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The losses by the soldiers from Bedford were chronicled in the best-selling book The Bedford Boys by Alex Kershaw, and helped inspire the movie Saving Private Ryan. [6] The movie's director, Steven Spielberg, helped fund the memorial, including funding for the creation of the Arnold M. Spielberg Theater, in honor of his father, a World War II ...
In 1769, Smith and the Black Boys surprised Fort Bedford, freeing some prisoners being held there. [10] Later in 1769, while passing through Bedford with two companions, Smith was accosted by several men intent upon his arrest for being the leader of the Black Boys. Shots were fired, and one of Smith's companions was accidentally killed.
There were seven boys and three girls; the eldest of the sons being Nathan Bedford. All the sons grew up to be fighting men; and several were killed in the ranks of the Confederacy. There was only one of the seven, however, who turned out to be what we might really term a desperado, and that was Bill Forrest, the only man General Forrest used ...
[1] According to a handwritten history recorded by Lt. George Cowan (CSA) after the war, "The company was organized in the last days of September, 1862, and as they were mostly sons of the best citizens of Bedford and adjoining counties, and were able to mount and equip themselves, they went into the service the best armed and equipped body of ...
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The bodies of four teenage boys have been pulled from an overturned car found submerged in water, police said.. Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Henderson and Hugo Morris were feared missing after ...
The son of former Red Sox baseball star George Scott killed his eight-year-old son before taking his own life, authorities say.. Police discovered the bodies of George Scott III, 53, and Dante ...
The three Butehorn brothers of Bethpage, New York, Charles, Joseph, and Henry, were all deployed during World War II. After Charles was killed in action in France in November 1944 and Joseph was killed in action in the Pacific in May 1945, Henry, who was serving with the Army Air Forces in Italy, was ordered home by the War Department.