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Both legends date back to the Civil War when North Carolina troops were at one time stationed at Gettysburg. The outstanding brilliance of the Southern troops in withstanding almost alone the Union attack was jokingly attributed to tarred heels which could not give ground...
...Chicago (Swift & Company), Vice President John Goldhammer of the Commercial Cable Co., Manhattan) and U. S. Minister to Sweden Leland Harrison. ¶The President went to Cannon Falls, Minn., and delivered a dedicatory speech at a monument to the late Col. William Colvill, leader of the charge at Gettysburg in which the First Minnesota Volunteers lost 215 of their 262 men. "In all the history of warfare," the President said, "this charge has few, if any, equals. . . . It probably saved the Union Army from defeat. We may well stop to consider on this Sabbath day what Power it was that...
Henry Longstreet Taylor, president of National Tuberculosis Association LL. D. Gettysburg College (Gettysburg...
...plane circling above the Gettysburg airport, Aviator Paul Charles climbed under the wings, lashed a broken landing gear, returned to guide the machine safely to earth. At 21, Charles is said to be the youngest licensed commercial pilot...
...Class of 1928 at Amherst elected President Coolidge its honorary president. . . . President Coolidge laid a cornerstone in Washington, for the new American Red Cross Building, dedicated to U. S. women in the War. Chief Justice Taft presided. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson attended. . . . President Coolidge journeyed to Gettysburg, Pa., to deliver a Memorial Day speech. In charge of the train was one Grant Eckert, son of the later Conductor John Eckert who had charge of the train which took President Lincoln to Gettysburg in 1863. In his speech, President Coolidge called Abraham Lincoln "one of the greatest men ever in the world...