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2nd Lieutenant Santos Cadena details the injuries he received in the American Civil War, the Mexican Reform War, and the Second Franco-Mexican War. Affidavit (5/4/1898) and diagram (3/28/1904) from his Civil War pension file.

Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs

Series: Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of the Army and Navy Who Served Mainly in the Civil War and the War With Spain

Image description: Four diagrams of a man, two showing the skeleton and two showing the outside of the body (without arms). Marked in red ink are “Fracture of Clavicle,” “Wound of Chest,” “Sabre Wound of Arm,” “Wounds of leg,” and entrance and exit of the chest wound.

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GENERAL AFFIDAVIT.

STATE OF Texas, COUNTY OF Duval ss:

In the matter of Santos Cadena - late Co “B” 2nd Tex, Cavly Vols,

ON THIS 4th. day of May, A.D. 1898., personally appeared before me, a Notary Public in and for the aforesaid County and State, duly authorized to administer oaths Santos Cadena, aged 68 years, a resident of Rancho Salado, in the County of Starr and State of Texas, who, being duly sworn, declares in relation to aforesaid claim as follows:

I received a gunshot wound of the left nipple or chest in front of Matamoros in the year 1866 under the command of General Mariano Escobedo, of the Mexican Liberal Army,

I received a Gunshot wound in the left leg in year 1860 in a battle at Gunajuata Mexico, with General Jose Maria. J. Carabajal, of the Mexican Liberal Army,

I received a Saber cut of the left arm in the action of Sialo. West of Guanajuata Mexico, under command of General Carabajal of the Mexican Liberal army,

I had my collar bone broken in the service of the United States near La Trinidad Ranch in Nueces County Texas, in the year 1864 I was a second Lieutenant and was sent out by Colonel J L. Naynes, of the 2nd. Texas Cavalry Volunteers to get some horses for the command and in running the Horses to take them to the pens my horse fell and broke my collar bone, None of the foregoing wounds were caused by Viscious habits,

The Gunshot wound in left nipple, and the Gunshot wound in left leg and the saber cut in left arm were received by my while I was in the Mexican Army, in 1860 I was fighting for Mexico against the Reacitionary or Church party in Mexico, and in 1866 I was fighting against the Imperialists who had invaded my country, I am a Mexican by birth but am an American Citizen,

He further declares that he has [“no” crossed out] interest in said case and is [“not” crossed out] concerned in its prosecution. He being the applicant.

X [signed] Clemente Pompa

X [signed Imalio[?] Perez

His

Santos X Cadena

Mark

NOTE.- In the execution of evidence, whenever a witness signs by X mark, two persons WHO CAN WRITE, MUST attest the signature by signing their names opposite.

[circular stamp]

PENSION

OFFICE

MAY 9 1898

[end stamp]

[along left margin]

The foregoing was prepared for typewriting from the statements of the witness in his presence and from my oral statements then made, said oral statements were made to Jas. O. Luby, Notary Public Duval County Texas, at his office in San diego said County and State, May 4th. 1868. And did not use and was not aided or prompted by any printed statement or recital, prepared or dictated by any other per so

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narrie · 4 years

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Could you give me a short recap about Niall's live? I'm having finals so I don't have time to keep up with him a lot

he gave a rundown for all the songs from hbw, here’s a very accurate summary 🤪 i’ll put my #memories under the read more, so really all i can recall from watching it once yesterday so not the complete thing but therefore probably the most important bits:

he gave a disclaimer at the beginning, saying there’s a story and those songs tie together, other songs are not from his pov, could be from his friends’ or about smth that was said and he wrote it down etc

heartbreak weather: he had just moved to la so “it can be so lonely in this city” is about that, he talked about going to a lot of parties and pubs back then and that the line “sleepwalk livin” ties into that. the verses are about smth that happened in san jose when the relationship started, they were watching a bruno mars special in a hotel room

black and white: he just repeated what he already said before about being excited and in love and wanting to marry that person right away, “u fall hard and quick”, he talked about the imagery of a black suit and a white dress at a wedding, “it’s out now !”

