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...appointment was just as surprising to the new headmaster, shy, softspoken, young (35) Lieut. Colonel John Mason Kemper, deputy chief of the Army's Historical Division. Until Andover's trustees penetrated the labyrinthine Pentagon to proposition him, Colonel Kemper was a convinced career soldier. Says he: "I've never known anything else...
...winner was spare and scholarly John Cornelius Stennis, 46, a circuit judge. In him, Mississippians hoped they had a man who would return to the hard-working senatorial traditions of Pat Harrison and John Sharp Williams. John Stennis, born on a farm in Kemper County, had made a bright record for himself at Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College and at the University of Virginia law school. He had made an equally bright record as legislator, district attorney and judge. He has never had a civil decision reversed...
Pennsylvanians, though, were "very loyal to the 'old flag.' ... I rode through [Chambersburg] with General Kemper, at the head of his brigade. The windows and porches were filled with women who were covered with flags, and each one had a flag, waving it over our troops as they passed. . . . The men exercised forbearance and seldom replied, but [one said] to a very bold-looking girl . . . with a great flag pinned and hanging over her shoulders and over her bosom: 'Look here, Miss, you'd better take that flag off! . These old rebs are hell on breastworks...
David Woods Kemper...
David Woods Kemper...