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BEIRUT (AP) — The images showed lifeless children — wrapped in simple white cloths, their pale faces unmarked by any wound — lined up shoulder to shoulder in a vivid demonstration of an attack Wednesday in which activists say the Syrian regime killed at least 130 people with toxic gas.
The Syrian government adamantly denied using chemical weapons in an artillery barrage targeting suburbs east of Damascus, calling the allegations "absolutely baseless." The U.S., Britain and France demanded that a team of U.N. experts already in the country be granted immediate access to investigate the claims.
Videos and photographs showed row upon row of bodies wrapped in white shrouds lying on a tile floor, including more than a dozen children. There was little evidence of blood or conventional injuries and most appeared to have suffocated. Survivors of the purported attack, some twitching uncontrollably, lay on gurneys with oxygen masks covering their faces.
Activists and the opposition leadership gave widely varying death tolls, ranging from as low as 136 to as high as 1,300. But even the most conservative tally would make it the deadliest alleged chemical attack in Syria's civil war.
For months now, the rebels, along with the United States, Britain and France, have accused the Syrian government of using chemical weapons in its campaign to try to snuff out the rebellion against President Bashar Assad that began in March 2011. The regime and its ally, Russia, have denied the allegations, pinning the blame on the rebels.
The murky nature of the purported attacks, and the difficulty of gaining access to the sites amid the carnage of Syria's war, has made it impossible to verify the claims. After months of negotiations, a U.N. team finally arrived in Damascus on Sunday to begin its investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria. But the probe is limited to three sites and only seeks to determine whether chemical agents were used, not who unleashed them.
The timing of Wednesday's attack — four days after the U.N. team's arrival — raised questions about why the regime would use chemical agents now. The White House said the U.S. was "deeply concerned" by the reports, and spokesman Josh Earnest said the Obama administration had requested that the U.N. "urgently investigate this new allegation."
"If the Syrian government has nothing to hide and is truly committed to an impartial and credible investigation of chemical weapons use in Syria, it will facilitate the U.N. team's immediate and unfettered access to this site," Earnest said.
Almost exactly one year ago, President Barack Obama called chemical weapons a "red line" for potential military action, and in June, the U.S. said it had conclusive evidence that Assad's regime had used chemical weapons against opposition forces.
But the possibility of intervention seemed ever smaller after Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a letter this week that the administration is opposed to even limited action because it believes rebels fighting the Assad government wouldn't support American interests.
Russia decried Wednesday's reports as "alarmist." Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich denounced an "aggressive information campaign" laying full blame on the Syrian government as a provocation aimed at undermining efforts to convene peace talks between the two sides.
The regime began shelling the capital's eastern suburbs of Zamalka, Arbeen and Ein Tarma around 3 a.m. as part of a fierce government offensive in the area, which has a strong rebel presence, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.
The heavy thud of artillery and rockets, as well as the grinding roar of fighter jets, could be heard by Damascus residents throughout the night and early Wednesday, and a pall of gray smoke hung over the towns.
Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman cited activists in the area who said "poisonous gas" was fired in rockets as well as from the air. He said that he had documented at least 136 deaths, but said it was not clear whether the victims died from shelling or toxic gas.
The Local Coordination Committees activist group said hundreds of people were killed or wounded. The Syrian National Coalition, the main Western-backed opposition group in exile, put the number at 1,300, basing its claim on accounts and photographs by activists on the ground.
George Sabra, a senior member of the Coalition, blamed the regime, as well as "the weakness of the U.N. and American hesitation" for the deaths. "The silence of our friends is killing us," he said, adding that Wednesday's attack effectively eliminated any chance for peace negotiations with the regime.
Syria is said to have one of the world's largest stockpiles of chemical weapons, including mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin. Jean Pascal Zanders, an independent researcher who specializes in chemical and biological weapons and disarmament, said that in videos of the aftermath of the attacks, the hue of the victims' faces appeared to show many suffered from asphyxiation.
However, he said the symptoms they exhibited were not consistent with mustard gas or the nerve agents VX or sarin. Mustard gas would cause blistering of the skin and discoloration, while the nerve agents would produce severe convulsions in the victims and also affect the paramedics treating them — neither of which was evident from the videos or reports.
"I'm deliberately not using the term chemical weapons here," he said. "There's plenty of other nasty stuff that was used in the past as a chemical warfare agent, so many industrial toxicants could be used too."
A pharmacist in the town of Arbeen who identified himself as Abu Ahmad said he attended to dozens of wounded people in a field hospital after the shelling on Zamalka and Ein Tarma early Wednesday. He said many were moved to Arbeen.
The bodies of 63 of the dead had signs of a chemical weapons attack, he said, though he could not confirm this. "Their mouths were foaming, their pupils were constricted, and those who were brought in while still alive could not draw their breaths and died subsequently," he told The Associated Press via Skype. "The skin around their eyes and noses was grayish."
Activists in nearby Zamalka told Abu Ahmed that an additional 200 people died in that town on Wednesday. Syria's information minister, Omran al-Zoubi, denied government troops used chemical agents, calling the activists' claim a "disillusioned and fabricated one whose objective is to deviate and mislead" the U.N. mission.
The head of the U.N. team, which has a mandate to investigate previous claims of alleged chemical attacks, said he wants to look into the latest claims. Speaking to Swedish broadcaster SVT, Ake Sellstrom said the high numbers of dead and wounded being reported "sound suspicious."
"It looks like something we need to look into," Sellstrom, who is Swedish, was quoted as saying. He said a formal request from a member state would have to go through U.N. channels and Syria would need to agree — and there is no guarantee that it would.
French President Francois Hollande said the latest allegations "require verification and confirmation," according to government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. Hollande said he would ask the U.N. to go to the site "to shed full light" on the allegations.
In addition to the U. S. and Britain, Germany, Turkey and the EU called for immediate U.N. access to the site of the alleged attack. The Syrian government did not immediately respond to the demands. The U.N. Security Council held emergency consultations about the purported attack, and U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said Sellstrom's team was in talks with the Syrian government about all alleged chemical attack, including Wednesday's.
Mohammed Saeed, an activist in the area, told the AP via Skype that hundreds of dead and injured people were rushed to six makeshift hospitals in the eastern suburbs of Damascus. "This is a massacre by chemical weapons," he said. "The visit by the U.N. team is a joke. … (Assad) is using the weapons and telling the world that he does not care."
Photos posted on Facebook by an activist group in Arbeen showed rows of Syrian children wrapped in white shrouds, and others with their chests bare. There appeared to be very little sign of blood or physical wounds on the bodies.
