Crossword-Solution: DEMENT 6 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Colonel Dement, from whom the regiment was to be named, and whose military career was only now about to commence, had come late into the field.

Raynor? Don’t you know—” “I am ashamed to say, darling, that it was through that unworthy person’s invitation that I came here from Vienna.” Irene, they have played it upon your affectionate friend, MARY JANE DEMENT.

Major John Dement, of Vandalia, was elected to the command of a spy battalion composed of three companies.

There had been stationed at the grove two companies of Regulars, commanded by Major Riley, and three companies of Volunteers that had abandoned this position the day before the arrival of Major Dement, and left the country without protection and entirely unguarded.

Major Dement's command numbered one hundred and forty men, all told, not one of whom had ever seen any military experience, but they were men to be relied upon.