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Word: spottsylvania (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thirty-ninth reunion. They were a lean, wiry lot, with 84-year-old drummer boys as youngsters of the gathering. The U. S. Marine Band played "Dixie." So great was the excitement that two oldsters were hospitalized. One died. Old codgers sat about swapping stories of Fair Oaks, Chickamauga, Spottsylvania Court House. Time, for a few days, was turned back for these lingering old men to a better, brighter land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Men of Grey | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Spottsylvania Court House where trees were felled by steady musket-fire; at North Anna where Lee entrenched before Grant could arrive; at Cold Harbor where steady artillery hammering failed utterly against tall breastworks, Lee baited Grant, taunted him, hurt him. Petersburg saw Lee defending the Danville railway, source of Confederate supplies, and losing men. Grant lost more, but had more to lose. The pressure was beginning to tell on Lee. In the spring of 1865, a gallant remnant of Lee's army, to whose "tattered standards the fortunes of the Confederacy had been nailed," laid down its arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Unveiling | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...Passed a bill directing that an inspection be made of the battlefields of Fredericksburg and Spottsylvania, with a view to preserving and marking historical sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Jun. 2, 1924 | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

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