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...this time Halleck, an astute cabinet soldier, but unpractical, succeeded Fremont in command in the West. The power of the Confederates was finally broken by the battle of Pea Ridge, in March...
...Confederates at once determined to invade the state. Gen Leonidas Polk entered at the west, and established himself in a strongly fortified position at Columbus. The Confederate line extended from here to the Cumberland Gap, far to the east, under the command of Gen. A. S. Johnston...
...company was organized last year under the command of Lieutenant Robinson who was appointed by the government to give military drill at Harvard. The uniform is the undress gray cadet uniform, the same as is worn at West Point...
Hamlen who has been playing quarterback on the second seems to have a very good command of the men. Yesterday when he succeeded B. Hayes the second eleven picked up wonderfully in its aggressiveness. As a result several large gains were made and the first eleven had to work much harder than usually...
...without its meaning to us that under yonder elm Washington first took command of the American Army and that the Massachusetts Legislature driven from the State House by the cannon of the British troops, met in the college chapel, or that the College having waited for a century and a half before conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws to men outside her own number, elected George Washington as the first to whom this order should be given. Or to take a later scene, in the early days of the Civil War in 1861, the diary of the treasurer...