Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when H. E. Northway, Del's father and manager of the Houston plant of M. W. Kellogg Co., was opening a shipment of intensely radioactive pellets of iridium 192, which Kellogg's nuclear division uses to take X-ray pictures of heavy metal objects. Helped by Jackson McVey and two other men, and working with remote-control apparatus from behind a thick shield, Northway opened the 800-lb. shipping container, took out the sealed metal canister full of deadly pellets and put it on a remotely controlled lathe. When the lathe's tool cut into the metal...
...Jackson or a Rabbit. Like most outstanding Civil War leaders, Jackson was blooded in the Mexican War. A West Pointer ('46, with budding Union General George Brinton McClellan and the Confederacy's George Edward Pickett, who led the charge at Gettysburg), Jackson served as an artillery officer under Winfield Scott on the epic march from Vera Cruz to the heights of Chapultepec. It was wily General Scott who taught him the military secret on which all his future success was based: scout, flank and pursue. He early showed another trait-a stubborn insistence on perfection-that was invaluable...
...seemed rough and comic and exasperating in times of peace was shown to be the perfect equipment for a leader of men. His troops marched until they dropped. Stragglers were flogged, deserters summarily shot. His veterans had a motto: "Man that is born of woman, and enlisteth in Jackson's army, is of few days and short rations." Yet with the instinctive knowledge that distinguishes the martinet from the great captain, his ragged "foot cavalry" so revered Jackson that, whenever a burst of cheering swept the camp, men would say: "It's Jackson or a rabbit...
...Superman. At Bull Run, when he stood fast against the surging Union attack, Jackson won his nickname of Stonewall. No appellation could be less accurate, for the essence of Jackson's tactics was movement. In the Shenandoah Valley his swift marches and countermarches totally baffled four Union commanders, and he defeated two of them (Fremont and Shields) in separate actions on succeeding days. When McClellan was strangling Richmond with his siege lines, Jackson broke through a Federal entrapment, raced down the valley to throw Washington into a panic, and then seemingly vanished from the earth-to appear days later...
...Lived. Southern enthusiasts like to dream that, had Jackson lived, he and Lee might well have made up for the material deficiencies of the Confederacy. In this absorbing book, Texas-born Historian Vandiver (Rice Institute) does not hazard a guess, but notes that Stonewall's magic was greatly aided by the mediocrity of his opponents. Tactics that bewildered Banks and Pope and Hooker might well have foundered against commanders like Grant and Sherman. As it was, Jackson's greatest coups were repeatedly frustrated by the dogged resistance of the often outwitted but seldom outfought Union soldier...