Word: cheatham
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York City gave the Negro mothers the same sort of send-off at City Hall it had given white mothers. As their escort on the American Merchant sailed Maj. General B. Frank Cheatham (retired), onetime Quartermaster General of the Army, who declared...
...General Cheatham was born in Tennessee...
Border Patrolman Cheatham had been chasing Gordon through the woods, whither he had fled when U. S. agents had forced his car into a ditch on the highway. Patrolman Cheatham had "fallen flat over a rock," struck his elbow on a stone, discharged the rifle he was carrying. Getting up, going on, he had come upon Gordon, shot in the back, dying...
They have long been buried who fought and died at Vicksburg, Miss. Where the Confederate Army made its greatest stand, now stands a National Military Park. There was nothing really paradoxical about last week's ceremony at Vicksburg when Major General Frank B. Cheatham, U. S. A., representing Secretary. of War Dwight Filley Davis, accepted for the Federal Government a memorial statue of the president and commander-in-chief of the Confederacy which tried to overthrow that Government, Jefferson Davis...
Secretaries Dwight Filley Davis of War and Curtis Dwight Wilbur of the Navy, and most of their assistants; Attorney General Sargent; Commandant Hanson E. Ely of the Army War College, and 100 officers; Quartermaster-General B. Frank Cheatham; Commandant John A. Lejeune of the Marines, and many another military bigwig, stepped out of motors and trains at the head of Chesapeake Bay one fine morning last week and stuffed cotton or fingers in their ears. They and some 7,000 more or less distinguished civilians were promptly greeted by the cataclysmic detonation, the boiling smoke blast and the vanishing heaven...