Word: jeb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columns of print in their Clipsheet, the Methodists cried: "Shocking! . . . an astonishing breach of Naval discipline. . . ."As for teetotaling fighting men, "many of the greatest military men the world has produced have been notably abstemious." Among them the Methodists listed Sergeant York, Jimmy Doolittle,* Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, who "feared whiskey more than bullets." "Perhaps," said Clipsheet drily, "the Admiral would not 'trust' these...
...Another Blackford Civil War volume appeared in 1945: War Years with Jeb Stuart, by Lieut. Colonel W. W. Blackford, brother of Captain Charles...
...Past. Cavalryman Patton gallops along in a tradition of military men Americans have always cheered-Phil Sheridan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James Elwell Brown Stuart, the men who used their cavalry as Patton uses his armor, like a saber. Patton is a modern version of Jeb Stuart's scout and raider: Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby...
...First Army's command team this week was the responsibility for answering the question: will the war in the West end this year or drag drearily into next spring? To romanticists the appropriate man to deliver the successful answer might seem the legendary general of the Jeb Stuart type. But there were no romantic trappings about make-certain Courtney Hodges. His only tradition was precise, professional proficiency. It suited soldiers...
...Freeman's massive work of the Confederate warriors (Lee's Lieutenants, TIME, Oct. 26), closed with the aftermath of the Seven Days' battles. Volume II takes the reader from Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville and the death of Stonewall Jackson. Other famous "lieutenants" included are James Longstreet, Jeb Stuart, Jubal Early, A. P. Hill R. S. Ewell, D. H. Hill, J. B. Hood, R. H. Anderson, W. N. Pendleton. Detailed, scholarly examination of every inch of the battlefields is coupled with dramatic descriptions of men in action, adding up to an invaluable period piece. A fine successor...