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l&S-3, THIS WAS Meade's Federal Forces Escape By MERTON T. AKERS Unilcd Press lnlcrnalional The fall of 1863 was waning into winter when the Federal Army of the Potomac made one more attempt to come to grips with the Confederates in Vir ginia before the snow flew. Nearly five months had passed since the Union army's victory at Gettysburg without a major engagement in the East. Washington still was prodding Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, commander of the Army of the Potomac, to seek out Gen. Rob ert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and fight it. The Radi cal Republicans in Congress also were interested in the sit uation and were drumming up opposition to Meade. In early November, Lee's army lay along the Rappahan nock River west of Fredericks burg, too close to Washington for the comfort of the White House and the War Department. Meade's army was north of the river. Proposal Rejected Meade proposed to Washing ton that he move left toward Fredericksburg, Va., and strike that way toward Richmond and the flank . of the Confederates. President Lincoln and Army Commander Henry W. Halleck said no, remembering perhaps what had happened to Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside a year before when he did just that. The decision had the ef fect of pinning Meade's army in a defensive position Failing to win approval for a full-fledged offensive, Meade de- termined to regain the territory south of the Rappahannock to the Rapidan River. He moved his army Nov. 7 in two columns. One hit the Rappanhannock at Rappahan nock Station where the Orange & Alexandria railroad crossed. The other struck at Kelly's Ford a few miles to the cast. Artillery Opens About noon both Federal col umns opened artillery fire. At Kelly's Ford a Union divi sion splashed across the river and captured 300 Confederate prisoners with little loss. The Confederates threw in a second regiment to save the day but Federal artillery beat back the counter attack. At Rappahannock Station the Confcd. rales held a strong point on the north bank con nected by a pontoon bridge to Need holiday money? Get an HFC Shopper's Loan Shop now for the best buys on seasonal needs. Pay cash. Repay sensibly. Borrow confidently ' from the oldest and largest company-HFC. Cub y.u on! Ask about Credit Life Insurance on loans at group rale $100 201) iM J00 1001) IMP HOUSEHO FINANCED 128 East Main St., 2nd Floor Phone: 773-5301 Hoot! Mod. tfcrs Ural. 10 5-fii. 10 t i t. M. All HFC OFFICES OPEN SATURDAY MORNINGS UNTIl CHRISTMAS CIVIL lilJi i the opposite shore. The point was defended by one brigade. The Federals there, com manded by Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, pounded away most of the afternoon with their ar tillery. November darkness was fast coming on. "Uncle John" Sedgwick was watching and talking to Maj. Gen. Horatio Wright, his second m command. "Wright, what do you think are the chances for an assault with infantry on that position?" Sedgwick asked. "Just as you say, general," Wright replied. Brig. Gen. David A. Russell, commanding the division in po sition for the attack, was stand ing by. Sedgwick turned to him. ' "Do you think you can carry those works?" "I think I can, sir." "Go ahead and do it." With the 6th Maine and the 5th Wisconsin in front and the 5th Maine and the 121st New York in support 2.100 men in all Russell's division charged up the rocky slope toward the Confederate works. Union Victory In the dusk and battle smoke the Union skirmishers poured into the rifle pits followed by their cheering comrades. One line was captued without fir ing a shot. Federal losses were about 300 killed and wounded. They took 1,500 prisoners and all four of the Rebel guns. Bet ter yet in a soldier's eyes they captured eight Rebel battle flags. (Later Russell, wounded in the charge, would carry the flags to Washington but the ir- rascible secretary of war, Ed win M. Stanton, was "too busy" to see him, a discourtesy not unusual for the secretary. Rus sell left the flags and returned to the army to get his wounds treated.) With Union forces across the river at Kelly's Ford and Rap pahannock Station, Lee pulled his army back lo a line along Mine Run, a creek that ran roughly north and south and emptied into the Rapidan to Ihe north. The twin defeats on the river cast down the Confederates. "it is absolutely sickening," Col. Sandie Pendleton, who had served on Stonewall Jack son's staff, said, "and I feel personally disgraced . . . Oh, MONTHtY PAYMINT HANS 14 K I) p4mtl pamh fisimit ptni S 5.90 S 6.72 510,03 SI8.46 11.81 13.44 20,09 36.92 17.71 20.16 30.14 55.38 28.86 32.97 49.64 91.66 539 62.21 95.64 179.56 77.87 90.38 110,57 266.36 RMiildVi krti u ( moHMr