Word: guard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Louise D. Mitchell; "Cruising on the Gulf;" "Lenz's World Tour Awheel;" "Rugged Labrador," by R. G. Taber; "Cycling in Mid-Atlantic," by O. Howarth; "Paddling a Pipanti in Honduras," by E. W. Perry; "About the Balearics," by Chas. Edwards; "Rabbiting," by H. Rave; "The New Hampshire National Guard," by G. H. Moses, and the usual editorials, records, poems...
...Yale Athletic Association will hold its annual winter meeting in conjunction with the Connecticut National Guard at the Second Regiment Armory in New Haven on Saturday evening, March 7. The following events will be open only to the Connecticut National Guard: 50 yards dash, handicap; one mile relay race, boxing, tug-of-war. The following events, all handicap, will be open to all amateurs: 50 yards dash, 50 yards hurdle, 600 yards run, one mile run, putting 16 pound shot, pole vault, running high jump. Other events may be arranged later. The first two men in each event will receive...
...Robert Treat Paine graduated. After graduating he studied law in the office of W. C. Noyes, New York, and began practice in that city. For a time he was on the Tribune staff. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the 12th regiment, New York State national guard, and went to the front at the first call. In September, 1862, he was made brigadier general for bravery. He was wounded at Antietam, and again at Gettysburg, where he was taken prisoner. He participated in the final Potomac campaign with Gen. Grant and was present at the Confederate surrender...
...Farragut's movement from below was checked for want of a land force, and Grant was too far from his base to continue his old plan without great difficulty. Vicksburg on the north and Port Hudson on the south were alone left to guard the Red River, the great artery of the West, but here the Confederates had concentrated all their force...
Buell was sent east with 40,000 men, but was compelled to guard two hundred miles of railroad, and Bragg, who had succeeded Beauregard, anticipated Buell by a swift move, took Chattanooga and assumed the offensive...