Short Ballot Movement Gains Attention Across Cities
An article reviews the short ballot idea led by Richard S. Childs and backed by Woodrow Wilson. It argues for reducing elective offices to those truly essential, shifting minor posts to appointment and citing Galveston Des Moines Boston Colorado Springs and citizen involvement to curb blind voting.
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Des Moines
Galveston
Woodrow Wilson
Winston Churchill
Horace B. Deming
Ben B. Lindsey
William
U’ren
William Allen White
Clinton Rogers Woodruff
Lawrence F. Abbott
Richard
Norman Hapgood
Childs
Eliot
Harvard
England
Boston
Colorado Springs
Grant Before Vicksburg
General Grant sought 12 000 to 16 000 troops for a land move to flank Vicksburg. He appealed to Lincoln after Leggett briefed Stanton and the War Department. Lincoln backed the plan, sending the needed forces, and Leggett led the first brigade into Vicksburg after surrender.
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Grant
Vicksburg
Washington
War Department
M. D. Leggett
Ohio
Stanton
General Leggett
Leggett
Cleveland
Detroit
Appomattox
Donelson
Henry
Mr. Lincoln
Fame
Little 4 Bridge Burner Sparks Civil War Heroism
A boy of about twelve helps Union soldiers burn a Confederate-guarded bridge during Sherman's advance. With a pine pitch bundle hidden on his person, he slips away after lighting the fire and returns battered but safe, earning admiration from the officer who sent him.
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Waal
Hyer Yu
Sherman
Hal
Ildy J
Poultry in His Bass Drum and a Colonel's Outcry
A wartime tale recalls a bass drummer who hid five turkeys and six chickens inside his drum to feed soldiers during forced marches. When the drums sounded for a review, the drummer confessed the poultry to the exasperated colonel, who ordered him to quit and return to quarters.
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Winterbourne
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J. H. Rockwell
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Gage Dodson CO
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