Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pattern-Smashers. In Gettysburg, Mrs. Margaret McCleaf reached 100, said she had no idea how she had done it. In Kenton, Ohio, Samuel Bidinger, who had never been late to work in 20 years, finally muffed it by an hour and five minutes...
...ever found out what General Patton wrote in his last letter to his wife-how we knew about the sail boat he has tied up against future leisure (it's called The When and If)-how we knew about his fighting the battles of Manassas and Gettysburg over again on the spot with his young son. More important, I wondered how we knew so intimately just how General Patton felt about the way the fighting had been going in Tunisia...
Tunisia was strange and far from the American traditions he had absorbed. He had often taken his wife and his namesake son, maps, books, thermos bottle and lunch, to the fields of Manassas and Gettysburg, and he and his army of Pattons had fought the battles out. "George, go down in that field, you're Beauregard's artillery. . . . And Bea, you go over there in those trees and don't move until I tell you." Tunisia was far from wooded Georgia and bloody Chickamauga, far from the tableland beside the Tennessee where Grant won the battle...
...Gettysburg, 1863, reopened the road to Richmond. Had the Federals followed through, they might have broken the Confederates once and for all. Federal casualties...
...Civil War, Sherman opened the Atlanta Campaign at 44. ... Stonewall Jackson was 39 when fatally wounded at Chancellorville. . . . Grant was almost 43 at Appomattox. Lee, his opponent, superb in defense and not so good in the offensive campaigns of Antietam and Gettysburg...