January 15. 2007


As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!
Henry David Thoreau



Iceman's grandson
Now full grown
Has cooling system
All his own
He uses
Burma Shave
1942


Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker





ABRAHAM LINCOLN
  • Feb 25, 1863 - Signs a Bill creating a national banking system.
  • March 3, 1863 - Signs an Act introducing military conscription.
  • May 1-4, 1863 - A Union defeat at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is mortally wounded. Hooker retreats. Union losses are 17,000 killed, wounded and missing. The Confederates, 13, 000.
  • June 28, 1863 - The president appoints George G. Meade as commander of the Army of the Potomac, replacing Hooker.
  • July 3, 1863 - Confederate defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg.

    See photographs taken just after the Battle

  • July 4, 1863 - Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi, is captured by the Gen. Grant and the Army of the West.
  • July 13, 1863 - Writes a message to Grant.
  • July 14, 1863 - Writes an undelivered letter to Meade complaining about his failure to capture Lee.
  • July 30, 1863 - Issues an Order of Retaliation.
    1863 portrait by Brady

    • THE HISTORY PLACE


    And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
    Abraham Lincoln



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover was one of two presidents to live past his 90th birthday.
    Herbert Hoover 1929-1933



    Metal or bone I may be, many teeth I have and always bared, yet my bite harms no one and ladies delight in my touch.

    What am I?



    "Jose DeLeon on his career has seventy-three wins and one-hundred and five rbi's."



    The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue.
    1736


    He was a wise man who invented beer.
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