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Historians say the story that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., future justice of the Supreme Court, yelled, "Get down, you fool!" at the president as the bullets flew cannot be authenticated. After Gen. Robert E. Lee won a victory over Maj. Gen. John Pope here, Confederate forces seemed poised t...

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Published in:MHQ : the quarterly journal of military history 2008-09, Vol.21 (1), p.6
Main Author: Sears, Stephen W
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
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American Civil War
Civil war
Civil War, 1861-1865
Grant, Ulysses S (1822-85)
Lee, Robert E (1807-70)
Lee, Robert E. (American general)
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
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Stuart, Jeb
United States
United States history
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Summary:Historians say the story that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., future justice of the Supreme Court, yelled, "Get down, you fool!" at the president as the bullets flew cannot be authenticated. After Gen. Robert E. Lee won a victory over Maj. Gen. John Pope here, Confederate forces seemed poised to strike at Washington, just 25 miles away. MHQ contributing editor Stephen W. Sears has written several books about the American Civil War, including Gettysburg and Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam.
ISSN:1040-5992