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Born. To Lieut. Felix Anthony ("Doc") Blanchard, 24, hefty "Mr. Inside" of West Point's great wartime football teams, now a jet-plane pilot, and Josephine ("Jody") King Blanchard, 22, San Antonio socialite: their first child, a son; in Sumter, S.C. Name: Felix Anthony 3rd. Weight...
...most important events in Johnny Shawnessy's life are accompanied and paralleled by the events of the Civil War period. His marriage to Susanna takes place at the time of John Brown's execution. Their child is born on the night after the cannonade against Fort Sumter. Then Johnny learns Susanna's secret: she fears her mother was not the woman her father married, but his mistress, a handsome mulatto. During the days of Gettysburg, her mind finally gives way and she burns down the house, killing her child...
...Sphinx of Springfield," cried Dr. Tansill, wagging a lean finger in the general direction of a bust of Lincoln (which stared sadly south), played "fast and loose" with Southerners "in order to trick them into a bombardment of that famous Fort [Sumter]." He had blocked all Southern conciliation attempts, had succeeded in starting the War Between the States and then laying the blame on the South. But, sputtered Dr. Tansill, the South should not even now think of its "struggle for freedom" as a "lost cause." "The glorious Confederate flag . . . Belleau Wood . . . Patton's crusaders . . , never be furled...
Virginia was a reluctant seceder. The state did not leave the Union until Fort Sumter was fired on and President Lincoln called for volunteers. In the first flush of secession and war optimism, in the almost carefree mood of Richmond, any Confederate could take care of ten Yankees. The deceptive mood was heightened by the victory at Bull Run. General McClellan's guns, as he inched up the Peninsula less than a year later, sounded the first grim note...
Bloomer Girl. Stylish, tuneful Civil War musical, more concerned with feminists than with Fort Sumter (TIME...