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Reminiscences of the Past
by Dr. Jaquelin Smith Bruce
Dr. Jaquelin Smith Bruce graduated from medi-
cal school and took up the practice of medicine in 1857 in
Virginia. Shortly thereafter, he came to Texas. He did not
resume the practice of medicine until after the Civil War. He
served in the Confederate States Army and was wounded at
the Battle of Manassas.
He was connected to two other prominent
Texans by marriage. He married the daughter of the well
known attorney Robert Jones Rivers, and his daughter
married the United States Representative from Texas, Jo-
seph Jefferson Mansfield.
In 1923, he wrote a series of reminiscences for
the local newspaper, the Eagle Lake Headlight. They were
published in six installments, in the editions of June 23, June
30, July 7, July 14, October 20, and November 24. He died
in 1929 at the age of 93.
Dr. Bruce had a tendency to write long, rambling
sentences that lost their intelligibility before ending. In
editing the articles, these "sentences "have been broken into
two, three, and sometimes four new sentences. Words or
clauses have been added to make the new sentences as
grammatically correct and as readable as possible. Since Dr.
Bruce's reminiscences were originally published in install-
ments, he provided "bridges" at the beginning and end of
each new installment. These have been omitted or altered
to make the narrative continuous. In addition, several para-
graphs within the narrative have been repositioned and
sentences and clauses that were repetitious have been
deleted.
As a man grows old, the tendency to revert to
the scenes of his youth becomes more impressive; the desire
to call up occurrences which took place during that period
takes possession of his mental faculties and he imagines he3
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