In an amateur video posted online, a young girl with curly brown hair wearing a Minnie Mouse shirt lay on the ground, her head lolling on the tile floor as doctors injected medicine into her arm. Next to her, paramedics attended to two young boys who appeared unconscious, their bodies limp.
The photos and videos distributed by activists to support their claims were consistent with AP reporting of shelling in the area, though it was not known if the victims died from a poisonous gas attack.
Associated Press writers Zeina Karam and Bassem Mroue in Beirut, Lynn Berry in Moscow, Amir Bibawy in New York, Sarah El Deeb in Cairo, Malin Rising in Stockholm, Sylvie Corbet in Paris and Julie Pace in Washington contributed to this report.


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Today: After nearly two months of back-and-forth, Carl Icahn suggests eBay should sell just part of PayPal in an initial public offering, but gets another denial. Also: Stocks fall after Fed changes language in interest rates, Oracle dips after earnings.
The Lead: Carl Icahn suggests PayPal IPO, eBay sticks to its guns
Activist investor Carl Icahn toned down his harsh language toward eBay on Wednesday, pulling back from demands for a full PayPal spinoff to suggest an initial public offering that would allow the San Jose e-commerce giant to retain 80 percent of its online-payments company. eBay's response: Thanks, but no thanks.
The back-and-forth between Icahn and eBay began with the company's January earnings report, when eBay reported that Icahn had invested in the company and nominated two of his employees for eBay's board of directors while proposing a spinoff of PayPal. Since then, Icahn has openly and aggressively denigrated the company's CEO and board, mostly focusing on the sale of Skype to a group of investors that included Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm that includes eBay director Marc Andreessen.
eBay has fought back with increasingly confrontational blog posts and responses from outside parties, while weathering a storm that has moved so far afield that one analyst suggested the best possible move would be a Google acquisition of eBay.
Icahn toned down his language Wednesday in another missive that offered a compromise: Sell 20 percent of PayPal in an IPO, while signing a deal that ensures that the synergies between the two companies that benefit PayPal remain after the stock sale.
"A 20% IPO of PayPal could allow for all of the benefits of an independent PayPal, preserves all of the benefits of keeping PayPal in-house and could be structured so as to be tax free to shareholders," Icahn wrote.
Late in Wednesday's trading session, eBay responded with a blog post that likewise avoided a confrontational tone, but still refused to go down Icahn's suggested path.
"A partial separation of PayPal is not a new idea, and we're glad to see that Mr. Icahn now seems to agree that a full separation of PayPal is not a good idea," the company's blog post read, while continuing to shoot down the partial IPO.
"We've asked ourselves: Will a partial spin make PayPal more competitive? Will it accelerate growth? Will it be possible without distracting PayPal at a critically important time? And, importantly, will it create sustainable value for shareholders over time? Today, we believe the answer to these questions is no."
Part of Icahn's pitch is more transparency on PayPal's financials, which he believes would help investors and analysts, but Wedbush Securities analyst Gil Luria, who covers eBay, did not agree with that stance.
"He says analysts can't analyze the business properly, and a partial IPO would help," Luria told Marketwatch. "The truth is we know the revenue numbers and we have all we need to do our jobs."
eBay's stock fell toward the end of Wednesday's trading session, about the time the company's response was released, and ended the day with a 0.9 percent decline at $57.30.
SV150 market report: Wall Street declines after Fed announcement
eBay was not alone in Wednesday's decline, as Wall Street suffered in the afternoon session, after new Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen spoke about the central bank's plans, which include unbundling short-term interest rates from the unemployment rate and more cuts in bond purchases. Silicon Valley stocks outperformed the larger indexes but still suffered a decline as Oracle, Adobe and SolarCity fell following their earnings reports.
Oracle fell 0.8 percent to $38.55, bouncing back from larger declines as analysts debated the biggest take-away from the Redwood City software giant's earnings report, which showed gains from last year but still missed some expectations. Adobe added more subscribers to its cloud-software offering than expected and beat financial expectations, but the San Jose company's shares still fell 1.3 percent to $67.63. San Mateo's SolarCity suffered the most severe tumble, declining 5.7 percent to $72.70 after its delayed report showed a profit that was mostly provided by a tax benefit.
Facebook and Google both fell despite an eMarketer report that predicted the online-advertising industry would grow 75 percent in 2014 to $31.5 billion, mostly thanks to the efforts of the two Silicon Valley companies. Google declined 1 percent to $1,199.25 after a judge refused to accept class-action status for a lawsuit dealing with Gmail privacy issues, and Facebook fell 1.4 percent to $68.24 while continuing to prepare for the debut of video advertising on the social network. Facebook rival Twitter gained 0.2 percent to $51.24 while reportedly ditching plans to encrypt direct messages on its service, and fellow social network LinkedIn jumped 2.1 percent to $201.95 while exploring the creation of internal job boards for companies.
Hewlett-Packard enjoyed its second consecutive day of strong gains, rising 3.5 percent to $31.62 as Autonomy's founder accused the Palo Alto tech giant of lying to its shareholders ahead of Wednesday afternoon's annual meeting. Redwood City video game company Electronic Arts lost just a penny to close at $30.23 amid reports that one of the company's websites was compromised, allowing hackers to access Apple IDs for users; Apple also held relatively steady Wednesday, dropping 14 cents to $531.26. Pandora Media fell 0.2 percent to $34.91 after announcing an increase in subscription prices Tuesday afternoon, and Netflix fell 16 cents to $420.09 after announcing a new sitcom with two well-known actresses.
Up: HP, Advanced Micro Devices, Juniper, LinkedIn, SunPower, Nvidia, Sandisk, Intel, Applied Materials, Symantec, Twitter
Down: SolarCity, Zynga, Yelp, Yahoo, Workday, Salesforce, Tesla, Gilead, Facebook, Adobe, Google, NetApp, eBay, VMware, Oracle, Intuit
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Down 6.71, or 0.43 percent, to 1,557.67
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Down 25.71, or 0.59 percent, to 4,307.6
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Down 114.02, or 0.7 percent, to 16,222.17
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Down 11.48, or 0.61 percent, to 1,860.77
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You may remember the drama surrounding John Travolta last year: the "Pulp Fiction" star was pushed into the media spotlight after two unknown male masseurs claimed that the actor sexually assaulted them and were seeking millions in damages. To make matters worse, a few months later, former pilot Doug Gotterba came forward and told the National Enquirer that he and Travolta, 58, had a six-year affair.
