Word: antietam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northern army twice repulsed, it was Lee's turn to advance. His offensive into Maryland ended with the indecisive shambles of Antietam. Thenceforward Lee was on the defensive, husbanding men and resources, retreating brilliantly, gallantly holding his own until there was no more to hold...
...There were really three Last Men-Peter Hall, 89; Charles Lockwood, 86; John Goff, 85. Sixty-six years ago they had marched off to the Civil War with Company B of the First Minnesota Regiment. Many soldiers of Company B fell at their first battle-Bull Run-many at Antietam, at Gettysburg, at other battles that are history to almost everyone today but are memories to the old men of the Last Man's Club. In 1886 there were only 34 Company B members surviving. In that year those 34 men formed the Last Man's Club. They...
...Born 1841, son of the famed poet-doctor of the same name, Oliver Wendell Holmes served three years in the Civil War as an officer of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers, was wounded in the chest at Ball's Bluff, in the neck at Antietam, in the foot at Fredericksburg. He served 20 years as Associate and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, before being called to the U. S. Supreme Court by President Roosevelt...
...President reviewed the Marines stationed at Quantico as they marched into the White House grounds headed by Major General John Archer Lejeune, following maneuvers on the battlefield of Antietam...