Word: deaconal
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...Crazy Deacon was the only one of Lee's generals who had shown brilliance and had won a decisive engagement. Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson, 38, a mediocre instructor at Virginia Military Institute, a devout Presbyterian deacon, had been wounded in the hand at Manassas and had fought for the rest of the day with one arm upraised to stop the bleeding. Some of his men thought he was invoking the blessing of heaven. When another officer rode up to say, "General, they are beating us back," Jackson replied: "Sir, we'll give them the bayonet...
...fresh details is the fact that Jackson dug out an expert cartographer and had him make good maps of the whole Blue Ridge region. He also drew up tables that would show him at a glance the distance between any two points in his territory. Other officers, unaware of Deacon Jackson's attentive preparations, sometimes agreed with Cavalryman "Dick" Ewell that he was crazy...
Kirkland could make no headway through the heavy Adams line and finally took to the air; but the heaves of Broderick and Gene Sands connected only once when a touchdown pass to "Mole" Logan was called back because another Deacon touched it first...
...fourth quarter, M a n e g o l d blocked a Kirkland kick and the Gold Coasters took the ball on the Deacon three. After three line plays failed, Kieran Culliton passed to Al Hartwig for a score...
Kirkland scored a double triumph over Lowell in the recently started touch football leagues as the upperclassmen won, 3 touchdowns to 2, and the Freshmen did even better with a four touchdown margin, winning 6 to 2. Jack Dixon, throwing passes for the Deacon upperclassmen, rang up a .500 pitching averages age as two of his passes connected for Kirkland touchdowns, while two were intercepted and gave Lowell its scoring opportunities...