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Magnificent, grim, irresistible-these were the gaunt men in grey on the third desperate day of battle near Gettysburg, charging into history under Major General George Pickett. Their objective was the stone wall in the center of the Union lines, where Staff Lieut. Haskell and the veterans of the II Corps stood waiting, watching. It was strangely quiet: "The click of the locks as each man raised the hammer to feel with his fingers that the cap was on the nipple; the sharp jar as a musket touched a stone upon the wall when thrust in aiming over...
Young Wisconsin Lawyer Haskell could fight-and write. He played a distinguished personal part in repe ling Pickett's Charge, and weeks later, the fever of battle still hot in him, he wrote his account of Gettysburg. It is the classic of its kind. Previously snatched up in limited editions as a buff's bonanza, and quoted by virtually all scholars of the battle for its vivid closeups of the thick of things, it now comes for the first time to the popular Civil War book market. The original gets tasteful, unobtrusive editing by Bruce (A Stillness...
Coach Bob Pickett plans to send a team of six sophomores and two juniors to the mats, in an effort to give the newcomers varsity experience for the tough schedule ahead after exam period...
Since this was the first meet of the season for the varsity, coach Bob Pickett moved all his men up a weight classification, rather than force them to shed poundage this early in the season. Tom Myers and Dave Skeels produced the big points for the varsity, each registering five. Myers, a senior normally in the 115-pound class, non-existent in college wrestling, scored his five points on a default, when Dartmouth was unable to put an entrant on the mat in the 123-pound class...
...finest of the lot is Captain Bob Foster, who was undefeated last season as a sophomore. Pickett prefers not to use him until after the vacation because of an old football injury...