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...Brumidi and Filippo Costaggini, had used up 274 ft. of the available 300 in getting from Columbus to the Gold Rush (among the scenes generously laid out in their panels: Pocahontas saving the life of Captain John Smith, William Penn's treaty with the Indians, the death of Tecumseh). That left 26 ft. for everything since. Cox's solution will be three brief scenes bringing the U.S. up to the age of flight: 1) Union and Confederate soldiers shaking hands after the Civil War, 2) the gun crew of a U..S. warship in the Spanish-American...
...General William Tecumseh Sherman wrote: "If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you." In 1884, he wired the Republican National Convention at Chicago: "I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected...
...William Tecumseh Sherman was far from insane. Though he certainly overestimated the forces facing him in Kentucky, he was in many respects the most brilliant commander the Union had, and one of the few who saw the war from its beginning as a brutal, hellish struggle to the death. Sherman's trouble was that his mind was all too subtly balanced, that he was a man of imagination as well...
...flash decision. Already the author of a lively biography of William Tecumseh Sherman (1932), Lewis had been collecting research on Grant for a dozen years. At Libertyville, freed from the grind of daily journalism, 54-year-old Lloyd Lewis began to burrow into his mound of notes...
...Among them: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, Fighting Joe Hooker...