Word: pickett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pickett '50 acquired her briar when a man tried to break her of smoking cigarettes. She now smokes both...
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...
...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 'I wouldn't have...
...Fault." After Pickett's charge had failed and the most optimistic Southerner knew that the Confederates had lost the day, General Lee, "the saddest man in the Army of Northern Virginia," passed among his retreating, exhausted men, begging them to keep 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...
...PHILADELPHIA, Clarence E. Pickett and the American Friends Service Committee laid plans for spending the Quakers' $20,000 share of the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Nov. 10) to improve relations between Russia and the U.S.-probably by methods suggested by a recent series of Quaker-sponsored newspaper ads: immediate peace talks, strengthening of the U.N., and "a new effort to arrange the exchange of students, writers, religious leaders and industrial workers...