Shiloh Defenses Hold as Union Word Tomorrow’s Attack Looms
April 1862 at Shiloh Chapel in southwest Tennessee sets the stage for the Battle of Shiloh. Union forces under Grant and Buell prepare to strike at Corinth as Confederate generals Johnston and Beauregard press a bold left flank. Prentiss and his men refuse to yield a sunken road as the hornet’s nest holds under heavy fire.
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Tennessee
Shiloh Chapel
Army of the Tennessee
Ulysses S. Grant
North American
Shiloh
Don Carlos Buell
Army of the
Ohio
Corinth
Miss
J. J. Appler
53Rd Ohio
William T. Sherman
Sherman
Grant
Balt
Benjamin M. Prentiss
Johnston
Lew Wallace
Buell
Army of the Ohio
Nashville
Prentiss
Pittsburg
Beauregard
Leander Stillwell
61St
Illinois
36Th
Indiana
North Carolina Negro colleges face funding and teaching gaps
North Carolina's Negro colleges face weak faculties, underfunded salaries, and unprepared students. President Rudolph Jones cites entering illiteracy, while Dr. William Archie urges hiring whites too and extensive remedial instruction. Officials plan targeted faculty hiring and yearlong remedial programs if funds and community support arrive.
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Rudolph Jones
Fayetteville State Teachers College
Terry Sanford
William Archie
State Board of Higher Education
Archie
Jones
Fayetteville State
Kenneth Williams
Winston-Salem Teachers College
Raleigh
North Carolina College
Durham
Duke University
University of North Carolina
North Carolina A&t
Blackwell
ADA Aims and Critics Shape Kennedy Support Debate
ADA leadership weighs Kennedy's liberal record and postures on civil rights. The article notes mixed praise and critique from ADA figures, patterns of activity, and the group’s international and domestic policy stances, including opposition to McCarthy era actions and Nixon.
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Kennedy
ADA
House
Senate
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Eleanor
Congress
United Nations
U.N
Cuba
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
Albert Rains
D-Ala
Richard Bolling
D-Mo
House Committee On UN
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Jerry Voorhis
Helen Gahagan Douglas
California
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman
Eisenhower
Schlesinger
Jumpers Train For Dangerous Job At McChord Base
Elite Air Force Combat Control Teams train at McChord and Donaldson AFBs to guide assault landings. Each 14 man unit must include parachute qualified, highly capable specialists. missions risk life and require stealth, speed, and technical skill.
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Mcchord Air Force Base
Wash
Military Air Transport Service
MATS
CCT
Army
Fort Benning
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Associated Press
Tennessee River
Owl Creek
Sumter
Bull Run
Leonidas Polk
Green Men
William J. Hardee
W.hl. Wallace
Hurlbut
Pittsburg Landing
Mar
Iunion
Negro Colleges
South
I. E. Ready
State Department of Public Instruction
Winfield Blackwell
Nedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Samuel H. Beer
Beer
Kenneth Batchelor
Batchelor
Williams
Roosevelt
McCarthy
Joseph L. Rauh Jr
Washington
Administration
ADA World
The
World
Europe
Germany
China
McChord Drop
William Strickland
Tucson
Ariz
Charles L. Jones
Midland
Korea
Strickland
Air Force
Army Parachute School
Leslie Hall JR
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