Word: chickamauga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which all good Southerners insist on calling "The War Between the States." Chickamauga, Gettysburg, Shiloh, The Wilderness are names that mean more to the U. S. than Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood. The flood-tide of histories about the Civil War, with its cross-waves of controversial memoirs and the bickerings of aged generals, has passed, but good books on the subject are still being written. This week appeared the latest and one of the most readable...
...little Kentucky hamlet in the reconstruction days is brought to the screen in the cinema version of Irvin S. Cobb's "Judge Priest." Old men in tattered gray jackets sit whittling on the court-house steps; bearded jaws work the faster at mention of how the Yankees field at Chickamauga; and in the barber shop across the street loafers nudge each other as the girl in crinoline sweeps...
...Cleopatra, "I am dying, Egypt, dying!", and attribute the line to Shakespeare. As a onetime resident of Cleveland TIME ought to know what every Ohioan knows, that the line was authored by Cincinnati's late, great General William Lytle, who was fatally wounded while leading a charge at Chickamauga...
...Civil War was 15 months old before he did any fighting in it. A capable executive, he was found useful in a quartermaster's job. But when at last he got a command with the Army of the Cumberland he came steadily, quickly to the fore. At Perryville, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge he won his spurs, came under the notice of Grant. When Grant was put in command of the Army of the Potomac he sent for Sheridan. President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton looked hard at him, were not very impressed with what they saw: Sheridan...
Forrest was a born fighter; what he had to learn about soldiering he learned at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Hog Mountain, Chickamauga, Brice's Cross-Roads. He had a great contempt for West Pointers. After a disastrous action whose plans he had not approved, his commander, General Stephen D. Lee, called a council of war, asked Forrest if he had any ideas. "Yes, sir," said Forrest. "I've always got ideas, and I'll tell you one thing, General Lee. If I knew as much about West Point tactics as you, the Yankees would whip hell out of me every...