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Ingrid Bergman returned from USOing in Germany with a warm memory of one histrionic balcony scene: she stood on a Berlin balcony Hitler had used and delivered the Gettysburg Address to G.I.s, Russians and Berliners in the square below-while Harmonicist Larry Adler stood by and rendered The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...London garden party, who called them "the two most beautiful per sons at the party." Died. General John Milton Claypool, 98, unreconstructed Confederate, twice national commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans; of pneumonia; in St. Louis. Once, reluctantly agreeing to attend a Union-Confederate reunion at Gettysburg, he magnanimously conceded: "Since the Lord has put up with the Yankees all this time, I guess...
...command in time to strike Jackson's right and rear, there is no telling where [the] disaster might have ended. . . . His subsequent night attack against Jackson was one of the most brilliant actions in military history." But General Sickles' major achievement was his stand against Longstreet at Gettysburg. It also cost Sickles his right leg from the thigh down. His military career was over...
...Sunday after Gettysburg, Lincoln came to see his friend in a hospital. Sickles told him hollowly: "[The doctors] tell me ... that I had better put my affairs in order." "I am in a prophetic mood today," answered Lincoln, "and I prophesy that you'll live to do many an important service." Eighteen months later he made Sickles his personal envoy, sent him off to Latin America on a mission so confidential that to this day it remains a State Department secret. On his return, President Johnson appointed Sickles to be Military Governor of the Carolinas. In 1869, President Grant...
Lusty Hero. But the sight of a maimed Union soldier changed his plans. He became a passionate supporter of homes and pensions for disabled veterans. He tore the field of Gettysburg from the hands of souvenir hunters, made it a national shrine. He arranged the famed Gettysburg reunions of Blue and Grey. General Longstreet became his bosom friend. "[Your stand at Gettysburg]," wrote Longstreet, "was the sorest and saddest reflection of my life for many years; but today I can say . . . that it was . . . the best that could have come...