What this card doesn’t say, but what any 1839 person would understand, is that Gen. Reade, after refusing to apologize, was challenged to a duel, and that he refused or somehow ducked, the duel.
Thus he is branded a coward and a scoundrel.
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What this card doesn’t say, but what any 1839 person would understand, is that Gen. Reade, after refusing to apologize, was challenged to a duel, and that he refused or somehow ducked, the duel.
Thus he is branded a coward and a scoundrel.