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...January with a testimonial banquet at which his supporters read a forthright letter of endorsement from the President-was proceeding with active White House support. It was indicated that the President himself might make a Barkley speech in Kentucky after attending the 75th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg...
Died. Harry René Lee, 92, onetime (1935-36) commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans and a chief sponsor in the South of the Blue and Gray reunion at Gettysburg. Pa.; of old age; in Nashville, Tenn. "General" Lee joined the Confederate Army at Tupelo in 1862 when he was 16, later enlisted in the British Navy, serving on the same ship with the late King George...
Abner Doubleday was a general in the Civil War. The world will probably little note nor long remember what he did at Gettysburg* but it can never forget what he did at Cooperstown. In that sleepy little New York village 99 years ago, he invented baseball...
...became a prominent citizen, headed the forces opposed to the Vigilantes, met and disliked William Tecumseh ("War is Hell'') Sherman who was then simply a California banker and commander of the California militia. In the Civil War, Wistar was wounded four times, saw noteworthy action at Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg and elsewhere, was once deprived of his command because, he said, of the enmity of General Benjamin Butler...
...group of young musicians in which the turnover is fast and rehearsals are few, they played the Franck Symphony, and, with Pianist Muriel Kerr, the fourth Beethoven Concerto. More eyes will be turned on them next month when they play the world premiere of Jacob Weinberg's Gettysburg Address, a symphonic ode to the text of Abraham Lincoln's immortal speech...