Gawker obtained an internal report of insurance claims made against the Travolta's production company, Constellation Productions Inc., which shows four other parties privately issued attorney demand letters "alleging sexual assault" in 2012. They include his stunt double, former driver, and a physical therapist. The report also shows that Travolta's insurer paid more than $84,000 against two of the six claims.
The "loss-run" report from Chartis Insurance shows that one payment was made to a Chicago-area sports therapist, whose allegations were not made known to the public. The other payment for $80,750 went to an unnamed masseur.
Travolta's lawyers emailed the Huffington Post and said that the documents Gawker obtained do not reflect any settlement payments but is the cost incurred in connection with the defense of lawsuits that were filed.
In May 2012, two unnamed male masseurs filed a lawsuit against Travolta for assault and sexual battery. One of the masseurs, named "John Doe," sued the actor for $2 million. The lawsuit claimed that the "Grease" star booked the massage from an online ad, picked up the masseur and eventually brought him to his personal bungalow. Travolta then allegedly undressed in front of him before the message began. After an hour, the lawsuit claims that the actor rubbed the masseur's leg and touched his penis. The masseur says he told Travolta that he would not have sex with him; nonetheless Travolta still offered to perform a sexual act.
As Gawker notes, Travolta was also sued by cruise ship steward Fabian Zanzi, who claimed that in 2009 Travolta asked for a neck massage and then showed him his erect penis. Zanzi's lawsuit claims that the actor offered to give him $12,000 to not report the incident.
The website also says the reports they obtained names Anthony Brazas, which is the name of Travolta's former driver and stand-in. In addition while Gawker identifies James Carney "also listed as having made an assault claim," it adds that Carney's "identity and relationship to Travolta couldn't be determined." The site goes on to say, "A Thai massage therapist in Hawaii named James Carney, whom we had never contacted or heard of before today, emailed to insist that he is not the James Carney who made the claim and demand that his name be removed."
The two mystery masseurs along with Zanzi have since dropped their cases, however.
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Tomboy Style | The Book
Exciting news here at Tomboy Style HQ! Tomboy Style will be coming out in book form next Spring, published by Rizzoli. I will be asking for a lot of your input as I compile, research and write, so please stay tuned. Thank you so much for all your support! —LGM
26 comments:
- Andresgallardo said...
nice collage... love it
- January 29, 2011 at 1:01 PM
- fen and ned said...
That is brilliant news! It will be a great success x
- January 29, 2011 at 2:33 PM
- Ringo, have a banana! said...
SUPER excited!!
- January 29, 2011 at 2:34 PM
- Lexie said...
- January 29, 2011 at 5:25 PM
- Unknown said...
Yes, yes, yes. I love it! Congrats Lizzie!
- January 29, 2011 at 5:30 PM
- NikkiT said...
oh wow, tomboy style in a totally different form! congratulations!<3
- January 30, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- yanqin said...
Wow, definitely looking out for this one. Congratulations! Your site has been a huge source of inspiration for me.
- January 30, 2011 at 2:57 PM
Yay! Congrats!!!
- January 30, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- Jane Kilpatrick Schott said...
I have always thought this was just a great visual about a great subject.
2011 is going to be a great year for you Lizzie. Enjoy every moment of it.
- January 31, 2011 at 2:59 AM
- Katherine said...
how exciting! i love this blog. congratulations, will look forward to buying a copy! :)
- January 31, 2011 at 1:13 PM
- julia wheeler said...
exciting news... i can't wait to buy it! i will re-post!
- January 31, 2011 at 1:17 PM
- Alexandra said...
love the collage.
- January 31, 2011 at 1:40 PM
- girloliver said...
WOW! I am such a fan, this is great, Congrats!
- January 31, 2011 at 4:03 PM
- Danna said...
I will be first in line to buy it!!!!
- January 31, 2011 at 5:31 PM
- Lizzie said...
You guys are too nice! Thank you all so much! I can't wait to get all of your opinions as the process continues! xLGM
- January 31, 2011 at 5:36 PM
- evencleveland said...
Can't wait.
- February 1, 2011 at 6:12 AM
I stop by here every few weeks to soak up the great inspiration, and I can't wait to see it in book form - your blog is definitely one of my favorites. Keep it up!
- February 3, 2011 at 2:28 PM
- tara-lynn / good night, day said...
can't wait!
- February 4, 2011 at 7:14 PM
Congrats sweetie!!!! exciting news! i think you should include my favorite pic of you, 6 years old at the beach wearing wetsuit!!! Tomboy through and through! XO
- February 6, 2011 at 1:09 AM
cannot wait to see it!
- February 14, 2011 at 11:41 AM
- Sandra Eterovic said...
I love this blog!! Right away I thought of Claire McCardell -- you must consider her for your book, as she did so much to enable women to walk, run, ski and swim in with the sort of relatively androgynous comfort and style we now take for granted. Can't wait to see the book!!
- February 28, 2011 at 11:42 PM
Great style. I wish I could write that way.
Tapety na pulpit
- March 18, 2011 at 1:03 PM
- Badaude said...
Oh cool! Just what I've always wanted!
- March 24, 2011 at 3:13 AM
- Jeannie said...
It would be great if the book featured more diverse women as well :) Love the blog, thanks!
- May 20, 2011 at 2:16 PM
That will be a must buy! Congratulations, and looking so forward to seeing it.
- May 21, 2011 at 8:25 AM
- bridget said...
I'm wondering if you will include any tomboy style for tomboy girls in the book? 0-5, 5-10, 10-15...??
my youngest daughter is a committed tomboy & i like to show her how she can still embrace her feminity in a tomboy way, you know what i mean. I want her to be proud of being a girl & not think she needs to be a boy to do the things she wants to do. she's only 4! but i find it all quite fascinating really, her older sister is the opposite...I'd love to see some ideas or inspiration on your blog. :)
- October 17, 2011 at 7:08 PM


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I see why they do it in the south and of course, it goes without saying, in the UK.
Taking time for afternoon tea is an immeasurably nice way to spend an hour or so in the afternoon. And if you've got a girlfriend to catch up on some gossip, all the better. The Harrison House, right now, kind of has a little secret.
But the scones and tea are so nice, it won't be secret for much longer.
If you're looking for an exceedingly quiet place to take tea, a few scones (good ones, with the exception of how they are cut, according to a very knowledgeable British source), some savories, some fruit, and a gorgeous dessert, let me recommend them. No hustle and bustle here, just attentive service and the charm of a Victorian Village house.
