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...rules observed with equal fervor by editorial writers and politicians is that the Civil War is about as 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...
Standing on Little Round Top, a hill that anchored the southern end of the Union line, Ike and Monty agreed that Pickett's famous charge across nearly a mile of open fields exposed to Union guns had been illadvised. "Gosh, look at that, just look at that," said the President, as he studied a map. "Why you'd go across that, I don't know. I just don't know." Said Monty crisply: "Monstrous thing. It was an absolutely monstrous thing." Said Ike of Robert E. Lee, who ordered the charge: "You can't imagine...
Jackson or a Rabbit. Like most outstanding Civil War leaders, Jackson was blooded in the Mexican War. A West Pointer ('46, with budding Union General George Brinton McClellan and the Confederacy's George Edward Pickett, who led the charge at Gettysburg), Jackson served as an artillery officer under Winfield Scott on the epic march from Vera Cruz to the heights of Chapultepec. It was wily General Scott who taught him the military secret on which all his future success was based: scout, flank and pursue. He early showed another trait-a stubborn insistence on perfection-that was invaluable...
...Yardling lacrosse squad will meet Andover this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. on the lacrosse field. The Andover squad, who romped over the Tufts freshmen earlier in the season, are rated strong by coach Bob Pickett, who expects a "pretty good game...
...Pickett announced as starters Tom Day at goal, John Righter, Nick Lamont, and Dave Sweet on attack, Norm Rockefeller, Dick Parks, and John Gould as midfielders, and Dain Trafton, John von Stade, and Ed Tarlov on defense...