Word: chickamauga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs, Ga. for ten days or more went Franklin Roosevelt, detoured to Chattanooga to inspect TVA's Chickamauga Dam. Twenty-one drunks were let out of jail...
Died. Major General John Lincoln Clem. 85, U.S.A. retired, "Drummer Boy of Chickamauga"; in San Antonio. Tex. Last Civil War veteran on the active list (until 1916), and youngest U. S. soldier ever to win a sergeant's chevrons. Orphan John Clem joined the Army by stowing away at 10 in a baggage car bound for a mobilization camp at Covington. Ky. He met the Civil War President in 1864, and decided to take Lincoln for his middle name...
Unreconstructed Southerners regard the Civil War as a series of tragic blunders, can still wonder what the outcome might have been if Bragg had not been so dilatory after Chickamauga, if Longstreet had not been so slow at Gettysburg, if Lee's genius had not been hamstrung by Jefferson Davis' defensive policy. Even some Northerners, looking around at what the U. S. has become and back at what the South was, can see that the Civil War might have been a tragic mistake, can wonder whether reducing the South to the lowest common denominator of the Union...
...down from the bench to fight a duel. Jittery Broderick put his bullet in the ground; Terry put his through Broderick's breast. A jury acquitted him of murder, but he was still struggling to rebuild his Stockton law practice when the Civil War broke out. Wounded at Chickamauga, Terry was a Confederate brigadier before the war ended. Afterward he tried sheep and cotton in Mexico, then went back to Stockton for a third try at the Law. As a foe of the moneyed interests, he helped rewrite California's constitution, helped beat George Hearst for Governor...
...appear, are marred by many a lampy smudge. The narrative opens after the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run to Northerners), once gets dangerously near Gone With the Wind territory, touches such historic happenings as the fall of Fort Donelson, Forrest's raid on Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga. Principal characters are the Allard family, aristocratic Kentuckians. Jim, the elder son, lamed by a riding accident, stayed home; but Ned went, was captured, finally released from a Yankee prison a broken man. George Rowan married one of the Allard girls, was enjoying his favored position as aide...