dear patience: again, already talked about it; it’s about talking to himself and saying “hold on a sec man hold on-”, like a speedbump after the first two songs

bend the rules: a song about doubts u might have at the beginning of a relationship, not factual for the storyline

small talk: smth that happened after the relationship ended and then he....talked about eating candy? JDHSGSD i don’t even know, he tried so hard to not talk about s e x, he was like “i went thru a breakup and even tho i NEVER had a sweet tooth i suddenly craved chocolate” 😭

ntmy: we heard him tell this story a million times

he skipped pallom but came back later when he realized but i missed it all bc i was freaking out over no judgement but honestly u heard that a million times as well, i think he talked about the shadow lyric in tmta

arms of a stranger: skipped it as well and came back later to talk about dreaming the 2nd verse

everywhere: it’s about when u break up with someone and u think u see that person everywhere afterwards, “in my case i WAS seeing that person everywhere”, he almost stopped and walked up to a person at the train station once bc he thought it was them

cross ur mind: he put a lot of respect and LOVE on this song (he said he really loved writing it and talked a lot about the process), the chorus came first but it makes the least sense in the song? the lyrics are VERY personal and relate to smth (“if u don’t come back tomorrow at least u came tonight - all very personal stuff” 📝)

new angel: “i could’ve said ‘new person’ but the angel thing has a background story”, it’s about getting over the past relationship and about smth dark...

no judgement: “NO JUDGEMENT IS A DIFFERENT STORY. NO JUDGEMENT IS ABOUT SOMEONE I’VE KNOW FOR A VERY LONG TIME. WE’VE KINDA HAD A RELATIONSHIP WHERE WE’RE BEST MATES SLASH......U KNOW!” he went thru this so fucking fast, i couldn’t keep uP but it’s about harry #confirmed

san fran: it is not about san francisco, but “san jose” didn’t rhyme as well. it’s about longing to go back to the start after all that heartbreak, reference to the first song (the beginning of the album/story)

still: he wrote it in 15 min, it’s self-explanatory (he deadass told the same story as harry did for falling but no comment)

dress: he spotted a dress of his ex in his closet and it was the one that person was wearing in a picture of them two they had as their phone background pic and then he was like “ugh what do i do with this”, he also sang the song and deadass forgot the lyrics SDJGNDSKM

nothing: (or: the beast) “what does this, what does that - NOTHING”, he mentioned fucking l*ttle bl*ck dr*ss here and i’m still mad about it .

#ask #nh2 #hope this helps!!#insta live

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2018 Season Predictions

By podcast co-host, Kevin McCaffrey

This’ll be a long one, so BUCKLE IN!

NL EAST Washington Nationals NY Mets Philadelphia Phillies Atlanta Braves Florida Marlins

The only “interesting” thing here is that I could see 2-4 in any order. I think the Phillies are almost overhyped as a possible breakout team, but they have a weak division to beat up on...just like everyone else. I think the Mets land a couple of games above .500 and are in the wild card mix late.

NL CENTRAL Chicago Cubs St. Louis Cardinals* Milwaukee Brewers Pittsburgh Pirates Cincinnati Reds

I think the Cubs are, uh, the best team in the NL on paper? And with extreme bias, I probably put them #2 behind the Astros overall, right in the mix with Nats/Yankees/Indians. The tough part is that I do believe the Cardinals are going to Cardinals it up this season and be 5 wins better than they have any reason to be (Jose Martinez, with good playing time, I really believe in as a kind of Bautista-lite late-ish career breakout). The Brewers I think *should* be a touch better than the Cardinals, but I don’t think they *will* be. They really needed one more starter this offseason, and I’m not sure they have the farm system to deal for one mid-season stud...though their GM David Stearns I think is really good, and as a Cubs fan, bothers me.

