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...fence-vault, which was well contested by six men; Fessenden, '86, Lander, '86, Leavitt, '89, Snyder, '86, L. S. Thayer, '88, and Batchelder, L. S. Thayer was the first to drop out and Batchelder soon followed. Leavitt and Snyder failed at six feet seven and a half inches. Lander fell out at six feet nine. The event was won by Fessenden with a vault of six feet ten and a quarter inches...
Craig and Dudley next appeared for their third round, Dudley evidently none the better for his severe fall in the second round. After some three minutes work, in which neither seemed to get any decided advantage, they locked and fell together against one of the benches, Dudley striking his head. Upon this last misfortune Dudley was obliged to withdraw and the fall and bout were given to Craig. Time...
...Then Lee fell a few miles back, and drew up to the north and east of Sharpsburg, where all his troops, except Hill's division, joined him. The Union forces were drawn up against him; and both sides fought fiercely during the seventeenth. Both parties were exhausted, and the Confederates began to draw in their lines. Then Sedgwick's fresh division of 6000 northern men made a charge. But at that moment Hill came up with his soldiers from Harper's Ferry, charged Sedgwick in the flank, and in twenty minutes routed the whole division. Then Burnside's troops drove...
...nightfall then Lee held the same ground; although both sides were exhausted. McClellan was too much disorganized to attack the next day, and accordingly he waited for reinforcements. But meanwhile Lee fell back across the Potomac. McClellan's fault was not failure to attack again, but to attack one day earlier, while one-third of Lee's forces were at Harper's Ferry...
...work in Germany. There, with indefatigable industry and love, he pushed his-noble work which took eight centuries and a Luther to undo. He became arch-bishop and papal legate. From his home in Britain came zealous men and women to aid him in his work. At last he fell a victim to his ideal and died a martyr's death, killed by the men he was attempting to save...