Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dirty Foreigners. Two years of fighting had separated North from South with deep, bitter emotions. When youthful John Dooley, a Virginian soldier, compared the "dignified but most courteous" appearance of his hero, General Lee, with the sullen demeanor of the frightened citizens of Pennsylvania, he simply concluded that the Unionists were as different from the Confederates as another "race of people." So it seemed, also, to Gettysburg Housewife Sallie Broadhead, as she watched Lee's vanguard outside her house. The Southerners were "a miserable-looking set" of alien monsters with a "traitor's flag" who pranced barefoot...
Billy Bayly was disgusted: he was scarcely able to see a thing. On the Union side, General Meade's horse ran away with him, and his staff followed (they all returned to the righting eventually); a Confederate band struck up the gayest "polkas and waltzes"; Sir Arthur found it "very curious...
...your regiment and be a man?' He turned up his face with a stupid, terrified look . . . and then without a word turned his nose to the ground." Other men, mad with terror, tried to hide in a fold in the ground: over them stood Union General Gibbon, saying "in a tone of kindly expostulation: 'My men . . . All these matters are in the hands of God, and nothing that you can do will make you safer...
...Fault." After Pickett's charge had failed and the most optimistic Southerner knew that the Confederates had lost the day, General Lee, "the saddest man in the Army of Northern Virginia," passed among his retreating, exhausted men, begging them to keep their ranks and assuring them: "It was my fault this time." He saw an aide lashing at a balky horse and begged: "Oh, don't do that. I once had a foolish horse and I found gentle measures so much the best." Sir Arthur Fremantle found Confederate General Longstreet sitting glumly on a fence and said tactlessly...
...Ohio State University's 2,640 faculty members and 4,000 other employees faced a choice between signing an anti-Communist oath or getting fired. By a 6-1 vote, the trustees had approved a resolution by Board Member (and Brigadier General) Carlton S. Dargusch, 47, wartime deputy director of Selective Service. General Dargusch had heard "widespread" rumors of Communism on the campus and thought that now was the time for teachers to "come forward and be counted." The Cleveland Press denounced the project as "hysterical libeling of a whole faculty . . . [The oath] won't reach the liars...