The afternoon tea service run by Savvy Spoon Tea is a pop up of sorts, taking advantage of off time in the Harrison House kitchen and its cozy parlor in which to serve it in. All the better for us, who get to enjoy the scones that pop out of the oven as you're arriving and being seated. The tea menu is varied with all good selections, I chose the rose black. The scones were marvelous with a little lemon curd and I was completely enamored with the mushroom pasty. The pear cake was moist and a real treat.


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Chatham County commissioners cited "substantial health and environmental risks" this week in opposing Duke Energy's plan to dump coal ash into open-pit clay mines.
Commissioners adopted a resolution against Duke's plan, announced last month, to send 2.9 million tons of ash to mines in Chatham and Lee counties.
Lee County officials have said they want the county to be compensated for taking the waste, likening it to host fees typically paid for regional solid waste landfills.
The Chatham resolution says the plan would expose residents to risks from potentially toxic elements in ash. It identifies "shortcomings" in the legislation this year that ordered Duke to close its 32 ash ponds, including lack of local control over ash disposal and fees.
Duke has said it needs to move quickly to meet deadlines set out in the legislation. The initial phase of work would move ash from four power plants, including Riverbend west of Charlotte, starting early next year.
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Chatham County opposes Duke's ash disposal
Chatham County commissioners cited "substantial health and environmental risks" this week in opposing Duke Energy's plan to dump coal ash into open-pit clay mines.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Duke scientists develop coal ash tracers
Duke University researchers said Tuesday they have developed a new tool to tell when water is contaminated by coal ash and not by other sources.
Regulators will be able to "trace the coal ash effluents to their source," Avner Vengosh, a Duke professor of geochemistry and water quality, said in a statement.
The research is timely for North Carolina, where contaminated groundwater has been found at all 14 of Duke Energy's coal-fired power plants and seepage reported from ash pond dams. What hasn't been clear is whether the contamination came from ash or natural sources.
Duke, under the legislature's orders, is drilling hundreds of new wells at its plants to detect the extent, flow and sources of contaminated groundwater.
Chemical variations have previously been used to identify ash contaminants. The forensic tracers Duke University developed are based on the distinctive characteristics of two elements found in ash, boron and strontium.
The isotopes in boron that come from coal ash always differ from naturally-occurring boron, said Laura Ruhl, a former Duke graduate student now teaching at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Strontium is less distinct, she said, but using the two elements together provides "definitive evidence" whether contamination is from ash.
Vengosh and Ruhl published their findings this week in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology. Co-authors included Gary Dwyer and Heileen Hsu-Kim of Duke and James Hower of the University of Kentucky.
Monday, December 1, 2014
Dan River bottom life is thriving, DENR says
North Carolina's environmental agency says bugs "appear to be thriving" at the bottom of the Dan River downstream of Duke Energy's February coal ash spill.
Department of Environment and Natural Resources staff sampled upriver and about two miles downriver of the spill on Oct. 28. It was DENR's first testing of the aquatic insects, worms and other invertebrates at the base of the food chain. Their numbers, type and diversity signal a river's overall health.
Findings were similar in both places and had the highest biological rating, the department said.
Tests of water quality, river sediment and fish tissue are continuing. The results will be factored into a natural resource damage assessment that state and federal agencies are conducting.
Biologists have said that river-bottom creatures were likely smothered by up to 39,000 tons of ash that Duke's Dan River power plant dumped into 70 miles of river.
Operations to suck up the deposits got only 3,000 tons of ash and sediment. Duke and the Environmental Protection Agency said trying to retrieve all the ash would do more ecological harm than leaving it in place.


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First Look: The Neuhaus Chocolate Flagship Store on Madison Avenue
If you've ever enjoyed a praline—the European chocolate confection with a paste made of nuts and sugar, not the New Orleans praw-leehn—you have Neuhaus to thank. Though the Belgian company (which celebrated its sesquicentennial a few years ago) has had a presence in New York for a while now, the new Madison Avenue location is their proud flagship.
And a flagship it is: an everything-on-display, chandelier-lit, part-store-part-museum temple to Old World chocolate. Like the Upper East Side branch of Ladurée, the staff at Neuhaus carefully guide customers through the whole chocolate buying experience: choosing specific chocolates to their tastes and packaging it in boxes of their choice. This is, in large part, geared towards gift giving, but it's also a display of earnest desire to share the chocolate love with a new crop of New Yorkers. One staffer, who has worked with the company for four years, explained why he loves his work: "it's one of the few jobs that's solely based on making people happy."
Neuhaus specializes in filled chocolates: pralinés (hazelnuts and/or almonds blended with chocolate and sugar), nougatines (chocolate-coated rolls of nougatine toffee with assorted fillings, which are still made by hand), and manons (hard chocolate shells around a cream or ganache center). But they also offer truffles, solid dark and milk chocolates, creamy confections of pure gianduja, the chocolate-hazelnut paste that puts Nutella to shame.
Pralines and chocolates can be purchased from pre-assembled boxes (either from the general line or from special collections) or é la carte. Most cost $57 per pound—about 30 pralines—with no minimum per order.
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Here's What Eleven Mid-Termers Had To Say!
Have you got the "glow" of pregnancy? One mom, halfway through her pregnancy, asked, "I was wondering how many of us have found that 'Pregnancy Glow?'" Here's what eleven mid-termers had to say!I was told yesterday I had a glow, too, but I didn't feel glowing. However, we were having parent teacher interviews, so I had my"dress up" clothes on and must have looked the cute pregnant woman... But a glow, I'm not convinced. I've got lots of acne I cover up with makeup and I'm constantly blowing my nose these days, so I don't feel 'glowing.' - Sue
I have recieved numerous compliments about having a glow. Personally, I don't know what they are talking about. I feel so unattractive most of the time. - Crystal
A lady at work told me once that I was glowing. I think it was because I was happy that day and smiling a lot. But on the other hand, my hair is looking pretty good and so is my skin. I think the extra water and prenatal vitamins are helping out a lot. - Gisel
When I can be bothered to put a little moisturiser and mascara on and go out, people say to me "you look really well" or "you really are blooming now". I think they are just saying it to make me feel better though, because when I look in the mirror I really do look like crap! - Meg
With my daughter, I really did glow. I think it was because during my second trimester I felt so good (better than I ever had before) and I was so happy. I'm still waiting for this with this pregnancy. I am looking a bit better. The 'green' look of the first trimester has left, and I'm not looking so old. - Stephanie
I think that if I am dressed nicely, freshly showered, and are feeling good, then I am glowing....if I am not any of these things, you can be sure the 'glow' is just cause my skin is oily from not having been washed. - Shannon
Nope, no glow here either. I'm just sick and exhausted all the time, and the best I've gotten from people is, 'You don't look so green today.' - Tricia
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It is a southern saying that "It is a rich man's war…
but a poor man's fight." That seems to bear out as truth in most, if not all, wars that our nation has been involved in. The north has always tried to beat the south down by saying that the War for Southern Independence was about slavery. Hogwash.
