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Show Fight Oct Port Hudson i Promlaed Medala ol Honor I Not Given 10 torlorn Hop I fKTKIt the second repulao of the t'nlou fnrcea at Port Hud-, Hud-, ami, I .a., June 14. lsi',:i, (Ion. HniiKB callml fnr a forlorn hope nf l.niiii men. In hla anxiety hu proinlHod. anioiiK olhor thliiKa, "a nioital of hniinr." anil thla proiulao, made by the hlKlieat ofllclnl In the department at that time, was a hlnillnR contract whose terms thu Roveriiiiient Bhuuld havo fulfilled liromplly, hut baa not. Klronumis ef. fnrta to this end havo boon imiuu I frnm lime tu time, but Ineffectually up to the present tlmo. |