Word: tarheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tarheel Joseph Martin had fought in the Mexican War in 1848 and trained Confederate troops in the Civil War. (The book also states he died...
Last September, this military Utopia ended with a bang. Fort Bragg was to be turned into a training centre for 67,000 men: the job had to be completed in six and a half months. Army quartermasters, civilian contractors, 30,000 Tarheel work men moved in to construct 2,562 new buildings, 93 miles of paved roads, 75 miles of water mains, 60 miles of sewer lines, an 8,000,000-gallon (per day) water system, 60 miles of electric power lines, other huge essentials. The cantonment would be North Carolina's third largest city. By last week...
Attendant griefs, bungles, triumphs at Fort Bragg helped to explain why the Army had to up its cost estimates a third. Green surveyors in the pine woods at Bragg sometimes made ridiculous mistakes, staked out building sites where none was supposed to be. Many a Tarheel carpenter had to be taught his trade on the job (but General Devers was lucky: of all his laborers, only the plumbers had a union shop). Uncanny disasters twice hit the already insufficient water supply. On two different days, a million gallons unaccountably vanished from the reservoirs. General Devers twice had to forbid bathing...