Word: fredericksburg
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Engaged. Virginia Dawes, 18, daughter of General Charles Gates Dawes; and Ensign John Gardner Tennent, U. S. N., of Fredericksburg, Va.; in Chicago...
...April 26, 1865, twelve days after the Ford's Theatre tragedy, a dying man was taken from a burning barn near Fredericksburg, Va. by U. S. troopers who believed they had captured and killed Booth. The body, removed to Washington, was hastily identified as Booth's and secretly buried in the Arsenal Grounds. Four years later it was exhumed, removed to Baltimore, again identified by friends and reburied in the Booth lot in Greenmount Cemetery...
Freemasonry reached the British American colonies early, but the first "regular" Lodge was established in Boston in 1733. George Washington was initiated into a Scottish lodge at Fredericksburg, Va., in 1752. More important to the meeting of celebrants last week was the fact that when Washington was sworn in in Manhattan as first President of the U. S. the Grand Master of the New York lodge administered the oath and the local Grand Secretary was marshal of the day. From then on, so many U. S. officials were Masons that in 1826 an Anti-Masonic Party was organized...
...benefit (TIME, Dec. 15). It asked Congress to repeal the provision. Because Congress failed to act, because therefore Section i$a is still the law of the land, the I. C. C. last week made its first final assessment thereunder against a Class I railroad. The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R. R. ("Washington-Richmond Line") was ordered to hand over $891,696.84 as its recapturable excess profit...
...North had collected itself and learned how to fight, Stuart's cavalry had the edge over the Yankees. But every brush cost him some irreplaceable men and horses. Besides skirmishes he was in every big battle in the East: first and second Manassas, the Seven Days' Battle, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Antietam, the Wilderness. When McClellan invaded Virginia, Stuart's 80-mile, 24-hour raid across his rear with 1,800 troopers and four guns established what Capt. Thomason thinks is a record: "I know of no equal exploit in the cavalry annals...