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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD. OREGON MONDAY. MAT 7. 1982 PS: TSTS t WAS 'i A CKftt WAR! 4,037 Visit Museum in April; 572 Are Students Confederate General's DhiW . By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent John Bankhead Magruder had delighted in amateur the atricals when he was a garri son officer in the "Old Army" before the Civil War. With his play acting he combined the qualities of a good host he set a good ta ble and he knew his wines. All this won mm the title of "Prince John.". But he never put on an amateur show which matched the professional act he staged at Yorktown, Va., in April and the early part of May 1862. This was "Prince John's" day in the sun and his acting was so good that it brought from one of the better critics on the scene Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston the "rave review" that "this judi cious course saved Rich mond." Testy old General Johnston, Magruder's com mander, was not one to be stow so generous an accolade lightly. Ma). Gen. George B. Mc Clellan had landed about 100, 000 Union troops at Fort Mon roe, Va., by the first days of April. The peninsula lay (head, a narrow neck of land with Richmond, Va., the Con- NEED MORE ENERGY? 25 More Protein Drink Hi -Energy milk You Can Taste the Difference Only ARDEN Has It At Your Store! Than contained bl regular milk federate capital, about 75 air line miles away and Rich mond was the goal the North was clamoring to be taken. First Target McClellan started his army up the peninsula on April 4. The first target was York town, Va., on the York river where it flows into Chesa peake Bay. The Army of the Potomac came to a dead halt the first day when it ran into a 10-mile long entrenched line running across the peninsula nearly to the James river on the left. To McClellan, it appeared to be a formidable line. Big guns poked their noses from it at frequent intervals. Much activity behind the lines could be observed from the ground and verified from an observa tion balloon. Obviously here was a situa tion calling for siege, bom bardment and then a grand assault when the line was breached. McClellan promptly tele graphed Washington for heav ier artillery and more troops. His intelligence, which came from Detective Allan Pinker ton, was that 80,000 Confed erates manned the line. Lincoln's Message President Lincoln, skepti cal, ordered the guns and the troops sent but on April 6 he wired McClellan that "I think you better break the enemy line from Yorktown to the Warwick river at once." McClellan ignored the tele, gram and went about prepar ing for the siege. Magruder, a major general, now staged his best produc tion. He kept marching his men around where they could be observed by the Union forces and counted many times. Bugles blew up and down the line, indicating closely positioned forces. Campfires dotted the land scape. Magruder gave the im pression that he confidently awaited attack. "Little Mac" believed it. Actually, at the start, Ma gruder had about 15,000 men not the 50,000 McClellan gave him credit for. Most of the "guns" that awed the Federals were "Quaker guns" peeled logs painted black, the same kind Johnston had used at Manassas to fool McClellan before. Magruder's tricks worked all through April while John ston hurried troops into the peninsula. Civil War history contains no account in which r.i .l-iiiir.iiiii.u .1 .1 j.i i i l J .wl j n J iniiyiiiiiiJkMiWMiiwiiMiiiH gm CI I 62 WAYS BETTER-THAN-EVER! In addition to all the famous Greyhound Scenicruiser Serv ice features including... fully equipped restrooms, pano ramic picture windows, air conditioning and fully reclining contour seats... the great dual level SUPER SCENICRUISER has 62 advanced and improved features like: Better-than-ever brakes. ..better-than-ever dicsel engine... better-than-ever air conditioning... better-than-ever shock absorbers... better-than-ever lighting and decor. 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The armies fought the bat tle of Williamsburg on May 5-6, 1862, as a sort of curtain raiser to the maneuvers which would be called the Peninsu lar campaign. The battle, fought as a de laying action by the Confed erates while their army made its way up the peninsula, hinged on an engagement on the Federal right where Brig. