Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Napoleonic penman was Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the hero of Fort Sumter, whom President Jefferson Davis first entrusted with the defense of Richmond. "Old Bory" had a bloodhound's eye and a theatrical, martial look. Taking command at Manassas Junction, he showed a pardonable confidence in the fighting spirit of his troops, the first and fiercest volunteers. His notions of their tactical capacity-communicated in eloquent notes to Richmond-were purely visionary...
When Beauregard posted his army along the creek called Bull Run on July 20, 1861, he had Napoleonic strokes in mind but not much sense of the terrain. General Joseph E. Johnston, his superior, just arrived from Richmond, had to assume Beauregard's knowledge of the country since he had none himself. Beauregard worked until 4:30 a.m. on an order for attack which Freeman calls "a gloomy instance of the manner in which . . . the ignorance of a commanding officer may be as gross as that of the men and infinitely more expensive in blood and misery...
...Edgar Kaiser-who runs his father's three shipyards at Portland, Ore.-last week slapped down another of his father's yards. Month ago Henry Kaiser's Richmond No. 2 on San Francisco Bay broke Son Edgar's previous records by completing a 10,500-ton Liberty ship in 29 days-a world's record...
...amid the living grief of the last generation of Confederates. He and his kin felt that it was the North that had seceded: "It seems to me that we were the Union, and that the Union went with us-the uninterrupted strain of the United States moved along to Richmond and then back again to the north bank of the Potomac...
...Maritime Commission told the House merchant marine committee what had happened. WPB's steel division had slashed the 418,000 tons of steel plate needed by shipyards in August to 368,000 tons. Because of this steel shortage all shipyards were slowed down. Todd's Richmond yard had six of 21 shipways idle, Bethlehem-Fairfield with 16 ways and Calship with 14 ways each had two idle...