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...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...
...summary follows: JUNIORS SENIORS Siverware, l.e. r.e., Vaughn, Donelson Edwards, l.t. r.t., Webster Gaul, l.g. r.g., Sibley Hale, c. c., Brown, Worthem Williams, r.g. l.g., D'Annunsio Cowin, r.t. l.t., Snelling, Thorndike Farlow, r.e. l.e., Tryon Archibald, q.b. q.b., Ketchum Weir, Baskerville, l.h.b. l.h.b.,Byer, Sharkey Murphy, r.h.b. r.h.b., Nyhoff Crosby, f.b. f.b., Serinoi
Hostile Submarine Action and the American Seaboard, Contre-Admiral Degouy; Sources for the History of the Mexican War, 1846-48, Justin H. Smith; Fort Donelson, A. L. C.; the Question of Guam, B. H. Richard; Financing the "Armed Nation," Professor O. M. W. Sprague; Editorials: Our Programme; Admiral Degouy; National Defense; The Records of the War of the Revolution; Frontage and Depth. Economic Notes; Tactical Notes; Book Reviews; The Journal of Major-General D. S. Stanley...