Seven Days Before Richmond Battle Loomed in 1862
The June 25 1862 sighting near Mechanicsville Va shows Union pickets watching Richmond from across the Chickahominy River as Lee challenges McClellan in the Seven Days battles. Lee's tactical moves and Jackson's delays shape a costly clash that preserves Richmond for the moment and begins Lee's rise.
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Chickahominy River
Mechanicsville
McClellan
Army of the Potomac
Jackson
Oak Grove
Richmond
Edwin M. Stanton
Washington
Lee
Chickahominy
Shenandoah Valley
John B. Hood
Texas
Porter
Harrison
James River
Savage
Richmond and
York River
White Oak Swamp
Stonewall
Malvern Hill
Daniel H. Hill
Harbison
the James
Peninsula
Lincoln
More Sites Are Offered Air Force in North Carolina
North Carolina across nine possible bombing range sites offered by state officials after rejecting Bladen Lakes State Park. Bowles urged FAA air lane adjustments, noting several sites nearly meet Air Force needs while agreeing to survey sites in South Carolina if requested.
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Air Force
Goldsboro
N. C
North Carolina
South Carolina
Hargrove Bowles
State Conservation and Development Board
J. H. Moore
Tactical Air Command
Langley Field
Lake Mattamuskeet
Seymour Johnson Afb
Bowles
Bladen Lakes State Park
Gen. Moore
Air One
FAA
Airport Protest Flares Over Regional North Carolina Airport
Rocky Mount leaders protested the Pitt County-Greenville Airport Commission s request to the Civil Aeronautics Board for an investigation into a regional airport for Eastern North Carolina The CAB had denied a reconsideration petition but may treat the matter as a separate case Governor Sanford s letter supported the probe while Rocky Mount said Greenville blocked progress Other communities Wilson Goldsboro and Kinston favored CAB s denial of Greenville s petition The piece ends with a lumber use trivia: the average American uses four times as much lumber as an Englishman, three times as a Frenchman and slightly more than a Russian.
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Rocky Mount
Pitt County-Greenville
Pitt County Commission
Terry Sanford
Rocky Mount Airport Commission
William B. Harrison
Sanford
Greenville
Harrison
Rocky Mount Group
North Carolina
CAB
Wilson
Goldsboro
Kinston
Communist guerrillas promise not to harm U S missionary
In Oarville Ohio an Associated Press report notes that communist guerrillas who kidnapped Dr. Eleanor Ardel Vietti 35 of Houston Texas and two missionary coworkers on May 30 in South Viet Nam promised they would not harm the captives.
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Oarville, Ohio
Eleanor Ardel Vietti
Houston
Tex
South Viet Nam
Shel
Judy Wells
Wyandotte
Mich
Ban Me Thuot
Wash
Christian and Missionary Alliance Church
Saigon
Miss Wells
Vietti
President Kennedy Named in World Health Trial
An Italian magistrate ordered President Kennedy Premier Khrushchev and President De Gaulle to stand trial on a private complaint that nuclear tests threaten global health. The suit also names Soviet President Brezhnev and seeks damages to the Committee for the Defense of Humanity. Trial set for December 4 in civil court, in absentia.
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Genoa
Italy
Kennedy
Khrushchev
de Gaulle
Leonid Brezhnev
Nino Musiio Sale
Musio Sale
Committee For the Defense of Humanity
Sale
Brezhnev
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Tom Henshaw
UP Newsfeatures
North America
George B. McClellan
Northern
Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Ambrose P. Hill
Fitz John Porter
Gaines’ Mill
Confederacy
Ulysses S. Grant
Gaines Mill
Seven Pines
Glendale
Golding
Savages Station
Union Advance
Harrison's Landing
UNION
Rocky Mount, N.C
Aries
Ruth Wilting
Cleveland
Gerber
Dan
Mitchell
Betty
Lapa
Fklp
Ward St
N. Wrenn
Rexair Sales & Service
Thomasville
Carolina
N.C
Senate
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Afl-Cio Junion
American Guild of Variety Artists
AGVA
Justice Department
Internal Revenue Service
Labor Department
Afl-Cio
AGWA
Fedders
Air
Bedford Sales CO
N. Wrenn St
Piedmont
West Washington
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