The writings of the soldiers of the south that I have been privileged to read all make such an assertion into hogwash. Slavery was only introduced into the war at the behest of Abraham Lincoln at a point in the long and weary war that he seemed to be on the brink of losing his cause. Additionally, it was initiated at the point when his soldiers were weary of the fight, and were not willing to fight any longer. Even the textbooks list Abraham Lincoln has the 16th President which is false as far as the south is concerned. Abraham Lincoln was never President of the states who seceded, which included Alabama. The President at that time and place was Jefferson Davis. They are so persistent in changing our history. But the rebels have been a little stronger in not allowing that to happen, yet.
The War for Southern Independence, or the Civil War as Yankees call it, caused a lot of loss of life and treasure, but it was fought over taxes. Mrs. Maness, a history professor – the best history professor, at the University of North Alabama taught about the era of history of that time. A test question that was more often missed was what caused the Civil War. The indoctrinated answer who be 'slavery' and that answer would have been wrong. The soldiers of the south would almost with one hundred percent agreement also state that 'state's rights' were an even stronger reason that tied into the 'taxes' prompt.
Below is an article from a newspaper that spells this out as clearly as could be explained.
You see, the folks of the south knew a thing or two about government, and they never trusted the gubment from the gitgo. And each and everyone of them knew that every war was started by and for the rich, and the poor man was the soldier risking his guts and glory. The southerns also knew a thing or two about different forms of government, especially since about a hundred years earlier their fathers had fought against King George over a surtax placed on their one indulgence, tea. That started the battle for independence from an oppressive government and they would not stand for that every again.
Forms of Government are much easier to understand than the international globalists would want you to believe. THEY try to distract you from the IMPORTANT issues with celebrity gossip and NON-issues. The Truth remains simple; the difference is simply WHO or WHAT "rules".
The USA is a "Constitutional Republic", which is the most FREE and secure form of government. Historically, Republics have been downgraded to greedy democracies, hostile anarchies, and are finally ruled by dictators under an oligarchy.
Anarchy: Chaos; Ruled by Nobody
Republic: Rule of Law; Constitution
Democracy: Majority Rules
Oligarchy: Ruled by Elite Group
Monarchy: Ruled by King or Queen
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We continue our research of the War Between the States. We will publish a series of books, and will start with another book on the men who served in the 16th Regiment of Alabama Infantry, CSA and their families. Most of this regimentconsisted of men across north Alabama. Many familiar names served in the 16th. Any photos or information would be helpful if you have an ancestor who served. Please identify yourself so that you may be credited with whatyou provide. Please forward photos and text to our email at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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We are also working on books for: Roddy's and Russell's 4th Cavalry, 8th Tennessee, 1st AL & TN Independent Vidette Cavalry USA, 27th Alabama Infantry, 19th Alabama Infantry, and possibly others in the future.
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War on horseback…
was hell; and so many of our native sons fought anyway. Many were in the 1st Alabama & Tennessee Independent Vidette Cavalry. William T Gray was one of those horse soldiers.
War on Horseback
In a war with so much horror, on the field and in the hospitals, there was a desperate need for romance, for glamour. The cavalry was the glamour arm-handsome young men in flowing motion on graceful steeds, embellished with colorful costumes of capes, jackets, plumed hats, knee boots, and fancy spurs. At least it was that way in the beginning. Also in the early weeks of the Civil War, the cavalry on both sides was compact, slow-moving, heavily accoutred, usually operating with the infantry. Experience brought striking changes, first in the Confederate cavalry, considerably later in the Union. After a few battles in conjunction with the infantry, the horse soldiers began cutting loose from their bases to destroy enemy communications and supplies. They burned bridges and stores, ripped out telegraph lines, and raided far behind the lines in attempts to keep the enemy so busy that he could apply only a part of his potential when battle was joined.
Before the war, professional cavalrymen maintained that two years were required to produce a seasoned trooper, a precept that proved to be more applicable to the North than to the South. For the first two years of conflict the exploits of JEB Stuart and John Mosby in the East and the daring raids of Nathan Bedford Forrest and John Hunt Morgan in the West far outshone their Union opposites.
One reason given for the early superiority of Confederate cavalry was that in the South the lack of good highways had forced Southerners to travel by horseback from boyhood, while in the North a generation had been riding in wheeled vehicles. Although there may have been some truth in this, rural young men in the North were also horsemen by necessity, but unlike many of the Southern beaux sabreurs, they had to bear the tedious burden of caring for their animals after plowing behind them all day. Young Northerners who knew horses seemed to have little desire to assume the responsibility of taking them to war, and instead joined the infantry. In the South also, long before the war, young men organized themselves into mounted militia companies, often with romantic names. Although these may have been more social than military, the men learned how to drill, ride daringly, and charge with the saber.
Southern cavalry horses were also superior to Northern horses, largely because of the Southern penchant for racing. Almost every Southern town had its track, and the sport developed a superior stock of blooded fleet-footed animals. In the North, muscular and slow-moving draft horses were the preferred breeds.
At the war's beginning there were only six regiments of United States cavalry, dragoons and mounted riflemen, and a considerable number of their officers resigned to serve with the Confederacy. In the opinion of the United States Army's commanding general, Winfield Scott, improvements in weapons had outmoded cavalry. He was inclined, therefore, to limit the number of cavalry regiments for prosecution of the war, and when Lincoln made his first call for volunteers, only one additional regiment of cavalry was authorized.
After George McClellan took command of the Union Army late in August 1861, the policy was quickly reversed. McClellan named George Stoneman chief of cavalry, and by year's end eighty-two Union volunteer cavalry regiments were in the process of enrollment and outfitting. Most of them were short of proper weapons, trained riders, and good mounts.
One might suppose that McClellan, who wrote the Army's cavalry regulations and developed a saddle that was standard equipment for half a century, would have handled his horsed soldiers with dash and imagination. Instead, he attached them to infantry divisions, scattering them throughout the Army where they were too often misused by assignment to escort and messenger service. Not until the summer of 1863, when a vast cavalry depot was established at Giesboro Point, did the Union Army have the horse power to challenge the Confederacy's mounted units. Located within the District of Columbia across the eastern branch of the Potomac (Anacostia River), Giesboro was the energy source for the great Union cavalry operations of the last two years of war.