NL WEST LA Dodgers Arizona Diamondbacks* Colorado Rockies SF Giants SD Padres

(Dumb guy voice that is identical to my actual voice) “The Dodgers don’t scare me!” Except, they kind of don’t. With Turner hurt, that lineup gets un-scary very quickly. He’ll be back, sure, but hand and wrist injuries can be long lingering poison to hitters (as I get deeply sad, thinking about Derrek Lee post-’05). The Diamondbacks are my reluctant pick for the 2nd wild card, as I feel like I could flip a coin between them and the Brewers. The Rockies I believe so little in, with a weak lineup and decent young, but hard-to-count-on pitching, that I had them 4th behind the Giants before everyone on that team died.

AL East NY Yankees Boston Red Sox* Toronto Blue Jays Baltimore Orioles Tampa Bay Rays

I’ve heard a lot of analysts say the Rays still shouldn’t be that bad, and that they aren’t “tanking” (Olney & ESPN types, mainly), and I know there are projections that always love the Rays no matter what. But they have a 4-man pitching staff, and they have 3 pitchers. So, last. The Orioles are weird but always better than they should be, I think the Blue Jays have a pretty solid year in what could be the end of the Donaldson era. Of the teams everyone thinks are playoff locks (Nats/Cubs/Dodgers/Yanks/Red Sox/Indians/Astros), I think the Red Sox are the most likely to just whiff it. It feels like they’re one key injury away from being kind of middling. Take out any one of Betts, Martinez, Sale, even Bogaerts, and they look good, but, eh. The Yankees are, annoyingly, going to be awesome for at least 8 years now.

AL CENTRAL Cleveland Indians Minnesota Twins Chicago White Sox Kansas City Royals Detroit Tigers

Woof, the bottom of this division. The Indians thank you for your fast-pass to the offseason. Because of that weak-ass schedule, my head tells me the Twins are the other wild card, but my heart tells me it’s a team from the city that invented the “fast pass” for their theme park. I love the Twins bargain shopping, going against the grain in an offseason when that meant just paying a little bit good players (Morrison, Lynn). If Cleveland can keep their pitchers healthy at the end of the year -- and the weak schedule could let them pull a 2017 Dodgers and fake DL guys mid-season for rest -- they could really go on a run...kind of like they did during the regular season, last year.

AL WEST Houston Astros Anaheim Angels* Texas Rangers Oakland A’s Seattle Mariners

Well, the Astros are the best, and they got better. I made money betting on them at the beginning of the playoffs last year, when it seemed everyone was on the Dodgers or the Indians, but I literally put my money on a historically good offense. I like those. They made a great trade that I wish the Cubs made for Verlander, added Cole, and all I can say is thank God they had moments of pure idiocy a few years ago when they waived pre-breakout JD Martinez and passed on Kris Bryant, because if they didn’t do those things, we’d just have to hit fast-forward until they stopped winning titles, and I’m not ready for 2022 yet. The Angels, man, c’mon. They’re maybe my #1 team to tune into when the Cubs aren’t on via MLB.TV (which somehow gets worse every year, from a technical standpoint -- my next story: “The At Bat App Is Tanking”), and thank God they finally went all-in to get decent older dudes to surround Trout with in Cozart and Kinsler, and re-signing Upton. Billy Eppler is really smart, and good, and even though getting Shohei Ohtani is largely through luck of location and the inequality of rules between the two leagues, they still got him, and that’s fun. So, what the hell, Angels for the 2nd wild card because them in the playoffs would be friggin’ cool. And the Mariners rebuild, once they start it, should have them really good by about 2025, when Felix is throwing one of his last opening day starts.

PLAYOFFS

Wild Card Cardinals over Diamondbacks Angels over Red Sox

Division Series Nationals over Dodgers Cubs over Cardinals Astros over Angels Indians over Yankees

League Championship Series Cubs over Nationals Indians over Astros

World Series Cubs over Indians in 7

Jeez, there are a lot of teams tanking, but this October is going to be a gauntlet of incredible teams. Every year is a year when “any team could win” in the playoffs, because that’s how the future works, but this year is one where it’s possible that almost any team *should* win.

