Word: chickamauga
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...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...
...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...