Mel Lempriere

Lieutenant Colonel Mel Lempriere was an artillery commander in the Confederate Army. He was a veteran of the Great War. From his accent, one could tell he was from New Orleans.

In 1941 he and his friend Major Ted Griffith joined Lt. Col. Tom Colleton in the officers' club in Fort Mahan. The talk turned to women and "sporting houses". When asked by Colleton, Lempriere denied the women in them avoided the cure in order to infect Confederate soldiers. The two Colonels continued to exchanged tall tails of exploits past, late into the night, much to the amusement and disbelief of Major Griffith.