I was perhaps unfortunate in not having, as Mr. Peary had, a confederate body of financially interested friends to back me up, as was the National Geographic Society.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Any signal success by this wily chieftain, and his confederate forces might, and probably would, have vastly increased the area of conflict and conflagration.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Among the first, personally to congratulate him, was Ben Hill of Georgia, a distinguished member of the then extinct confederate Congress.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs