Word: appomattox
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...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...
...nation, I would not have surgical instruments to accompany the cake. I do not admit, as suggested, that to omit the surrender scene would be like presenting the play Hamlet with Hamlet left out. . . . I do not think General Grant would desire to have the surrender at Appomattox repeated in a scene. He was too generous. Nor do I think George Washington would want the Yorktown surrender repeated...
...figures of finance is Jeannette M. Lewis. She was born in Ontario approximately 40 years ago, one of the 15 children of prolific Thomas J. Lewis of Hamilton. An older sister was the indefatigable tragedienne Julia Arthur (Lewis) who was born four years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House and insisted on playing Joan...
Robert E. Lee's cavalry general was James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart, killed at Yellow Tavern in the last days of the war, but when somebody asked Lee at Appomattox who was the greatest soldier under his command, Lee answered, "A man I have never seen, sir. His name is Forrest...