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...born near Ithaca, N.Y., when John Tyler was President; as a boy he saw Iroquois Indians roaming the woods. His grandparents gave their land to Cornell University-so he said. In 1861 he enlisted in Pennsylvania's 71st Infantry. "I fit in the Battle of Gettysburg. A Minieball took the tip of my finger off. Shell creased my scalp. When the battle was over I rode a horse to the White House to tell the President. ... I left Gettysburg at 3:30 p.m. and arrived at Lincoln's place at 9:15 that evening...
Your military editor needs to polish up his Civil War history. In TIME (Feb. 17) occurs this statement: "Failure to do just that (keep his enemy rolling) is an occupational disease among generals, who often have a fatal weakness for consolidation after partial victory-e.g., Meade after Gettysburg, Lee after Manassas I and II." It so happens that Lee was not in command at the First Battle of Manassas. The Confederates were commanded by Beauregard, who was joined by Joseph E. Johnston and later in the afternoon by Kirby Smith. Stonewall Jackson, looking over the field after the battle...
...take Tripoli, General Sir Archibald Wavell had accomplished a brilliant tactical triumph. He had rolled up his enemy and then kept him rolling. Failure to do just that is an occupational disease among generals, who often have a fatal weakness for consolidation after partial victory-e.g., Meade after Gettysburg, Lee after Manassas I and II. For the first time in this war the Axis had run up against someone who could hit hard and follow through...
...Like the Gettysburg Address, President Roosevelt's Third Inaugural was brief, simple, non-demagogic. Perhaps, too, like Lincoln's remarks, it will be long remembered-its measured cadences applauded by later generations, as if in rebuke to Monday's undemonstrative throngs...
...Stuart's cavalry men, was the oldest of six brothers in the Civil War. His next brother, A. D. Peace, was shot in the shoulder and head. His next brother, A. S. Peace, was shot through the stomach. His next brother, Ira J. Peace, was killed at Gettysburg. His next brother, George K. Peace, had his leg shot off. His next brother, J. Wesley Peace, had his little toe shot off. All in war. Do you blame the Peaces for moving out of Peaceburg when the Army moved...