Word: appomattox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Volumes III and IV of Douglas Freeman's four-decker definitive life of Robert E. Lee carry on from the aftermath of Chancellorsville and the death of "Stonewall" Jackson (TIME, Oct. 22) to the old age and final illness of the Confederate generalissimo. When the South collapsed at Appomattox, Lee was already suffering from a complicated heart and artery disorder that was never properly diagnosed. But he had a living to make, and he set out to make it. The Northern victory had wiped out his $20,500 in Confederate and Carolina bonds. His lot in Washington had been...
...after the massacre at Jamestown, Va., the good ship Hopewell sailed up the James River to succor those who had settled at a point where the Appomattox flows into the James. For nearly three centuries thereafter the name of Hopewell had no fame. In October 1914 the du Pont company got an order from the French Government to manufacture nitrocellulose for smokeless powder. The No. 1 U. S. munitions concern built a huge nitrocellulose plant and a new town at Hopewell which before the Armistice had become a throbbing city of 40,000 souls. After the Armistice the du Pont...
John Hazard Browning's sons were not sorry when the Civil War came. They wangled a huge contract for soldiers' uniforms out of the Federal Government. After Appomattox they might have gone bankrupt had not a man named Henry W. King joined the firm. War had ruined their southern business, so Henry W. King opened a store in Chicago. It made so much money that the Brownings were glad to add his name to their corporate title, open other stores in the West. Browning, King had a chain of haberdasheries while the late James Butler, founder...
...failing to impose a 10? fine for any cut or tear in a seal "sculp" (fat-lined pelt) one of them brought in. He got his first schooling after he was 25 and rose to be Minister of Marine & Fisheries in his country's Cabinet. Three years after Appomattox he sailed out with the fleet from St. John's on his first seal hunt...
Left By Elizabeth Bacon Custer (TIME, April 17), widow of General George Armstrong ("Last Stand") Custer: $101,492, to relatives and Vassar College; a white towel certified to be the first Confederate flag of truce and a white linen handkerchief used as a truce signal by Custer at Appomattox, to the U. S. War Department; a pine table used in the Grant-Lee surrender ceremony, a letter presenting the table to Mrs. Custer by General Phil Sheridan, Custer's sword & scabbard and other mementoes, to the Smithsonian Institution...