Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great painting of The Last Meeting of Lee tind Jackson, appearing in the book section [ May 6], belongs to the estate of the late Colonel J. B. Sinnott, C.S.A., an aide and bodyguard of General Stonewall Jackson...
...amenable to levity as motherhood. It was a reasonably calculated risk for President Eisenhower to call Confederate General Jeb Stuart a headline hunter, and for Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to label Pickett's charge as ''monstrous." But when Ike and Monty jocularly agreed that Generals Lee and Meade should have been ''sacked'' for their blunders at Gettysburg (TIME, May 20). they committed themselves irrevocably to battle...
...Marshal Montgomery his excruciating slowness in hitting the Germans after the initial Rhine crossings.'' Columnist Anthony Harrigan argued in South Carolina's Charleston News & Courier that Eisenhower was "not an actual battle leader [but] a sort of super military executive director." And on the theory that Lee and Meade should have equal time to reply to their critics, an editorial in the Scripps-Howard papers took the ghosts of Gettysburg's commanders on a jeep trip through the Ardennes to retrace Eisenhower-Montgomery strategy in the Battle of the Bulge. " 'An absolutely monstrous thing...
Some of the liveliest Gettysburgiana was turned up by city editors' efforts to find a local angle. Miami Herald reporters managed to extract opinions from a Robert E. Lee. a Colonel Guilford R. Montgomery, a Jack Mead and a Mrs. A. J. Eisenhower. Historian (Lincoln Finds a General) Kenneth P. Williams was traced to Bloomington. Ind. by the Atlanta Constitution, and allowed that "it would have been rather unjust to replace Lee for that one battle." Mrs. Robert E. Lee III, identified as "the widow of the Generals grandson," confided to the Washington Post and Times Herald that...
...course, where Lee gambled with his infantry, Eisenhower has never risked one whit of prestige. Now, of course the AP reported yesterday that the President "at long last, had proved he could get down off his high horse and punch." This referred to a statement earlier in the day when he said he would henceforth distinguish between those Republican candidates he was "for" and those he was "enthusiastically...