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...stirred young Douglas; he decided: "If someone doesn't write the story of these men, it will be lost forever, and I'm go'n' to do it." Being Virginia born, Douglas Freeman had heard endless talk of the war; he had seen Generals Longstreet and Fitzhugh Lee in the flesh. The headmaster of McGuire's University School used to scold the boys for tardiness by reminding them that the battle of Gettysburg was lost because General Longstreet stopped to give his corps breakfast...
Your reviewer of Earl Schenck Miers' and Richard A. Brown's Gettysburg [TIME, May 31] does an injustice to the British observer with the Confederates, Colonel Arthur Fremantle, when applying the word "tactless" to Fremantle's remark to General Longstreet after the failure of Pickett's charge...
...remark, "I wouldn't have missed this for anything," while inappropriate, was not tactless; for the observer was in ignorance of the tactical situation at the time, and erroneously supposed that he had arrived just in time to witness an attack. He was unaware, when he spoke to Longstreet, that he was viewing Pickett's retreat. To quote Fremantle: "When I got close up to General Longstreet, I saw one of his regiments advancing through the woods in good order; so, thinking I was just in time to see the attack, I remarked to the general that...
...their ranks and assuring them: "It was my fault this time." He saw an aide lashing at a balky horse and begged: "Oh, don't do that. I once had a foolish horse and I found gentle measures so much the best." Sir Arthur Fremantle found Confederate General Longstreet sitting glumly on a fence and said tactlessly: "I wouldn't have missed this for anything." Replied the beaten general: "I would like to have missed it very much...
High Button Shoes (book by Stephen Longstreet; music & lyrics by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn; produced by Monte Proser and Joseph Kipness) isn't a specially good show, but it's pretty often a gay one. A period musical (1913), it spins an amiably undisciplined yarn about a con man and his stooge (Phil Silvers and Joey Faye) who sell waterlogged real estate in New Brunswick, N.J., flee to Atlantic City, sneak back for a Rutgers-Princeton game, at the end are earnestly seeking fresh frauds and pitches...