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...masked the most furious fighter of the Confederacy. If retreat was necessary, he prayed that "a kind Providence may enable us to inflict a terrible wound." An officer who rode with him noted: "In advance, his trains were left far behind. In retreat, he would fight for a wheelbarrow." He marched and starved his men, if necessary, without mercy...
...claimants, the trial was as picturesque as an old explorer's diary. It was so complicated that Court Reporter G. L. Dahl filled 327 notebooks with almost 5,000,000 words of testimony, accumulated so many exhibits that he finally took to hauling them to the courtroom by wheelbarrow (see cut). At stake was the ownership of 495 acres of Montgomery County oil land estimated to be worth...
Possum In Elherton Ga. a hound named Buck incapacitated by a broke leg went hunting with Sheriff John Starke. Pushed in a wheelbarrow, he treed three possiums without once leaving his seat...
...drove them back with more than 20 casualties. Later that night, though wounded, he repeated the performance. When he was finally ordered to withdraw his platoon, he did so in good order, but found his batman (orderly) had been left behind. He went back, fetched the orderly in a wheelbarrow, then passed...
...marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote, using an upturned wheelbarrow for a desk. On it he wrote As I Lay Dying, rewrote Sanctuary, laid out his series of connected novels dealing with the mythical, haunted, decadent Southern town of Jefferson...