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...President unveiled in the Botanical Gardens a statue of Major General George Gordon Meade, "gallant soldier and Christian gentleman," hero of Gettysburg. (Pennsylvania gave the statue...
Died. Mrs. Georgia Wade Mc-Clellan, 86, who sat on the platform during Lincoln's Gettysburg address; at Carroll, la. On her deathbed, imagining herself again a Civil War nurse, she said: "There's a soldier boy in there [the next room] who wants a letter written to his mother. He's wounded so badly he'll never live. I do wish you'd write...
...really three Last Men-Peter Hall, 89; Charles Lockwood, 86; John Goff, 85. Sixty-six years ago they had marched off to the Civil War with Company B of the First Minnesota Regiment. Many soldiers of Company B fell at their first battle-Bull Run-many at Antietam, at Gettysburg, at other battles that are history to almost everyone today but are memories to the old men of the Last Man's Club. In 1886 there were only 34 Company B members surviving. In that year those 34 men formed the Last Man's Club. They agreed...
...when General Wood was Chief of Staff, that he first conceived the training camp idea. At that time the world was at peace, the U. S. Regular Army had dropped to some 25,000 men. The first two camps (one at Monterey, Calif., the other at Gettysburg, had a combined enrollment of 222 men, all college students. In 1914 there were 667 enrollments in four camps; in 1915 the number reached 1,066. In 1915 General Wood opened the Plattsburg Camp and extended the idea to include not only college boys but also businessmen. Plattsburg quickly became the centre...
...tends to improve my English and increase my vocabulary, but I have no desire to increase it with such words as amanuensis. Sensible men would prefer stenographer or secretary I would not be surprised should an early issue of your publication contain a revision of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, using such unusual words as amanuensis instead of the two-syllable words Lincoln used...