Word: jeb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South's Confederate heroes were military leaders-Lee, Jeb Stuart, Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson-not Jeff Davis and his Cabinet. The first full-length study of the Confederate Cabinet, Statesmen of the Lost Cause, is by a Yankee. Pulitzer Prize Biographer Hendrick (The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page) makes these forgotten statesmen the biographical find of the year. Individually picturesque, they made still more picturesque diplomatic history. And Author Hendrick gives them a large share of credit for losing the War. If that Yankee judgment seems harsh, what many a Southerner thinks of Jeff Davis and his Cabinet...
...desperate Southern aristocrats, filibusterers and assorted bad men, their plots and generally seditious hell-raising, Texas looked like just the sort of a place for another rebellion to cut loose. Against this hot-blooded, nearly forgotten background, Texas-born U. S. Marine Major John W. Thomason Jr. (Fix Bayonets!, Jeb Stuart), grandson of Longstreet's Chief of Staff, spins the yarn of Gone to Texas, a pleasant, fast-moving romance about an unpleasant, fast-moving period of U. S. history. Readers will like Author Thomason's numerous pen & ink illustrations; those who liked Gone With The Wind should...
...holding his ground against Union assaults, created an immortal nickname by crying "Look at Jackson! There he stands like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!" In mid-afternoon a fresh contingent of Joe Johnston's troops trotted up, charged with "Stonewall" Jackson's infantry and "Jeb" Stuart's cavalry. The tired, untrained Yankees broke and ran. Next day the North knew it was in for a real...
Cozl Bin's Son. Newton Baker is no more a native son of Ohio than Governor White. Sired by a country doctor who rode in "Jeb" Stuart's Confederate cavalry, he was born 61 years ago at Martinsburg in what has been called "Ohio's Coal Bin," West Virginia...
...told that as Mayor of Cleveland (1912-16) he carried forward the Reform torch fallen from the hands of the late Tom Johnson, famed tribune of the people who fought for a 3? carfare. The South could be made to remember that Newton Baker's father rode with Jeb Stuart in a company commanded by a Baker cousin and manned by 20 Baker first cousins...