Word: antietam
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When Garfield spoke, the struggle between North and South was but three years over. Many of its men and all of its memories were alive. The names of its battles were like a vast orchestration of the years of war. Manassas and Shiloh, Antietam and Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the Wilderness-the names would be long remembered. Seventy-five years later, on another Memorial Day, the nation was again at war. Again it had become, not merely a people with an army, but a people in arms. The old place names still lingered in the American mind, but now there were...
...which he had just borrowed from the Athenaeum, he felt a touch on his shoulder. "Holmes," a friend said, "you've got your first lieutenant's commission in the Twentieth." Holmes returned the copy of Leviathan, went off to war and a wound in the throat at Antietam. "As he grew older," writes Biddle, "the thought of war came to mean ... a selfless surrender of individual comfort and ambition to some mystic faith that drew brave men together." Said Holmes in a Memorial Day address...
...Civil War, Sherman opened the Atlanta Campaign at 44. ... Stonewall Jackson was 39 when fatally wounded at Chancellorville. . . . Grant was almost 43 at Appomattox. Lee, his opponent, superb in defense and not so good in the offensive campaigns of Antietam and Gettysburg...
...sailors were killed (2,144) than in all World War I (1,233). Total U.S. losses (2,370 dead) in 80 minutes that day exceeded any of the twelve big Civil War battles except the three-day battle of Gettysburg. Said the Army and Navy Register last week: "At Antietam, called the most dreadful day in American history, the total Union loss in soldiers killed was 2,108-considerably less than the casualties at Pearl Harbor...
...infantry outfit in the battle at Contreras in the Mexican War-the only occasion when it had no big guns to work with. Battery D was the first unit rushed to Washington during the Civil War to look after the capital's defenses, saw action at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg. In World War I, the battery spread its death-shade at the Marne, Cantigny, the Argonne, Saint-Mihiel, was among the last units to return from France. Many of its numerous battle streamers were won in World...