I think the Cubs and Nationals will battle it out for a very important #1 spot in the NL, which could be rough for the Cubs looking at the Nationals division. Loser plays a rough series against the Dodgers, and goes into the next series with a disadvantage, as the Cubs did last year, heading to LA completely depleted. Fingers crossed the Cubs dispatch with the Cardinals in a very stressful NLDS, and the Cubs once again knock out the Nats, with a great 4-man rotation and Chatwood turning into a high-leverage bullpen weapon, plus whatever reliever Theo gets at the deadline (my prediction is Zach Britton).

In the AL, there’s part of me that just wants to say Mike Trout wins all the games by himself. But if that doesn’t happen, the Astros are the best team, the Yankees could score 8-10 runs just about every game...and yet, I’m saying this sneaky, historically good rotation in Cleveland puts a run together, choking the life out of every offense on their way to the World Series.

In storytelling, you’d have Cleveland take down the Cubs in a 2016 rematch, now with their rotation more than just Kluber and spare parts. But I think the Cubs rotation is just about the only one with the depth to matchup with Cleveland, and the Cubs might have more of an AL offense than the Indians. The pitching plays to about a draw, and the Cubs bats give them the title in 7...at Wrigley. Cleveland gets the consolation prize of getting to continue the claim of being the longest suffering franchise, which they’ve held for a full two years now.

The Cubs find themselves one title short of being able to claim a semi-official “dynasty,” with three more seasons left in the current window.

Or at least, that’s what I think will happen.

AWARDS

MVP

NL: 1. Bryce Harper 2. Kris Bryant 3. Anthony Rizzo

I honestly think this could/should be Bryant, and my heart wants Rizzo to get one of these for his future HOF case, but Harper in a walk year, but more importantly in a year he knows might be his last with a great Nats core, has him go on a high-profile tear.

AL: 1. Carlos Correa 2. Mike Trout 3. Giancarlo Stanton

It’s probably Trout, but let’s get slightly weird. Correa finished in the top 10 in MVP voting last year in less than 110 games, he’s on the best team, and the team played waaaaay better with him active last year. He’ll still likely be the 2nd best player on his team but voters won’t go Altuve again. Stanton hits bombs, you probably heard.

CY YOUNG

NL: 1. Stephen Strasbourg 2. Kyle Hendricks 3. Max Scherzer

Stras’s performance in game 4 of the NLDS was a real turning point in an already great career. With all the weirdness leading up to his maybe not pitching, if he bombed, that narrative would have stuck forever (like Kershaw/playoffs, as stupid as it is). But he dominated a great Cubs lineup, he has three plus-plus-plus pitches, his changeup is actual wizardry that should be outlawed, and he and Bryce go nuts in this last year of the Washington window. Hendricks rules, and people will never realize how much until maybe his 200th win. Scherzer’s maybe my favorite non-Cubs pitcher, and I’ve got him in the top 3 over Kershaw just because of Clayton’s back.

AL: 1. Carlos Carrasco 2. Corey Kluber 3. Chris Sale

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

NL: 1. Scott Kingery 2. Ronald Acuna 3. Nick Senzel

Acuna seems like he’s gonna be a star of stars, but this could be a year where Kingery simply gets more counting stats, as he’s not having his service time manipulated (well, with the contract he signed, you could argue he still *is* being manipulated, but whatever). Acuna might be the best rookie since Bryant. Senzel’s a reach, just anticipating an injury and him coming up, playing out of position at SS, and hitting a bunch of homers in that mini-park.

AL: 1. Shohei Ohtani 2. Michael Kopech 3. Willie Calhoun

I believe in Ohtani! I think he’ll hit 12-15 homers, and be a solid #3 starter this year. Kopech could be Verlander. Calhoun is a position-less fire hydrant who might hit 25 homers in part of a year.

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robertkstone · 7 years

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Woodward Dream Cruise: GM Designers Show Off

The beauty of the Woodward Dream Cruise is that it’s an excuse to embrace car culture for the full week leading up to it. And if you work for an automaker, it can be a ticket to bring your favorite project car to work and a hall pass to leave the office for the day.

The cruise might technically not be until Saturday, Aug. 19, but General Motors on Tuesday celebrated the 8th annual Design on Woodward. It is an employee enthusiasm event for the design organization.

