Word: shiloh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans, was adopted by Merchant Henry Stanley, who died without leaving him a penny. During the Civil War young Stanley made the curious record of serving in both the Confederate and Union Armies. the Union Navy. Captured (as a Confederate) at Shiloh, he was offered freedom if he would enlist in the Union Army. He enlisted, came down with dysentery, was discharged as unfit for further service, and ended the war in the Navy. Discovering a gift for journalism, he put it to work, finally took the eye of James Gordon Bennett, then No.1 U. S. newspaperman, editor...
Forrest was a born fighter; what he had to learn about soldiering he learned at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Hog Mountain, Chickamauga, Brice's Cross-Roads. He had a great contempt for West Pointers. After a disastrous action whose plans he had not approved, his commander, General Stephen D. Lee, called a council of war, asked Forrest if he had any ideas. "Yes, sir," said Forrest. "I've always got ideas, and I'll tell you one thing, General Lee. If I knew as much about West Point tactics as you, the Yankees would whip hell out of me every...
...Drusilla eloped with Major Crowninshield, and Marcia was not sorry her wedding was postponed, because she too was really in love with the Major. Miltiades went grimly off to war and took orders from the man who had stolen his bride, until Crowninshield was killed at the Battle of Shiloh. Polycarp and Augustus Vaiden were too young to go, but they did not think so. One night they climbed out of the window and ran away to enlist...
...King" Benjamin died in December 1927. Soon the House of David became a house divided. "Queen" Mary vied for control with H. T. Dewhirst, onetime California jurist. For 28 years she had inhabited Shiloh, as the cult's property is called. There stands the austere mansion in which secret chambers reputedly conceal a fortune of $1,000,000 in cash and jewels left by "King" Benjamin. There is nothing secret about his mummified body, which is there on display. "Queen" Mary had hoped to cherish these properties, sacred and personal, to preach immortality there in the footsteps...
This occurred in February; Judge Dewhirst retained Shiloh and its hallowed manse. "Queen" Mary soon purchased ten acres of farm land not far away. There she and her faithful proceeded in quiet procession last week, distraught, injured, but somewhat heartened by thoughts of a new tabernacle, a new beginning...