Word: spotsylvania
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...Josiah, 58, inherited the paper from their father in 1949, only 55,000 people lived in Fredericksburg and four neighboring counties. The Star had six editorial employees, type was set by hand, and circulation fell shy of 6,500. Today the population is 134,800 and Spotsylvania is one of the fastest-growing counties in Virginia. Meanwhile, the Star has entered the high-tech age, with 23 computer terminals in the cramped newsroom and an offset printing press next door...
...horn-rimmed oracle in the land. Beware. Lest a layman become so emboldened that he or she starts holding forth at cocktail parties without having done the homework, Cerf and Navasky offer the last words of John B. Sedgwick, a Union Army general at the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" -By Donald Morrison
...theater, really. They demand an audience - someone has to hear them, after all. More than that, they have been traditionally uttered with a high solemnity. Some last words have the irony of inadvertence - as when Civil War General John Sedgwick was heard to say during the battle of Spotsylvania Court House, "Why, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " But premeditated last words - the deathbed equivalent of Neil Armstrong's "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," the canned speech uttered when setting off for other worlds - have a Shakespearean grandiloquence about...
Ashley Halsey Spotsylvania...
...fact conflict liberated him. The veteran officer was a brigadier general by August 1861, a major general the following February after winning the unconditional surrender of Fort Donelson in Tennessee. Grant soon perceived that the war meant annihilation. He pursued that vision personally in bloody battles at Vicksburg, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, and more remotely when he commanded Philip Sheridan to leave the Shenandoah Valley "a barren waste...