{"id":869,"date":"2012-03-30T10:52:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T10:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=869"},"modified":"2012-03-30T10:52:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T10:52:03","slug":"a-soldier-and-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/a-soldier-and-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A SOLDIER AND A MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><strong><em><font size=\"4\">The Nationalist and\n<place w:st=\"on\">Leinster<\/place>\nTimes<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><strong><em><font size=\"4\">29 October 1900<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font size=\"4\"><strong>A soldier and a man<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">&ldquo;A soldier and a man&rdquo; is the term that may be applied to a great old Kildare veteran, John Robinson, a native of Monasterevan and late of the American army. In the year 1863, June 14th, he fought with an infantry regiment at\n<place w:st=\"on\">\n<placetype w:st=\"on\">Fort<\/placetype>\n<placename w:st=\"on\">Hudson<\/placename>\n<\/place>\nfor the Union colours. He was wounded, but yet lives to tell the tale, and says &ldquo;I did not let them pull down the Stars and Stripes.&rdquo; He returned to his native home in 1893, then weighing over 30 stone, and standing about 6 feet 4 inches in height. Though he is ill at present and in hospital in Athy, still Dr. O&rsquo;Neill thinks he has many more years to live. He is now 19 stone weight, and is as intelligent, and his brain as active, as a man much his junior. He is in receipt of a pension of 12<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">s<\/em> weekly from the American Government.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><em>An article from the Nationalist and Leinster Times of 29 October 1900 on American Civil War veteran, John Robinson, from Monasterevin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong><em>An article from the Nationalist and Leinster Times of 29 October 1900 on American Civil War veteran, John Robinson, from Monasterevin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper-articles","category-uncategorised"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}