Until that time, however, Confederate cavalry was dominant-a dashing, disruptive, and disconcerting force that kept many a Union commander off balance during the early months of war. In the first major battle, at Bull Run on July 21,1861, the pattern for Southern cavalry leaders was set by James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart. During the early afternoon of that day, as General Irvin McDowell's advancing Union Army was being brought to a halt by General Thomas Jackson "standing like a stone wall," Stuart led his 1st Virginia Cavalry into the fight. When a column of New York Zouaves tried to stop the Virginians, Stuart sent his Black Horse troop charging in with flashing sabers and rattling carbines. Stuart's horsemen may not have changed the outcome that day, but they certainly added to the terror of the fleeing soldiers in blue.
A West Point graduate in 1854 and a six-year veteran of Indian fighting on the western frontier, jeb Stuart at twenty-eight was the right man in the right place to create the perfect image of romantic cavalier. He was handsome, he was daring, and he dressed the part, wide-brimmed hat worn at an angle and decorated with an ostrich feather and a gold star, a flowing cape, scarlet-lined jacket, yellow sash around his waist, long gauntlets, golden spurs, and a rose always in his buttonhole.
Two months after Bull Run, Stuart was a brigadier general with five more regiments under his command, and he soon added a battery of horse artillery commanded by John Pelham. After a winter of relative inactivity by both armies, Stuart's cavalry brigade left Manassas junction to join in the defense of Richmond, which was threatened by McClellan's growing forces on the Virginia peninsula. Events moved rapidly for the Confederates that spring, with former cavalryman Robert E. Lee replacing the wounded Joe Johnston as commander of the armies in northern Virginia.
Early in June 1862, Lee sent Stuart on a reconnaissance mission that turned into a spectacular ride around the entire invading army of McClellan. With 1,200 of his finest horsemen, Stuart reached the South Anna River on the first day, then turned to the southeast along the Federal flank. After two small skirmishes Stuart made a daring decision to circle the rear of McClellan's army. To cross the Chickahominy, his men had to rebuild a bridge before they could start their return along McClellan's left flank. All the while they were, busily capturing and burning supply trains, wrecking railroads, and destroying communications. Ironically, Stuart's opposite cavalry commander in McClellan's army was his father-in-law, Philip St. George Cooke, and at one point the two men were in firing distance of each other.
On June 14 Stuart transferred command to Fitzhugh Lee and dashed on ahead to Richmond to inform his commander of weaknesses in McClellan's defenses. Using this information, General Lee ordered Stonewall Jackson to attack the Union Army's rear and flank, as part of the Seven Days Battles, after which McClellan abandoned his long-planned assault on Richmond and withdrew to Harrison's Landing on the James River.
In the West, meanwhile, an entirely different breed of Confederate cavalry leader was attracting much attention. When the war began, Nathan Bedford Forrest, a forty-year-old cotton planter and livestock trader, enlisted as a private at Memphis, Tennessee. In a matter of days his superiors authorized Forrest to raise a battalion of cavalry, and by August i 86 i he was in command of several companies of volunteers, many of whom he armed and mounted with his own resources. In a way, Forrest was as theatrical in appearance as Stuart–tall, lithe, finely cut features, swarthy complexion, iron-gray hair, and piercing eyes. Although he lacked the cultured background and military training of Stuart, he was not the illiterate country bumpkin he was sometimes depicted, and his language was the common usage of most Westerners of his time. As for his military prowess, Sherman called him "that devil Forrest," and Grant considered him "about the ablest general in the South."
In November 1861 Forrest was raiding as far north as Kentucky. In February 1862 he was at Fort Donelson when the Confederate commanders there decided to surrender to Grant, but instead of surrendering with them, Forrest galloped his men out in a flight to Nashville. In the general retreat from that city, Forrest's cavalry formed a protective rear guard. By early summer he was raiding northward again, capturing Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and its Federal garrison. On October 20 he suffered one of his rare repulses in a skirmish along the Gallatin Pike near Nashville, but later that year he was cutting Grant's communications and harassing his supply lines in western Tennessee.
Also in 1862 another Southern cavalryman began operations in the West. John Hunt Morgan was the cavalier type, a product of the Kentucky Bluegrass, soft-spoken, handsome, a devotee of horses and racing. Long before the war he organized a fashionable militia company, the Lexington Rifles, and around this company late in 1861 he organized the famed 2d Kentucky Cavalry Regiment. Among his recruits was an accomplished telegrapher, George Ellsworth, whose intercepted and faked telegrams became a specialty of Morgan's many cavalry raids. After the fall of Fort Donelson, the Kentuckians withdrew to a Tennessee base, using it for frequent strikes into their home state.
Morgan chose July 4, 1862, to start his first Kentucky raid in force, riding a thousand miles in three weeks, skirmishing, capturing supplies, and recruiting men and horses. Three months later he returned to Kentucky again, this time with Braxton Bragg's army, easily capturing his hometown of Lexington and its Union garrison. Morgan never forgave Bragg for retreating after the Battle of Perryville and abandoning Kentucky to the Federals. On December 21 Morgan left his winter base in Tennessee for a Christmas raid, his most significant accomplishment being the destruction of a vital railroad bridge at Muldraugh's Hill, Kentucky, an act that halted shipments of supplies to Union forces to the south.
While Bragg's army was retreating from Kentucky, another rising Confederate cavalryman, Joe Wheeler, began appearing in official dispatches. Wheeler was only five feet four and in his mid twenties, but he was a West Pointer. Although he lacked the color and e1an of his rivals, Wheeler soon won the nickname "Fighting Joe" and the rank of major general.
Back in the East late in 1862, jeb Stuart led about 1,800 of his horsemen in a wild three day dash north into Pennsylvania, wrecking railroads and seizing horses and military equipment. On his return he completed another circuit of McClellan's army, which was still positioned along the upper Potomac after the Battle of Antietam.
During that battle a Union cavalry leader provided some evidence of the forthcoming power of Northern cavalry. He was Alfred Pleasonton, late of the 2d Dragoons, who at the outbreak of war had traveled by horseback from Utah to Washington to offer his services to the Union. Soon he would be in command of a reorganized Federal cavalry corps.
