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...propriety. In Page's The Burial of the Guns, the men of a Confederate battery decide what they must do after they hear the news of Appomattox. In Mary Andrews' The Perfect Tribute, Abraham Lincoln learns from a dying Southern captain that his speech at Gettysburg was not, after all, a failure. In tone, the stories range from Ring Lardner's deadpan barbershop talk in Haircut to the old-school nourishes of New Orleans' George W. Cable in Madame Delphine: "She was just passing 17-that beautiful year when the heart of the maiden still beats...
...holdings) by placing his personal fortune (estimated at $400,000, from sales of Crusade in Europe) into an "irrevocable trust" over which he will have no control, sold the herd of 41 Guernseys and Holsteins which he and George (Presidents Who Have Known Me) Allen held jointly at his Gettysburg farm for an undisclosed...
They landed Army contracts, and soon Studebaker wagons were rolling into battle at Gettysburg and other Civil War actions. Custer made his last stand on the Little Big Horn separated from his supply tram of Studebakers. In the Boer War, Correspondent Winston Churchill was captured with a Studebaker wagon. Orders poured in from all over the world, and by 1887 the company was touting itself as "The Biggest Vehicle House in the World," with annual sales of $2,000,000. Its most popular buggy was the high, wide & handsome "Izzer"-so called to distinguish it from a has-been...
...some time, to a disturbance of the inner ear which had a minor but annoying effect on her equilibrium. Last summer she made it clear to her friends that she would have been delighted, if fate allowed, to spend the coming years at the 189-acre farm near Gettysburg, Pa. which she and Ike bought...
...Lincoln: A Picture Story of His Life, by Stefan Lorant. A labor of photographic love, consisting of sketches, cartoons and every known* picture ever taken of Lincoln (500), with running commentary by a Lincoln enthusiast who first discovered his hero when he read the Gettysburg address in a German concentration camp...