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Another Yankee breastplate

--‘--Captain Brown, of the Fusileers,"’ attached to the Army of the Peninsula, presented to the Governor on Saturday, for the State, a Yankee breastplate, captured with its owner in the late fight near Williamsburg. One dent, as it from a musket ball, was observable immediately over the region of the heart, and four more lesser ones could be seen in close proximity to the first. The Yankee was evidently saved by his breastplate, which, by a card thereon, was found to have been made in Connecticut, the land of wooden nutmegs and hams. The breastplate is now in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, where it can be seen by the curiously disposed.

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