Word: fredericksburg
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...furloughs had just been summarily postponed. The 44th had got the rush act for a warlike job. It was disposed in the famed cockpit of the Civil War, in Virginia, where Lee, Jackson and Grant had sparred and pounced. The 44th's job: to take Fredericksburg, defended by a regular outfit whose size the 44th did not know...
...bullet that sliced through young Holmes's neck came out the other side. He survived the wound to be: 1) wounded for the third time at Second Fredericksburg; 2) made a lieutenant colonel in the Union Army; 3) professor of law at Harvard; 4) Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court; 5) editor of The American Law Review; 6) author of The Common Law and editor of Kent's Commentaries; 7) Associate Justice (1902-32) of the U.S. Supreme Court; 8) the oldest Justice and the most famous dissenter who ever sat in that court...
...charges on bonds and preferred stock. Another third is little better off. Only eight Class I roads have bonds outstanding which are gilt-edged enough to be marked with Moody's Aaa (Pennsylvania, Norfolk & Western, Chesapeake & Ohio, Union Pacific, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Virginian, Detroit & Toledo Shore Line, Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac...
Married. Oscar Levant, 32, composer, pianist, glib-libbing expert on Canada Dry's Information Please program; and June Gilmartin, 24, cinemactress (June Gale); he for the second time, she for the first; in Fredericksburg...
Perhaps, however, "patriotism" refuses to admit this. All right, say "Wilderness and Cold Harbor-and the 1st Bull Run, and Antietam and Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg" before spirit succumbed to might-as in Spain...