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...City Council of Fredericksburg, Va. decided that the new abbreviated street signs reading "Jeff Davis Boulevard" were both confusing and improper. People might think they meant Hobo King Jeff Davis instead of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, the Council ruled. It ordered bigger signs to carry the full name "with all the dignity that great man decerves...
...thought," said Union Headquarters Aide Frank Haskell, of the third day's fighting, "that at the second Bull Run, at the Antietam, and at Fredericksburg . . . we had heard heavy cannonading; they were but holiday salutes compared with this . . . great oaks heave down their massy branches ... as if the lightning smote them ... [I saw] a man bent up, with his face to the ground in the attitude of a Pagan worshipped . . . [and] I went and said to him, 'Do not lie there like a toad. Why not go to your regiment and be a man?' He turned...
Colt drove over to the Pratt home in Fredericksburg, piled the packages in the back of his station wagon and brought them back to the red brick museum in Richmond. When he recalls how casually he treated these treasures, he shudders...
Willie Molter, who never says two words if one will do, learned his lesson the hard way. He comes from Fredericksburg, Tex. (pop. 3,500), also the home town of Max Hirsch, trainer of Kentucky Derby winner Assault. As a jockey on dusty, jerkwater tracks in Reno, Emeryville and Butte, Willie blew most of his apprentice salary finding out that nobody could tell who was going to win. Says he: "I couldn't even pick the winners I was riding myself." His toughest job is trying to hold down his five owners (including Movieman Louis B. Mayer, whose second...
...wagon that carried his camera and supplies, were familiar features of the Civil War. Brady's equipment was heavy and he was usually forced to make his pictures after the fighting was over. But he was under fire at Bull Run and Petersburg, was nearly killed at Fredericksburg. The result was a magnificent pictorial record of war (the first and perhaps the best ever made...