Almost 100 cars were registered to take part, starting with a gathering of vehicles from a Model A hot rod to current Camaros and Corvettes and everything in between, brought lovingly to work by design staff. Then at noon, under police escort, a caravan made its way from GM’s tech center on a 10-mile cruise to Memorial Park in Royal Oak, right on Woodward. You know you are in Detroit when motorists at blocked intersections sit back and admire instead of fuming over the short but unanticipated delay. This is the first year using Memorial Park, but it proved an idyllic lawn to park cars for the afternoon to be admired.

Here are some of the cars we checked out.

1949 Cadillac Coupe de Ville Series 62

Father Joe Nemecek and sons Jacob and Josh all work in GM Design. This smooooth restomodded Caddy belongs to a family friend, and the Nemeceks have helped do much of the work on it. Beneath the shaved skin (the door handles have been removed and replaced by electric latches operated from behind the flip-up taillamp), lurk many nonoriginal bits. The front suspension is from a ’71 Plymouth Barracuda, the engine is a ’96 Cadillac Northstar V-8 (with its top covers painted beige to match the roof), and it runs a 9.0-inch Ford rear axle. Josh says it’ll do 90 mph with ease and get 18 mpg.

1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396

Bryan Campbell, a studio engineer with the global architectural studio, loves Chevelles and GTOs. He found this one in Michigan in 1989. It is an original SS 396, but it does not have the original engine. Campbell restored it the way he envisions it: with an LQ9 Escalade truck engine with LS heads. Like most project cars, it is still a work in progress. His current focus: an over-the-top interior.

1972 Nissan Skyline GT

This stunning JDM gem has been restored almost entirely by owner Jose Gonzales, who works in the GMC truck studio. The labor of love took about five years, the last two of which were mostly spent sorting out the mechanicals. Right now it’s running an L28 inline-six bored out to 3.0 liters, but he has one that’s out being restored and runs an 85mm stroke crank for 3.2 liters. The car started life as a GT with flat-topped rear wheel openings, but Gonzales has rounded the arches and added GT-R style flares and has mounted BRIDE racing seats from Japan. The stunning finished product recently took home a Lion award from the Concours of America at St. John’s.

1999 Pontiac Trans Am Ram Air WS6 30th Anniversary Edition

Ralph DeWitt is a digital modeler working in Global Brand Identity. He has one of the 535 Pontiac Trans Am 30th Anniversary Special Edition convertibles made in Quebec before the car was discontinued. Of the 535 made, 35 were for Canada; the rest for the U.S. DeWitt has had it for five years, and he knew the previous owner. He also knows the car. He was part of the production styling team that worked on it in clay form in the mid-1990s. He was told his Ram Air Trans Am was a pace car used to carry former astronaut Buzz Aldrin around the Daytona 500 just before the car became available in 1999. The car is all stock except a modified exhaust. The badging on the back says it all: LS1-sick and twisted.

1956 Chevrolet pickup truck “Silverod”

Tom Raleigh of the Advanced Design studio shows off the barn find that his younger son found in Port Huron, Michigan, 12 years ago. It has been “mildly worked on” including adding “Silverod” to the tailgate. The truck has its original steel, original gunmetal metallic paint, and a 327 with mild cam. It gets used. The original wood in the bed has been covered in landscaping material. Every year he says he will redo the wood, but it hasn’t happened yet. As he makes plans to retire in Charleston, it could happen. And this could also be his last Woodward Dream Cruise in the truck that has lawn chairs in the bed for fellow cruisers to join the ride. Raleigh has had old ‘Vettes and Buicks, but the truck is low maintenance, the most fun and “stupid loud” with cherry bombs. “In second it starts backfiring like a howitzer.”

