Word: antietam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is opportunity. While searching for a nuclear accommodation with the Soviet Union, the U.S. seems to be showing more understanding of our power, both military and economic. Holmes contended that character emerged from adversity, heroes from heroics. There are no more battles of Ball's Bluff or Antietam with trumpets and cannons, but it is a time for our own brand of heroics and heroes, men and women who in these next months can bring new and bold ideas to preserve peace even among contending societies in the nuclear...
...President laughed about Hood's boys at last getting a hot breakfast at Antietam when they were interrupted by a Union charge; they were so mad that they stopped the superior Yankee force in its tracks. Carter was tickled by the account of how the cannons at Antietam stirred up the hives of bees kept by the farmers. One Pennsylvania regiment had 127 bee stings. The President leaned on the bridge over Antietam Creek where General Burnside with four divisions had been stalled for hours by Robert Toombs with a few hundred of those beloved Georgian sharpshooters...
Jimmy Carter went back to Camp David that night a wiser man. He cannot plan the future from what he saw and felt last week at Gettysburg or Antietam. But he could not lead without...
...more. On a worn piece of paper he scrawled. "I am Capt. O W Holmes 20th Mass son of Oliver Wendell Holmes M.D. Boston," He later explained in his Civil War Diary. "I wrote the above when I was lying in a little house on the held of Antietam which was for a while within the enemy's lines as I thought I might faint and so be unable to tell...
...Fair tells it, Burnside was so bad that he won at least one small victory-at New Bern, N.C., in 1862-simply because the Confederates were taken by surprise by his aggressive imbecility in storming well-protected defenses. On other occasions he was less lucky. At the battle of Antietam, for example, he spent hours trying to take a bridge to cross a shallow creek that his men could easily have waded. Burnside's delay cost the Union a victory that might have changed the course of the war. True to form in such matters, Burnside was subsequently promoted...