The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 9
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 28, 1904

TWO EX-CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS

     Among the visitors to Marlin are two exconfederate soldiers whose devotion to the south during its darkest period, was rewarded by advancement to honorable positions in the armies of Secession. General J. R. Johnson of Burnett, who by the way is blind, having lost his sight as a result of two close contact with yankee powder, and Col. Phil Fall of Houston who is now adjutant of Dick Dowling camp and a member of the staff of Gen. Lee, commander of the reunited confederate veterans. Both of these gentlemen are expected at the decoration day exercises this afternoon.

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