Word: donelson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voices echo from the grassy graves of the Civil War-Stonewall Jackson, vibrant and vital, writing his wife about his glory at First Bull Run: "God made my brigade more instrumental than any other in repulsing the main attack"; Ulysses Grant, daring, dazzling, slashing through the sleet against Fort Donelson without benefit of orders: 'Wo terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works"; Robert E. Lee, the superb exemplar, bareheaded astride Traveller at Spotsylvania, held back from leading the charge: "General Lee to the rear, General...
...Tennessee backwoodsman and lawyer to be elected seventh President of the U.S. in 1828. He raced horses, fought Indians, was as handy with a gun as with a legal brief. Mostly, this film biography looks at Jackson (Charlton Heston) through the eyes of his wife (Susan Hayward). When Rachel Donelson Robards married Jackson, there was a legal error about her divorce from her first husband. Two years later, when the error was discovered, Jackson and Rachel were remarried. But Rachel Jackson was often the object of slanderous gossip (Jackson fought duels to defend her honor), and during his campaign...