1986 Lamborghini Jalpa

John Mack serves as Design Manager in Chevrolet’s Performance Studios, and he’s a big fan of Italian design. He already owned some Alfas when he set his sights on acquiring one of Carrozzeria Bertone’s most quintessential designs: the mid-engine V-8 Lamborghini Jalpa. “I love Bertone’s aesthetic,” he says. “It’s blocky and masculine where Ferraris tend to be softer and more feminine shapes.” He has no plans to modify this pristine example (the 386th of 410 ever built), and he reports having comparatively few mechanical troubles with his exotic. Just some accelerator cable issues, which are mostly resolved.

1963 Buick Riviera

Adam Bernard now serves as GM’s associate director of competitor intelligence, but he’s “grandfathered in” to Design on Woodward from his days as a design analysis manager in the 1990s, and he serves as an associate faculty member at Detroit’s College for Creative Studies. So it’s no wonder that when he set out to acquire a Buick Riviera, he insisted on the original—which hews most closely to former GM Design honcho Bill Mitchell’s orders to Buick chief Edward Rollert to design “a cross between a Ferrari and a Rolls-Royce.” He loves the first-year-only aircraft style slider controls and the accessory purse hook (a $1.25 dealer accessory).

1929 Model A Hot Rod

Sculptor Todd Storrs built a roadster from a lot of parts bins. In his regular job he builds show cars and concepts for GM, which must be perfect under the auto show lights. The roadster is his therapy car, built from found parts, no rules, and is anything but perfect. He used the book Birth of Hod Rodding as his guide and started with a steering wheel and an engine, neither of which he ended up using. It is a tribute to original hot rods; an ode to speed, not beauty. It was built with six decades of car parts ground and welded to fit. It has an original patina but a small block engine that looks like a 331 V-8 engine from a ’55 Cadillac. Riding in it is like going 100 mph on a wild mouse carnival ride. Storrs says. Along for the ride: a picture of Rita Hayworth tacked to the passenger-side panel.

1991 GMC Syclone

Retired experimental powertrain engineer Richard Reider owns this two-door pickup built for the 1991 model year and only offered in black. He has number 2,287 of the 2,950 made, and everything is original except the boost gauge he added because the original was too hard to see. The truck chassis and body were built at the Shreveport assembly plant but then sent to ASC (American Sunroof Corporation) to get the cladding, the modified 4.3-liter turbocharged V-6, and the bespoke interior including special seats with a lumbar package that involves squeezing a ball similar to the pump on a blood pressure machine. Reider found the Syclone in Ohio six years ago using Craigslist. He had not driven it in three years, but his daughter Jen Kostrzewa works at the design center and encouraged her dad to get his historic vehicle license to take part in the cruise.

1970 Pontiac GTO

The first thing that caught our eye on this baby was the almost stock-looking alloy Pontiac rally wheels. The originals were steel, often worn with trim rings, but owner Jim Ciolfi explained that YearOne Muscle Car Parts sells 8.0-by-17.0- and 9.0-by-17.0-inch billet or cast wheels that look stockish while greatly increasing the car’s footprint and stance. Jim had a GTO like this in high school and acquired this one in great shape, but he has enjoyed dressing it up with carbon-fiber trim inside, white vinyl gage faces, and ambient lighting. Future plans include more carbon fiber—a front splitter and new hood vent inlets.

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Woodward Dream Cruise: GM Designers Show Off

Here are some of the cars we checked out.

1949 Cadillac Coupe de Ville Series 62

1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396

1972 Nissan Skyline GT

1999 Pontiac Trans Am Ram Air WS6 30th Anniversary Edition

1956 Chevrolet pickup truck “Silverod”

1986 Lamborghini Jalpa

1963 Buick Riviera

1929 Model A Hot Rod

1991 GMC Syclone

1970 Pontiac GTO

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Woodward Dream Cruise: GM Designers Show Off

Here are some of the cars we checked out.

1949 Cadillac Coupe de Ville Series 62

1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396

1972 Nissan Skyline GT

1999 Pontiac Trans Am Ram Air WS6 30th Anniversary Edition

1956 Chevrolet pickup truck “Silverod”

1986 Lamborghini Jalpa

1963 Buick Riviera

1929 Model A Hot Rod

1991 GMC Syclone

1970 Pontiac GTO

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