Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Gypsy Rose Lee, 29, ecdysiast and author, whose baby is expected in February (TIME, Aug. 28) : Actor Alexander Kirkland, 40, her second husband, after over two years of marriage; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Reno...
...LEE'S LIEUTENANTS. VOLUME III. GETTYSBURG TO APPOMATTOX-Douglas Southall Freeman-Scribner...
...Happily Lee's men moved on toward the little town that was to be the greatest battlefield of the Western Hemisphere: Gettysburg. There had never been an invasion in history like this one. There has never been such another...
Officers and Gentlemen. This third volume of Lee's Lieutenants completes Douglas Southall Freeman's studies of the men around the Confederacy's commander. In 1915, Dr. Freeman, then 29, and editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, as he still is, began collecting material on the Army of Northern Virginia. By 1926 he was ready to begin writing his four-volume, authoritative biography, R. E. Lee. It made him famous and virtually ended arguments about the General. Dr. Freeman reputedly knew where Lee had been each hour through the 35,000 hours between the firing on Sumter...
When he finished R. E. Lee, Dr. Freeman seemed to have exhausted his subject. But not so: he began the series of sketches of Lee's corps and divisional commanders that grew into the volumes of Lee's Lieutenants...