Word: antietam
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...Antietam Battlefield, north of Washington, the President spent 40 minutes watching a re-enactment of the bloodiest day of the Civil War. Saving most of his fire for his Constitution Day address in Washington the same evening (see col. 3), he got a cool response to a short speech which contained only one notable reference to the New Deal: "I believe also that the past four years mark the first occasion, certainly since the War Between the States and perhaps during the whole 150 years of our Government, that we are not only acting but also thinking in national terms...
...often visited Mrs. Findlay, said that her face as a little girl was the most beautiful he had ever seen. Last week, Mrs. Findlay gave the President a first-hand account of the incident, urged him to attend the commemoration exercises at the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, in which Captain Holmes was wounded, Sept. 16-17. The President, although scheduled to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the Constitution with a Washington speech the same day, said he hoped to attend...
...understood Longstreet, and once called him affectionately "my old war horse." Longstreet did not understand Lee, and never considered him a first-rate soldier. After the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), where he disagreed with Lee's generalship, he became outspokenly critical of his commander. He also thought little of Stonewall Jackson. Itching for an independent command, Longstreet seized the opportunity, when he was given the Department of Southern Virginia and North Carolina, to augment his army at the expense of Lee's. Ordered to rejoin Lee before the Battle of Chancellorsville, he moved so slowly that he missed...
...left Harvard to join the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers. He was wounded at Ball's Bluff. Antietam and Fredericksburg. He was mustered out in 1864 a captain. Returning to Harvard, he took a law degree, lectured on constitutional law and jurisprudence, edited The American Law Review, practiced briefly in Boston. For 20 years he sat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court. In 1902 President Roosevelt appointed him to the U. S. Supreme Court. There he quickly grew famed for his liberal thought, for the clarity and grace of his expression, for the vigor and regularity with which he dissented from...
...itself and learned how to fight, Stuart's cavalry had the edge over the Yankees. But every brush cost him some irreplaceable men and horses. Besides skirmishes he was in every big battle in the East: first and second Manassas, the Seven Days' Battle, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Antietam, the Wilderness. When McClellan invaded Virginia, Stuart's 80-mile, 24-hour raid across his rear with 1,800 troopers and four guns established what Capt. Thomason thinks is a record: "I know of no equal exploit in the cavalry annals...