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...Washburn, and proudly displayed it as a trophy. Forrest gallantly returned the uniform to Washburn under a flag of truce. Some weeks later, also under a flag of truce, Washburn sent Forrest a fine gray uniform made to measure by the cavalryman's own prewar Memphis tailor. As Jefferson Davis' special train left Richmond, abandoning the city to the Yankees, Foote writes, it was followed by others bearing "the marvelous and incongruous debris of the wreck of the Confederate capital." As one young lieutenant observed, "There were very few women on these trains, but among the last...
...grammar and the subtleties of its idiomatic charm. The defenders of lucid prose shuddered at the mangled sentences--the pronouns without antecedents, the flabby modifiers, the split infinitives, the undue use of the passive voice, the malevolent creeping of coarse phraseology. A nation stood appalled that the language of Jefferson, of Webster, of Emerson, Melville, and Mencken could be contorted into such a mockery of America's verbal heritage...
...appropriate. Without the help of the French, the Colonies might never have won the Revolution, and without the skillful persuasion of Franklin, who went to Paris as ambassador in 1776, the French might never have entered the war. The ties between France and the U.S. were further strengthened by Jefferson, who succeeded Franklin in 1785 and stayed until...
...display covers the times and lives of the two Americans from the birth of Franklin in 1706 until Jefferson's death on July 4, 1826-precisely 50 years after he signed the Declaration of Independence. The exhibition features photographs, paintings, documents and artifacts, including a hulking 3,500-Ib. stuffed buffalo-a symbol of the vast, unmapped Western territory that Jefferson bought in the Louisiana Purchase after becoming President. Following trips to Warsaw and London, the show, which is being underwritten by IBM, will come to the U.S. in March...
...light of the Bicentennial, the eager reception that the French are giving to Franklin and Jefferson is heartwarming for Americans. Whatever an American is, however difficult to define, the national character surely has been shaped by Franklin's broad humanism and Jefferson's clear idealism...