The island, which derived its name from Governor Bull, was then the property of Colonel Thomas Shubrick, who had rendered gallant service to the country in. The war of the Revolution, entering the army when little more than twenty, and acting successively as aid to General Lincoln and to General Greene in the most important campaigns of the Southern department.
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