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Bloomer Girl. Handsome, tuneful Civil War musical, more concerned with fem inists than Fort Sumter (TIME...
...Northern Virginia. By 1926 he was ready to begin writing his four-volume, authoritative biography, R. E. Lee. It made him famous and virtually ended arguments about the General. Dr. Freeman reputedly knew where Lee had been each hour through the 35,000 hours between the firing on Sumter and the surrender at Appomattox (TIME...
Holmes was in his final year at Harvard when Fort Sumter was bombarded. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry, was wounded three times. The second time, as he lay near death in a cornfield, a passing chaplain murmured: "You're a Christian, aren't you? Well then, that's all right." The third time his right heel was almost torn off. Captain Holmes kept the wound open with a sliver of carrot. "I pinched W's heel a little the other day," wrote his jolly father, "and asked him into what vegetable...
...history-shaping event of each period takes the main headline, the story being told in 1944 idiom. Other stories reflect the background. For example, in the four editions covering the Civil War period - from the headlined "Sumter Surrenders, War Begins" to "Lincoln Assassinated" - there are stories on the European reaction, the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, the first transatlantic cable, Queen Victoria's troubles with India, and Blondin's crossing of Niagara on a cable...
Propriety. In Sumter, S.C., John and Katherine Proper were jailed for not being clothed properly...