Word: peninsular
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...happily digressed to one of his favorite pastimes-a folksy War-Between-the-States history lesson, second-generation style. "When I listened to the record I could see [Confederate General James E.] Jeb Stuart with his plumed hat and redlined cape galloping around [Union General George] McClellan during the Peninsular Campaign . . . the incomparable Robert E. Lee at Fredericksburg . . . Appomattox Court House and Marse Robert's ride to Richmond . . . Then I thought of the terrible Reconstruction and old Thad Stevens and Ben Wade, who wanted Andrew Johnson kicked out so he could be the President...
DETROIT'S Charles Freer made millions building railroad cars (Peninsular Car Works), retired at 44 to collect art on a grand scale. He bought some 9,000 objects, built a Washington museum to house them, and willed the whole collection to the Government. In the 32 years since its opening, the Freer Gallery has delighted millions of visitors. Its Chinese painting collection has only one rival outside of China (Boston's Museum of Fine Arts), and includes hundreds of masterpieces on a plane with the Sung Dynasty ink drawing at left...
...accomplished artist. In 1861 De Joinville crossed the Atlantic and joined the staff of Major General George B. McClellan as observer and war artist. He spent almost a year with the Army of the Potomac, followed the Union forces from barracks to field, went with them through the Peninsular Campaign. These experiences produced a brief but scholarly military report, Campagne de I'Armée du Potomac, published in 1862. A more impressive record was the prince's watercolors of life among McClellan's soldiers; everywhere De Joinville went he carried his paint brush and color...
...pound howitzers and six 6-pound brass pieces." In October 1861, a New York Tribune correspondent in Missouri wrote what amounted to an invitation for a Confederate attack: he described a concentration of 15,000 troops, "waiting for the remainder of the army to join them." During the Peninsular Campaign, Harper's Weekly printed detailed sketches of General McClellan's siege works...
...wrong. The British force which captured Washington included no Warwickshires. The Warwickshire Regiment was more than 500 miles away in Toronto (then York), had recently participated in the Peninsular War, leaving many wounded and sick troops in Bordeaux...