Word: appomattox
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Even the chairman of the Civil War Centennial Commission, himself the author of a series of massive volumes on the subject, was beginning to weary of the seemingly endless conCattonation of recreated battles and retrospective books. "The sigh of relief that went up over the real Appomattox in 1865," suggested Historian Allan Nevins, 71, "may conceivably be nothing to the national sigh of relief that will go up over the commemorated Appomattox...
...Thurber's readers, all paid-up members of the age, of anxiety, knew very well they were in bad shape, and so Walter Mitty's moonings were hauntingly their own. So was Grant's frightful hangover as he surrendered confusedly to Lee at Appomattox, and the nameless little man's fright as he stood before the house that looked to him like a great, crouching wife...
...easy. The Rayburns were a poor farm family, and Father W. M. Rayburn-a Civil War cavalryman who had ridden to Appomattox with Robert E. Lee-was barely able to feed his eleven children. "Character is all I have to give you," he told his sons. "Be a man." Sam went off to East Texas College, paid his own way by sweeping floors and ringing the school bell. Before he left home, his father pressed $25-the family savings-into his hand...
...American Heritage (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Dean Jagger plays General Robert E. Lee in "Gentlemen's Decision," a dramatization of the surrender at Appomattox...
...combat blew, to live under fire, to endure the privation, hardship and danger of the campaign for months on end, and to send to the illustrated newspapers that employed them rough and hasty sketches whose chief purpose was to cue the wood engraver back home. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox-at Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and the Wilderness-they recorded the bloody course of the conflict with a vitality that has earned them a unique and permanent place in the annals of the press...