Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previously made by the Secretary of War was adopted. Under orders of June 18, Rains was assigned to the river defenses, where the use of torpedoes was 'clearly admissible.' A time was to come when his 'sub-terra shells' were a welcome adjunct of the Richmond defenses...
Good-By to All That. In Richmond, Hyman Hyman Hyman embraced the anonymity of the Army...
Said a past president-general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy: "It is one of the most horrible things I've ever seen." Said Bishop James Cannon Jr. in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "The woman's back and hips are poorly portrayed." Said Artist Binford: "When and how did this bishop become an authority on the 'backs and hips' of nude women? Scat, Bishop! Get off my scaffold. I am not trying to swarm your pulpit." Result: his mural is still in the sketch stage...
...Seven Days' Battle, 1862. Here Robert E. Lee, with inferior forces, outmaneuvered McClellan and saved Richmond, the loss of which would have changed the whole course of the Civil War. Lee's casualties were on a Stalingrad scale...
...Gettysburg, 1863, reopened the road to Richmond. Had the Federals followed through, they might have broken the Confederates once and for all. Federal casualties...