Word: fredericksburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place where Washington passed most of his boyhood has also been the subject of much controversy; recently this too has been settled, definite proof having been obtained that it was at the old Strother's Farm opposite Fredericksburg. At present little remains of this historic farmhouse, with the possible exception of a shed popularly called "The Surveyor's Office," which might very well have been a chicken-coop...
...President Coolidge went into Virginia, dedicated with a speech the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial. He recited the history of Virginia's famed sons beginning with Nathaniel Bacon. Patrick Henry, George Washington. He lauded the courage of General Robert E. Lee. And then: "The main reason why we can .all join in the movement to commemorate the deeds of immortal valor which marked these battlefields is because we all realize that out of a common expiation our common country has been greatly blessed. . . . The growth which our country has made since 1860 and the benefits which...
Burnside, McClellan's successor, stupidly massed an attack on Fredericksburg and was decisively beaten. At Chancellorsville, "esteemed among foreign critics the most brilliant action of the century," Lee, outmanoeuvered for once, literally led his men, who worshipped him, to defeat a force twice their size. But his final stab failed when a subordinate erred at Gettysburg...
...Fredericksburg...
...PLAYS DIXIE-Morris Markey-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Author Markey, the latest recruit to that swelling corps of young Manhattan newsgatherers who write disillusioned novels about wars, is not unaccomplished. His story has many an authentically stirring moment-a Yankee band challenging the Rebels with "Dixie" before the carnage at Fredericksburg; a sardonic Southern gallant shooting between his horse's ears on a midnight pursuit; the preparations for a lonely sabre duel; a bright-haired Richmond belle riding through magnolia-fragrant lanes and other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely upon...