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    BRIGADIER GENERAL Jean Napoleon Zerman

    Oct 04, 2022 2 minutes

     was an enigmatic soldier of fortune, with an incredible knack for hairbreadth escapes. He spent a fair time in and out of prisons and evaded execution on more than one occasion. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln nominated him as a brigadier general of volunteers—nearly adding U.S. general to his extraordinary resumé had Congress not had

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