rl of i am IJuil fltf o ialaiw Mt ttutiint SjOO. 2 iktl (art al a likntt in ttctti ef HOO btiX ntt WAR how every day is proving the value of General Jackson." Meade now decided to strike Lee's right flank on Mine Run in a move to be coordinated with the attack of Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant's army at Chatta nooga. The time was set for Nov. 24 but the weather turned bad and rain held up the expedition two days. It finally started on Nov. 2S, led by the HI Corps under Maj. Gen. William H. French. He was two hours late starting and all the army was delayed. The Rapidan had risen and not enough pontoons were available to bridge the stream. Artillery had to follow a roundabout way. Not until ihe night of Nov. 28 did Meade marshal! his troops into battle array, meantime fighting off light Rebel attacks. Lee Fortified All this delay had given Lee plenty of time to select and for tify a strong position well back of the steep west bank of Mine Run. All during the 29th skirmish ing continued as each general probed the other's lines. Meade had determined the main attack would be made by the II Corps under Maj. Gen. G.K. Warren on the far Federal left. Warren reported the Rebel lines there were thin and could be pierced. He spent the 29th moving into position and the night in personally inspecting the front. The rain had started again and it froze as it fell. Many soldiers had thrown away their overcoats and now regretted it. Pickets were changed every half hour but even then some froze to death. Just before sunrise Warren went to the front for another look before the deadline of 7 a.m. Meade had set to start the battle. What he saw in the nalc dawn sent him quickly back into his own lines. The Confederates had extended and strengthened their lines overnight. What had seemed to be a thin line now was formidable. Suicide He sent a staff officer scurry ing off to tell Meade the attack would be suicide. But it was 9 a. m. before the messenger reached the commander, who already Bad started Federal ar tillery on the right and center to tiring. Meade rode as fast as he could to Warren's corps. He looked over the ground and agreed with Warren. The at tack was called off and the ar tillery silenced. Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 went by without incident. Lee determined to strike Dec. 2 at the Federal left Warren's position. He wheeled in rein forcements during the night and when dawn came prepared to attack. But Meade's army was gone. It had retreated lo Culpeper Court House into winter quar ters. "I'm getting too old lo com mand this army," Lee said, "we never should have let those people get away." About the same time Meade learned of Grant's victory at Missionary Ridge. Tlsc contrast was loo obvious. The Radical Republicans pre pared for an investigation. Friendship Torch To Honor Kennedy MIAMI (UPI) -The Maimi City Commission voted unani mously Thursday to rename the city's famous Torch of Friend shipa symbol of goodwill with Latin American nations. The commission agreed to re christen the landmark in Bay front Park the "John F. Kenne dy Torch of Friendship" in hon or of the late President. Kennedy, who visited the park during his !3G0 campaign, hailed the torch as a "monu ment for international under standing." Princess Grace To Visit Mrs. Kennedy PH1ADELPHIA (UPI) -Princess Grace of Monaco said Sunday on her arrival here to visit her mother that she would visit the grave of President John F. Kennedy this week and call on Mrs. Kennedy. The princess, the former Grace Kelly, said her visit to the President's widow would be at the former First Lady's convenience. 1959 Chev. Vi Ton Pickup 3 Speed Heater Com. Bumper S1199 PAUL LEA MOTORS 12TH AND RIVERSIDE Author Aldous Huxley Believes World wearing Fulfillment HOLLYWOOD (UPIS A1-! dous Huxley, who succumbed j to cancer earlier this month, j left a world he felt was heading dangerously toward his erea- tion, "Brave New World Huxley, writing novel for which in 1931 the he became most widely known, set the story 600 years into the future (or "somewhere in the sixth or seventh century A. F. After Ford".) But in a 1958 interview with i a reporter, he saw the forma tion of the Brave New World in less than 200 years. Huxley himself described his prophecy in novel form as "The completely organized society, the scientific caste system, the abolition of free will by meth odical conditioning, the servi tude made acceptable by regu lar doses of chemically induced happiness, the orthodoxies : drummed in by nightly courses of sleep - teaching ..." In the 1956 interview, he said: i "I envisaged industrial regimen-: tation occurring much farther in : the future. But now, with sleep- teaching, brainwashing, hypno-j sis and conditioned reflex