Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gettysburg battlefield the dogwood and redbud trees were tipped with green; robins and bluebirds sang in their branches. In the Gettysburg Soldiers' National Cemetery, buds were close to bursting on giant azaleas and big tulip trees...
...infantry outfit in the battle at Contreras in the Mexican War-the only occasion when it had no big guns to work with. Battery D was the first unit rushed to Washington during the Civil War to look after the capital's defenses, saw action at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg. In World War I, the battery spread its death-shade at the Marne, Cantigny, the Argonne, Saint-Mihiel, was among the last units to return from France. Many of its numerous battle streamers were won in World...
Also included in the book: a brief biographical sketch of Lincoln by Editor Lorant; important documents (among them the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation) in Lincoln's handwriting; the photographic record of the assassination...
Lincoln has inspired symphonies by Daniel Gregory Mason, Russell Bennett, Silas Pratt; a Requiem (on the Gettysburg Address) by Rubin Goldmark; an Abraham Lincoln Song (to Walt Whitman's O Captain! My Captain!) by Walter Damrosch. None ever caught on. And last week Cincinnati critics had their doubts after listening to Weinberger's symphony, given by Eugene Goossens and the Cincinnati Symphony. Weinberger plunged heavily into Deep River, splashing the spiritual not only in his "heroic scherzo" but also in a final rondo. The other movements were subtitled "6 Captain! My Captain!" and "The Hand on the Plough...
Next day, like every dutiful visitor to Washington, the Duke went to see the Lincoln Memorial, like every visitor read slowly to himself the stone-chiseled inscriptions, Lincoln's Second Inaugural and the Gettysburg Address. That afternoon he and the Duchess, after two stiff little luncheons, one stuffy little dinner in the refrigerated privacy of the British Embassy, entrained for Chicago and for Calgary, Alberta, for the Edward Prince Ranch at High River, in the grand loneliness and peace of the Rocky Mountains. The minimum of officialdom saw them to the station...