Word: antietam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came upon a copy of his orders, detailing the exact positions of the divided rebel army. "Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee," said McClellan, "I will be willing to go home." Though he might have defeated Lee once and for all at Antietam, the "young Napoleon" hovered near defeat himself, barely managing to check the invasion...
...just to the long-faced historian, I with my sons have participated in battle re-enactments over the past four years [April 16]. Vicarious though the experience may have been, we can begin to appreciate what Bruce Catton is writing about. We have stood on the heights at Manassas, Antietam and Gettysburg and watched the battle flags advance over the hallowed ground. Forgive us if we do not feel that we were desecrating the memory of our dead any more than those who re-enact the Passion play desecrate the name of the Lord...
...graceful English Renaissance church, but it was one with the Churchillian spirit-militant, sonorous, confident of being in the right. The church that symbolized the survival of the British nation and the hymn that symbolized the endurance of the American Union-the suddenly mingled echoes of Agincourt and Antietam-served to remind the world of a kinship that goes deeper than shifting alliances and new patterns of power. It was an Anglo-Saxon moment that could not have been lost on Charles de Gaulle, among others, and its impact was lessened only by the absence of the President...
...coverage has extended from the marble halls to lesser courts and tribunals, has been almost as diverse as the law itself. It has ranged from the constitutionality of state anti-obscenity laws to a Maryland decision that cows had a perfect right to walk in the road in Antietam Furnace; from the right to counsel to the right of self-defense ("Are Hatpins Enough?"); from women lawyers to law-school journals to a juridical celebration of Shakespeare's 400th anniversary. Such variety, and the thorough analytic effort that goes with it, has won generous applause from the legal profession...
...sight of Farmer Austin Stottlemyer's 50 handsome Holstein cows moseying down the main street of Antietam Furnace might have seemed properly bucolic to a casual visitor. But not to the natives of the little (pop. 51) Maryland village. Stottlemyer was careful to obey the state law-one farm hand walked in front of the herd and one behind-but the villagers complained that the cows obstructed traffic, trampled flower beds, and left a trail of manure that was not only tracked into houses but sometimes caused children to slip and fall perilously close to passing cars. On their...