Word: 157th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cumberland, Ann had followed her father down into Georgia, inside the Confederate lines. But those were the days when Confederate lines were drawing in. Just before the two armies fumbled their way into a big battle, Robert found Ann again. Next day, with his fellow-privates of the 157th Indiana, he fought and ran and came back to fight again. When the interminable day was ended he neither knew nor cared which side had won: all he thought about as the surgeon gave him chloroform was, not to let them cut off his leg at the knee...
...celebrate the 157th anniversary of the Battle of Concord, Governor Joseph Buell Ely of Massachusetts went to Schenectady, impersonated an embattled farmer, fired a "shot heard round the world." In a broadcasting studio radio technicians wielded powder horn, ramrod and wadding, loaded a Revolutionary Brown Bess flintlock. At 7:30 a. m., hour when the Concord skirmish began, Governor Ely nervously pulled the trigger. It clicked inef⅛fectively-an official fired a revolver. In ⅛ of a second the sound was flashed to Kootwijk, Holland, relayed to Bandung, Java, thence to Sydney, Australia and back to Schenectady...