
#1533 A Conversation with Hamilton Scholar Hal Bidlack
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The Dueling Ground in New Jersey
Hamilton's son Philip just a couple of years earlier was cut down in a duel on that very spot and so that that haunts this story with the same pistols. I cannot imagine the burden especially when one arrives on that halfway up that bluff as the seconds are doing their little chores and pistols are being loaded to think about the enormity of what had happened there just two years before, he says.
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