exper- i iments we are close to a rigid : caste system, where people are: trained for only one function." ; Next Revolution Huxley, brother of biologist Julian Huxley and grandson of Thomas Huxley, a champion of Charles Darwin's theories of ev- i olution, said further that he be-; lieved the next great revolution ; will be led by scientists and medical men. "Even now, the; earth's population is dependent: on the minds of a half-million: or so scientists and tech nicians," he said. "The society of the future would be without poverty, but also without freedom or thought an outgrowth of searching for ; absolute security," he contin ued. "Still, we cannot turn back. The reason is over - population. tarth s population has more than doubled in my 60 years of life. It's increased from slight ly more than one billion to two and a half billion." In "Brave New World Re visited," a book first published in 1958, Huxley said again She "shortest and broadest road" to the nightmare world leads through over - population, but also "this blind biological en emy of freedom" is allied wilh the forces of the advances in technology. He wrote that the progress of technology is leadiing to a cen tralization of power; that the machinery of mass production is made more efficient but at the same time more complex and expansive and so less available to the enterpriser of limited means." "As the Little Men disappear, more and more economic power comes to be wielded by fewer and fewer people," he wrote m the chapter entitled "Over - Or ganization. Huxley was hardly an anarch ist, however: , "Organization is indispensa ble; for liberty arises and has meaning only within a self - Disabled Vets To Report Incomes POIlTLANiD This year's in come reporting time begins to day for 16,400 disabled veterans and the dependents of about B.ijoo deceased veterans receiv ing VA pension in Oregon, ac cording to R. J. Novotny, man ager of the Veterans Admin istration Regional office in Port land. Enclosed with their Nov. 30 checks, all VA pension recip ients will receive tabulating cards upon which beneficiaries must report all income received during 1963 and that expected in 1904. Income means everything received including Social Se I curily payments except, of course, the VA pension pay ments themselves. I The law requires the VA to j use the reports to determine ; continued eligibility of pension 1 ers and in some cases to make adjustments on the basis of in creased or decreased outside income. Prompt and accurate report ing can prevent any hoid-up in pension payments, Novotny said. O'Loughicn Files As Democratic Delegate SALEM (UP!) -Patrick J, O'Loughrn of Adrian has filed as a delegate to next year's Democratic National Conven tion. O'Loughicn is a candi date for delegate from the state at large. He pledged to work for the election of President Lyndon Johnson. regulating community of freely cooperating individuals," he wrote. (t is too organization which he Mt would transform men and women into automata !,s ; u,o'miHHt twtn,,,, extremes of Saissez - fairs at one end of the scale and of total control at (he other," he said. What solutions did Huxley of fer? Again, in "Brave New World i Revisited" he had some sugges tions, though he expressed no great confidence that they were the solution. As examples of preventive legislation for the protection of the mind, Huxley thought it pos sible to establish legislation lim iting officials in the use of sleep teaching, legislation prohibiting the use ot sumimal prelection on television screens or publiic SECTION B MedfordK&WTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1963 Gone are the days when every horaemaker was a weather -watcher on washdays! Gone are the days of back-breaking washday drudgery - dragging; heavy wet clothes outside to a clothesline to dry ... Gone, matter of fact, is washday! With an electric clothes dryer, any day, any weather, any time Is washday . . . and it's all as easy as turning a dial! 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At the same time food production must be in creased and a world - wide pol icy pf soil and forest conserva tion must be implemented, he implored. As tor over - organization arising from increasing central ization of government, Huxley offered merely: "It is now a PAGES 1 TO WASHDAY IS A WALTZ Big Y Shopping Center, Appliance Dept. Borger' ; Ead Transfer & Furniture Home Appliance Co Johnston Stores Urton Appliance leonwd Eieilrit Montgomery Wrd & Co .'...: Piulieh 8 Glet Trowbridge Electric historical fact that the mems of production are fast becoming the monopolistic property of big uusHicss ana Dig government. Therefore, if vass belie5e in De mocracy, make arrangements to distribute property." 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