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock commanded. It was his first combat of the Civil War as well as the first for many of his men. There was a gap be tween his troops and other Union forces. Seeing the gap, the Confederates under Ma) Gen. James Longstreet and Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill attacked. Mad Flna Picture Thomas W. Hyde of the 7th Maine Volunteers and under fire for the first time, de scribed the attack: . . . on the Confederates came, and a fine picture of a charge they made. They were at the double quick, and were coming over a ploughed field, diagonally across our front . . They could not see us as we lay flat on the ground. From my place on the left of the regiment, I saw General Han cock, bareheaded, alone, a magnificent figure; and with a voice hoarse with shouting he gave us the order, 'For ward, Charger The papers had it that he said, Charge, gentlemen, charge,' but he was more emphatic than that; the air was blue all around him. "Well, we started and the long line of sabre bayonets came down together as if one man swayed them as we crossed the crest, and with a roar of cheers the 7th Maine dashed on . . .the foe, breath less from their long tug over the heavy ground, seemed i-o dissolve all at once into a qui vering and disintegrating mass, and to scatter in all di rections. Upon this we halted and opened fire, and the view of it through the smoke was pitiful. They were falling everywhere; white handker chiefs were held up in token of surrender , . . We gathered in .some 300 prisoners before dark. Then the rain came, though there is nothing espe cially remarkable about that, for it was always coming down . . ." McClellan came by and c o m p 1 i m e n ted Hancock's troops and telegraphed Wash ington that "Hancock was su perb." From then on this "tall, soldierly man with the light brown hair and a heavy mili tary jaw . . . who always has a clean white shirt . . ." was "Hancock the Superb." The Confederate rear guard, having delayed the Union army long enough for John ston fo move his army and trains out of danger, with drew. "Little Mac" now wheeled his army into line and started up the peninsula toward Rich mond on "sand y, year- around" roads his Intelligence officers had reported but which by now were hub deep in sticky mud. 5th and Bortlett Phone SP 2-2202 (1 JBli1 0 IhMI ITS SUCH Ik PLEASURE TO TAKE THIS 8US...AND IEAYE THE DRIVING TO US! Jacksonville - The Jackson' ville museum recorded the largest April attendance in its history last month, according to Miss Mary Hanley, curator. Attendance for April was 4,037, an increase of 360 over April, 1961. Accumulative at tendance since July 10, 1950, to May 1, 1962, is 463,355. Guests registered from 33 states and Canada, Norway, Sweden and Germany. A total of 572 students and their teachers from Hedrick and McLoughlin Junior High schools, from the eighth grades of Eagle Point and Kerby and the sixth grades of Jackson school, Medford, fourth grades from Gold Hill and Tri-City, Douglas county, and the third grades of Wil son school, Medford, the Walker school, Ashland, and the Jacksonville and Kerby schools, visited the museum. Number of Students Since the beginning of the current school year in Septem ber, 1,745 pupils have been conducted through the mu seum. Other groups visiting in April were Bluebirds, Girl Scout Troop 174, Medford, members of the Oregon Gold Star Mothers, and the Odd Fellows Historical Trek, both in convention in Medford, and 23 members of Alpha Zeta Theta Rho, Roseburg. Gifts and loans presented during April were from M. A. Kusler, Mrs. L. D. Inskegp, Mrs. R. C. Housel, Bruce T3. Martin, Herb Grey, Mrs. Louise Isaacs, Henry H. Prings and Sam Van Dyke, all of Medford; Mrs. C. C. Judges Discuss New Legislation Proposed legislation clari fying the statutes relating to preliminary hearings was discussed at a meeting of the Oregon District Judges' asso ciation in Eugene recently, ac cording to District Court Judge L. L. Sawyer. Judge Hayes, Douglas coun ty, commented on the propos ed legislation. Judge Alder son, Lane county, presented a survey of court rules used by the various district courts. During the session a legis lative committee was estab lished with Judge Jenkins, Washington county, appoint ed chairman. Judge Thalhofer, Deschutes county, president of the asso ciation, commented that the efforts of the association's study committee can result in greater court efficiency and can affect economies in the operation of the various dis trict courts. Thompson, Central Point; G. C. Nicewood, Jacksonville; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kimmell and Mrs. Larkin Grubb, Ash land;, Milo Claughton, Camas Valley; W. B. Garrett, Glen dale, and V, G. Barnthouse, Ashland. PLANS FRENCH VISIT London - (UPD - Trime Min ister Harold Macmillan has accepted an invitation to vis it French President Charles de Gaulle next month, it was announced Sunday. Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With More Comfort FASTEETH, pleasant alkaline (non-acid) powder, holda false teeth more firmly .To eat and talk In more comfort. Just sprinkle a little rAS TEETH on your platea. No gummy, gooey, paaty taste or feeling. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Oat FASTEETH at ny drug counter. 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