Word: wilkeson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story was one of the best pieces of reporting to appear anywhere in the U.S. press last week. It was in the New York Times, credited to Correspondent Samuel Wilkeson, and carried the July 4 dateline under which it was written-from Gettysburg exactly a century ago. Times editors offered it as memorable reading for the kind of double anniversary marked by the U.S. last week, and played it on Page One. For through Wilkeson's eyes, the panorama of triumph and tragedy of civil war at its most crucial moment came alive again. Wrote Wilkeson: Blue & Grey...
...guns. But they met men who were their equals in spirit and their superiors in tenacity. There never was better fighting since Thermopylae than was done yesterday by our infantry and artillery . . ." In the end, the Union defenses held, and the rebels were sent into rout. For Timesman Wilkeson, there was glory, but little pleasure in victory. At the height of battle, he had found the crushed body of his son, 19-year-old Lieut. Bayard Wilkeson, a Union artillery man. "My pen is heavy," he wrote that night. "Oh, you dead, who at Gettysburgh have baptized with your blood...