Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Blanche Colton Williams, 65, portly head of Hunter College's English department, editor of the O. Henry Memorial Prize Stories from 1919 to 1932; in Jackson, Miss...
When Gideon Jackson told them, the freedmen of Carwell Plantation said "Hallelujah," and relaxed their fears of this first mysterious repercussion of freedom. But the fright in the giant frame of Gideon was greater than it had ever been in battle. The Voting had made him a delegate...
When the South Carolina State Constitutional Convention assembled in Charleston in 1868, Gideon Jackson was one of 76 Negroes among the 124 members. Scorned by the sulking gentry, berated by the press, abysmally confused, most of them despaired of accomplishing anything...
Death from the errors of fellow soldiers is an old story in war-especially in combat involving aircraft. But few officers of such high rank have died that way. Most memorable accident in U.S. military history: the death of General Thomas ("Stonewall") Jackson, who was shot by his North Carolinians as he galloped at dusk through a grove of trees at Chancellorsville...
When his aides asked the mortally wounded Jackson if he was badly hurt, he answered with an air of wonderment but no bitterness: "I think I am-and all my wounds are from my own men." Supreme Headquarters' report included no dying words from Whitey McNair, a thoroughgoing professional soldier who must also have died without bitterness...