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When Garfield spoke, the struggle between North and South was but three years over. Many of its men and all of its memories were alive. The names of its battles were like a vast orchestration of the years of war. Manassas and Shiloh, Antietam and Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the Wilderness-the names would be long remembered. Seventy-five years later, on another Memorial Day, the nation was again at war. Again it had become, not merely a people with an army, but a people in arms. The old place names still lingered in the American mind, but now there were...
Open now to officers stationed at the University, is a miniature section of the terrain around the Battle of Gettysburg which is being used by Harvard ROTC students in their field artillery firing...
Pattern-Smashers. In Gettysburg, Mrs. Margaret McCleaf reached 100, said she had no idea how she had done it. In Kenton, Ohio, Samuel Bidinger, who had never been late to work in 20 years, finally muffed it by an hour and five minutes...
...ever found out what General Patton wrote in his last letter to his wife-how we knew about the sail boat he has tied up against future leisure (it's called The When and If)-how we knew about his fighting the battles of Manassas and Gettysburg over again on the spot with his young son. More important, I wondered how we knew so intimately just how General Patton felt about the way the fighting had been going in Tunisia...
Tunisia was strange and far from the American traditions he had absorbed. He had often taken his wife and his namesake son, maps, books, thermos bottle and lunch, to the fields of Manassas and Gettysburg, and he and his army of Pattons had fought the battles out. "George, go down in that field, you're Beauregard's artillery. . . . And Bea, you go over there in those trees and don't move until I tell you." Tunisia was far from wooded Georgia and bloody Chickamauga, far from the tableland beside the Tennessee where Grant won the battle...