Then came springtime of 1863, midpoint of the Civil War, the year of fullest flowering for the soldiers on horseback, the year of maturation for Union cavalry. By this time both sides had found through experience what weapons and accoutrements best suited them, the methods of fighting that were most successful. The Southerners learned to travel light and live off the country; indeed, the Confederate Congress authorized ranger units that were encouraged to roam independently, raiding Union bases and supply trains for loot to sustain themselves. In northern Virginia, John S. Mosby was the most notable of the ranger leaders. In the West, M. Jeff Thompson was typical of the irregulars who fought in the border states. Thompson sometimes moved his troops on horseback, sometimes in dugout canoes.
Although most cavalrymen favored sabers at the beginning of the war, their use declined in favor of the carbine and the pistol. Records show that fewer than a thousand saber wounds were treated in Federal hospitals during four years of combat. Cavalry commanders also quickly learned to use their horses for swift mobility rather than for direct attacks, bringing their men close to the enemy and dismounting them for combat, with one man in each set of four acting as horse holder.
By 1863 several models of breech-loading carbines were available in quantity for Federal cavalrymen, although opinions differed as to the qualities of the different models. With the new Blakeslee cartridge box known as the Quickloader, a trooper could fire a dozen aimed shots a minute. Yet there were many Southerners, such as Basil Duke of Morgan's cavalry, who were arguing until long after the war in favor of their old-fashioned Enfields and Springfields, which they claimed were more accurate and of longer range than the newer Spencer or Sharp's carbines.
Among the extraordinary feats of cavalrymen on both sides during 1863 was Forrest's interception and capture of Colonel Abel Streight's entire regiment, John Morgan's great raid across the Ohio River into Indiana and Ohio, and Stuart's controversial raid just before Gettysburg, when he inflicted considerable damage upon his enemy but failed to inform Lee of his actions. On the Federal side, in the West Benjamin Grierson, a former music teacher, demonstrated that Yankee cavalry could raid as daringly and as deep behind the lines as Confederates. In a seventeen-day march through the heart of Mississippi, Grierson also demonstrated the value of cavalry in attacking vital supply lines and in drawing off enemy forces from the main battle area, in his case Vicksburg.
Soon after Major General Joseph Hooker took command of the Army of the Potomac early in 1863, he consolidated his forty cavalry regiments into three divisions. For the first time the Union Army had a mobile strike force that could out number the Confederates. A new breed of young, aggressive leaders was also coming to the fore with the cavalry corps-notably Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, John Buford, and George Custer.
A preview of what was in store for the freeroaming Confederate horsemen occurred on March 17 when Brigadier General William W. Averell challenged Fitzhugh Lee's Confederate briirade at Kelly's Ford on the Rappahannock. What formerly would have been an easy skirmish for the Virginia horsemen turned into a fierce engagement. Averell's men retired from the field, but not until they inflicted double the casualties they received. Among the dead was the Confederate hero of Fredericksburg, "the gallant John Pelham."
The real test came at Brandy Station on June 9. As customary, jeb Stuart's cavalry was to serve as a screen for Lee's army, which was preparing to invade the North, a march that would culminate in the Battle of Gettysburg. The Confederate cavalry was at its peak, five brigades led by such tested veterans as William E. "Grumble" Jones, Fitzhugh Lee, William H. "Rooney" Lee, and a rising brigadier from South Carolina, Wade Hampton. While waiting for General Lee to move out of Culpeper, Stuart decided to put on a grand review. The various squadrons performed at their glittering best before an audience of beautiful women, various civilian and military officials, as well as a number of distant watchers from Alfred Pleasonton's Union cavalry corps.
General Hooker's balloon observers had reported unusual activity along the Rappahannock, and Pleasonton was ordered to investigate. Among his officers were Buford, Kilpatrick, David McMurtrie Gregg, Alfred Duffie, and George Custer, who was then a captain.
After a careful reconnaissance, Pleasonton decided to attack Stuart by crossing one column at Beverly Ford and another at Kelly's Ford. In numbers the opponents were about equal, 10,000 horsemen in blue and 10,000 in gray. The lead units of blue columns crossed the Rappahannock at four o'clock in the morning and caught most of the Confederate camps by surprise. Some Confederates hastily retreated, some formed defense lines, some charged their attackers half-dressed and riding bareback. At Fleetwood, just east of Brandy Station, Stuart was finally able to concentrate his forces, and it was here that the greatest cavalry battle of the war was fought. By this time, delays and communication failures had collapsed command organization on both sides so that regiments, battalions, squadrons, and individuals charged and countercharged in clouds of smoke and dust. As this was cavalry against cavalry at close quarters, many a long-unused saber came into play. After three hours of combat, both sides were completely exhausted, and many men were unhorsed from the wild fighting. With the arrival of Confederate infantry, the Union regiments began withdrawing across the Rappahannock. Estimates vary as to the number of casualties, but it is safe to say that about 500 men on each side were out of combat at the end of the battle.
Brandy Station was not only the greatest cavalry battle of the war; it was the turning point for Federal cavalry. "Up to that time confessedly inferior to the Southern horsemen, they gained on this day that confidence in themselves and in their commanders which enabled them to contest so fiercely the subsequent battlefields." The man who said that was not a Union cavalryman but one of jeb Stuart's own adjutants.
Succeeding events were portentous for Confederate horsemen. In July John Morgan's raiders disintegrated during their flight across Ohio; on the twenty-sixth Morgan was captured and imprisoned. In September, after Bedford Forrest clashed with General Bragg over the conduct of the Battle of Chickamauga, he was ordered to turn his troopers over to General Wheeler. In official disgrace, but still a hero in the Western Confederacy, Forrest returned to Mississippi to recruit a new mounted command. But the Southern cavalrymen could not yet be counted out. John Mosby's rangers were very much in action in northern Virginia. Joe Wheeler made a daring circuit of Gen eral William Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland, and in October Stuart gave Kilpatrick and Custer a good scare at Buckland Mills.
As springtime of 1864 approached, with the war seemingly sunk into stalemate, Union cavalry leaders planned a daring raid into Richmond. It was a three-pronged affair, with Kilpatrick leading one column, Custer leading a diversionary attack on Stuart's camp near Charlottesville, and twenty-one-year-old Ulric Dahlgren (who had lost a leg at Gettysburg) supporting Kilpatrick with a third force. Because of bad timing, the main assault failed. Dahlgren lost his life, Kilpatrick retreated with considerable losses, and only Custer came off well by surprising Stuart's winter bivouac and destroying supplies and capturing horses.
