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...Civil War lies less in its bombardment of fact than in its eloquence. Was it the gravity of the event that inspired politicians, generals and common citizens alike to such memorable words? "It is well that war is so terrible," said Robert E. Lee during the Battle of Fredericksburg. "We should grow too fond of it." Abraham Lincoln was inspiring even in his black moods ("If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it," he said at one low point) and his caustic ones. "If General McClellan does not want to use the Army," he complained...
Croteau did play, however, for the Fredericksburg Giants, a semi-pro baseball team in Virginia; a lot of the players there were former minor leaguers or players heading to the minors...
Somewhere south of Fredericksburg, Va., exhaustion obliterates caution. Turn off into a mercury-lit nightmare. Motels, shopping strips and truck stops lie scattered on the landscape. Out of the chaos of blinking signs and curbless entrances, a motel's canopy appears. The lobby seems assembled from unfinished lumber constructed to meet a wistful marketing illusion, something between motel and convention place. Members of a meeting of a fellowship for disabled Christians wander about, wearing their names on paper stickers. Hand over a plastic card for a room in which a television set flickers on with MTV and a radio offers...
Just another morning at the Free Lance-Star, which has been serving Fredericksburg and its surrounding counties for more than 100 years. One of America's nearly 1,700 daily newspapers, the Star (circ. 34,464) is not exactly the nation's best known. Yet within the scope of its own ambitions, % the Star embodies what is sturdy and special about American journalism. Owned by the Rowe family, the paper is adamantly independent of any power outside the newsroom. Though the paper carries foreign and national news, its true value lies in its coverage of the local scene, from city...
When Charles Rowe, now 61, and Josiah, 58, inherited the paper from their father in 1949, only 55,000 people lived in Fredericksburg and four neighboring counties. The Star had six editorial employees, type was set by hand, and circulation fell shy of 6,500. Today the population is 134,800 and Spotsylvania is one of the fastest-growing counties in Virginia. Meanwhile, the Star has entered the high-tech age, with 23 computer terminals in the cramped newsroom and an offset printing press next door...