The Marshall Author:Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews 1912. Shipman (Mrs. William Shankland Andrews), is the American author of The Counsel Assigned and The Perfect Tribute. The Marshall begins: On the wall of the large hall of a house in Virginia hang two portraits side by side. Both are of young men, both in uniform; one in the dark blue coat and the white and red of an infantry officer of the Fr... more »ench Empire, the other in that scarlet shirt which came to be a flag, almost as much as a dress, to the heroic band of insurgents who struggled for free Italy against the Austrians. The master of the Virginia house, coming into it today, meets always those two pair of eyes-the eyes of his grandfather the Marquis and of a French peasant to whom his grandfather's youth was linked by ties of more than brotherhood. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.« less