Word: donelson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rarely actualized figures like Grant, Forrest, Bragg, Longstreet and Polk 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...
Andrew Jackson's relict was ostracized in Washington society for smoking her proverbial pipe and being a divorcee. . . . Unlike Mrs. Roosevelt, who as TIME states, smokes only for purpose of placing her guests at ease, Mrs. Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson thoroughly enjoyed the relaxation provided by her tobacco...
...racing, card-playing, mischievous fellow that ever lived in Salisbury." His mother's parting advice he never forgot: "Andy . . . never tell a lie. nor take what is not your own, nor sue . . . for slander. . . . Settle them cases yourself." Andy settled them, he never sued. When he courted Rachel Donelson Robards, another man's wife, and married her in all innocence before she was technically divorced, the affair became a perennial source of affronts which he was quick to resent. In his famed duel with Charles Dickinson, a crack shot. Jackson expected to be hit first but counted...
Died. Mrs. Delia Claiborne Buckner, relict of General Simon Bolivar Buckner; of pneumonia; in Louisville, Ky. A Captain in the Mexican War, her husband was the Confederate Brigadier-General who surrendered Fort Donelson to his old friend General Grant. Governor of Kentucky from 1887 to 1891, he was nominated for Vice President by gold-standard Democrats when they bolted William Jennings Bryan's free-silver ticket...
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...