CHAPTER I.
ANTECEDENTS.
The child is father to the man;And I could wish my days to beBound each to each by natural piety.
Wordsworth.
A few preliminary pages of personal history I offer to those who followed me either in thought or deed during the Anglo-Boer War.
My ancestors were Germans; my grandfather was born in the South. About the year 1820 he, along with two brothers, bade farewell to the land of his nativity and emigrated to South...
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