Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Confederate Veteran grew out of a series of circular letters in 1890 soliciting funds for a Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond. The founder was Sumner A. Cunningham, a Tennessee publisher who had lately sold his Chattanooga Times for $300 to an up-&-coming young newspaperman named Adolph Ochs. Cunningham's pamphlets about the memorial fund aroused so much interest among the Grays that he started the monthly magazine to retain that interest. Main features were veterans' reminiscences, historical sketches "to correct erroneous impressions...
...began calling him "Uncle Billy." In the Army of the Tennessee his organizing talents got results. But years of failure had so shaken his self-confidence that he avoided No. 1 jobs, made Lincoln promise never to give him an independent command. But when the victory at Chattanooga made Grant Lincoln's choice for generalissimo, Sherman was put in command in the West. He submitted pessimistically...
Hostility to the Legion's Bonus demand continued to flare elsewhere throughout the land. At Chattanooga ex-soldiery banded together under the name of American Veterans, took a strong anti-Bonus stand. Robert K. Cassatt, Philadelphia banker, resigned from his local Legion post. Another Legion resignee was Major General George B. Duncan, retired, of Lexington, Ky., commander of the 82nd Division. When Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired, an adviser to the National Economy League, announced that he had relinquished an honorary Legion membership, Louis Arthur Johnson, the Legion's new national commander, denied the Legion had any honorary members...
...railroad news of last week was Cincinnati Southern Railway, only municipally-owned steam line in the U. S. The C. S. runs 336 miles between Cincinnati and Chattanooga. It was begun in 1869; the first train ran eight years later. It crosses the Kentucky River on the first cantilever bridge in the U. S., long the proud boast of Cincinnati. In 1881 the road was leased to Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway which later subleased it to Southern Railway. Cincinnati receives $1,259,000 a year in rentals for its railway and its voters have refused to allow...
...Chattanooga, Tenn...