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...Edward Pickett, who led the charge at Gettysburg), Jackson served as an artillery officer under Winfield Scott on the epic march from Vera Cruz to the heights of Chapultepec. It was wily General Scott who taught him the military secret on which all his future success was based: scout, flank and pursue. He early showed another trait-a stubborn insistence on perfection-that was invaluable on the battlefield and infuriating off it. His career in the U.S. Army came to a clouded end because of a rancorous quarrel over a finicky point of military etiquette. As professor at Virginia Military...
...Fremont and Shields) in separate actions on succeeding days. When McClellan was strangling Richmond with his siege lines, Jackson broke through a Federal entrapment, raced down the valley to throw Washington into a panic, and then seemingly vanished from the earth-to appear days later on McClellan's flank outside Richmond. With fewer than 20,000 men, Jackson had in effect paralyzed 175,000 enemy troops...
Several local standouts will be playing their last match for the Crimson this afternoon, including flank John Chalsty from the Business School and including seniors Jim Joslin at fly-half, Joe Conzelman in the centre, Ron Eikenberry on the wing, and Bill Shane and captain Terry Turner in the forwards...
...stepped onto a boat. As we peddled along slowly, the ducks dabbled for peanuts, pigeons fluttered and landed on our brass rail, and grackles cawed and clucked on the ponds little island. On the boat itself, two children lost their pinwheels and a third hit a nearby pigeon's flank with a well-aimed peanut. The ride was as the skipper had said, though, smooth, gliding, and graceful--just like a swan...
...Crimson regulars, winger Mike Reynal and flank forward John Chalsty will be missing from today's team. Charles Levine will fill in for Chalsty, with Bill Gill rounding out the fifteen