In March Lincoln brought U. S. Grant east to command all Union armies. In early April Grant exiled Pleasonton to the West after informing Lincoln that he was bringing "the very best man in the army" to head the Union cavalry. He was Philip Henry Sheridan, and his arrival signaled the end for Confederate cavalry power in Virginia.
A further blow to the Confederacy's mounted forces occurred on May 11 when Sheridan brought 10,000 of his troopers within a few miles of Richmond, threatening the capital and destroying large quantities of Lee's already dwindling supplies. In an effort to save Richmond, jeb Stuart attacked with his 4,500 horsemen. A charge led by Custer drove the Confederates back, and while rallying his men, Stuart was mortally wounded.
In the West, however, the indomitable Forrest with his new command continued an unceasing harassment of the Federals. He led a month-long expedition through Tennessee and Kentucky, capturing Union City, Tennessee, on March 24. On April 12 he captured Fort Pillow, Tennessee, an action that is still controversial, some charging that his men massacred black and white soldiers after they surrendered. At Brice's Cross Roads, Mississippi, on June io, outnumbered more than two to one, Forrest defeated General Samuel Sturgis and sent the Federal column in a panic retreat to Memphis. In August Forrest came close to capturing the Union commanders in Memphis with a daring Sunday morning raid that caught them by surprise. "Old Bedford" closed out the year by assembling a navy of sorts. After capturing two gunboats and two transports, he combined the naval armament with his, shore artillery and shelled everything in sight along the Tennessee River.
Confederate cavalrymen seemed to have a talent for attacking gunboats from their saddles. During Fighting Joe Wheeler's January raid in 1863, his cavalrymen captured a gunboat and three transports on the Cumberland River. On June 24, 1864, Brigadier General Jo Shelby and his audacious Missourians fought three United States steamers on the White River in Arkansas, capturing and destroying the USS Queen City.
In the late autumn of that year Shelby joined Major General Sterling Price's expedition into Missouri, the final futile effort to recover that state for the Confederacy. At Westport they felt the sting of Federal cavalry led by none other than the recently deposed commander from Virginia, Alfred Pleasonton. When Price ordered a withdrawal, Pleasonton pursued, but after two heavy engagements the Union commander pulled his troopers away, allowing the beaten Confederates to escape.
Pleasonton's replacement in Virginia, the long-armed and short-legged Phil Sheridan, most likely would have shattered Price's cavalry. In the Shenandoah Valley he and Custer were racking up victories and devastating the Eastern Confederacy's breadbasket. On October 10 Sheridan made his famous twenty-mile ride from Winchester to turn the tide of battle against Jubal Early's infantry at Cedar Creek.
By this time other Federal cavalrymen had driven deep into the South. George Stoneman and James H. Wilson were operating in northern Georgia, and Judson Kilpatrick joined Sherman for the March from Atlanta to the sea. Kilpatrick tangled twice with Joe Wheeler's decimated command, but he had so little trouble on the march that he grew careless of security. In South Carolina, March 9, 1865, Wade Hampton's troopers almost captured him in bed, and he was forced to flee without his trousers.
In the meantime, John Morgan had been killed on September 4, 1864, in Tennessee, and on December 13 Stoneman defeated the remnants of his old command. Many units of the once superbly mounted Southern cavalrymen were now reduced to fighting on foot. Wade Hampton and Joe Wheeler were no match for Kilpatrick's powerful cavalry in the Battle of Bentonville in mid-March, 1865- On March 29 Fitzhugh Lee was beginning his last stand in the Appomattox campaign. On April 7 Bedford Forrest fought his last skirmish with Wilson's cavalry in Alabama.
And then on April 8, when the battered survivors of Lee's cavalry units prepared for one final charge near Appomattox, they found themselves facing a solid mass of blue-clad infantrymen, 24,000 strong. The long war practically ended there, and significantly it was a horse soldier in blue who dashed forward under a truce flag to demand immediate and unconditional surrender. The demand was not granted. George Custer had to wait for his commander, General Grant, who on the following day accepted it from General Lee.
Source: The National Historical Society's The Image of War 1861-1865, Volume IV, Fighting For Time, Article by Dee Brown
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How do the people of Brownsburg manage to keep their sympathies with Charlie Beale even if their church prohibits them from doing so? What was the role of the church in society in those days?
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The church was the social center of the community, as well as the source of moral guidance - the rules by which the community lived and the standards for good and bad behavior. Charlie fell into some interesting cracks - he exhibited both acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. this left other members of the community in a quandry: which set of rules was more important?
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It was an unfortunate time and in the rural southern countryside the life of the church was the life of the people and the ministers had great control over their populace. This was an isolated community which was so carefully brought out in Goolrick's descriptions. These were also people of limited education and background of experience so they knew only to believe what the ministers preached. It was a pleasant surprise to see how Goolrick showed the townspeople expressing their real feelings at Charlie's grave.
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I agree with Lynne. I too was pleasantly surprised to see the people of Brownsburg kind of work around the church in showing their support for Charlie. I suppose the church served to set down some kind of moral guidelines for everyone to follow. It was interesting that Sam's mom persuades Charlie to some kind of church--any church so he can integrate better into the community.
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Goolrick's book describes the "white" church as a place with lectures about hell and an emphasis on punishment, whereas the "black" church emphasized salvation and used positive reinforcement. The authority of the priest or pastor in a small community is huge. even today, I suspect. It was gratifying to see how people honored Charlie's grave anyway.
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While townspeople were clearly expected to attend church, I found it rather upsetting that the "white" church lectures were so much about sin and punishment. This was not a place to go for solace, and I was very sad when Charlie was damned as a sinner. I loved the fact that the townspeople honored his grave, even if they had to sneak out at night to do so.
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This was the one " part" of the book that really haunted me. I had so much trouble with the hypocritical viewpoints of the townspeople (both the black and the white) and the power of the "white" church.
The white hypocrisy is so sickening - I agree it was touching that they honored his grave, but what good did it do? They should have shown this compassion before the tragedy. Isn't that what Jesus preached (the Church at this time was supposed to be the New Testement, not the Old Testment of wrath and brimstone)If this had happened, Charlie, Sylvan and possibly Charlie's brother would not have died. As for the black townspeople, I know society placed pressure on them, but we are, even to this day afraid to stand up to societal norms even when we know deep down the norms are not right. They could have let Charlie find a home in their Church. Once again things might have been different.
I also find an interesting parallel to the religion in " a land more kind than home" by Wiley Cash and the tragedy caused there. The hypocritical nature of religion in that novel plays out similarly for me.
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