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Porter's and V
When massed Confederate artillery devastated a Union assault by Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter's V Corps, Longstreet's wing of 25, 000 men in five divisions counterattacked in the largest, simultaneous mass assault of the war.
Gen. Fitz John Porter's V Corps extended north to protect the right flank of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Union Army of the Potomac.
Gen. Fitz John Porter's V Corps, which occupied defensive works behind Beaver Dam Creek.
Gen. Fitz John Porter's V Corps had established a strong defensive line behind Boatswain's Swamp.
Lee attacked Porter's V Corps north of the Chickahominy, while the bulk of the Union Army was relatively unoccupied south of the river.
Gen. Charles Griffin sent 2, 000 infantry and sharpshooters from Maj. Gen. Fitz-John Porter's V Corps across the Potomac River at Boteler's Ford.
1st Division commander George Morrell also lost his post because he testified on Porter's behalf at the court martial hearings ( the War Department for a long time after the Porter trial was reluctant to promote officers in the V Corps )
But this aggregate was maintained only briefly, as Porter's Division was taken away soon after to form part of the newly organized V Corps.
During the Maryland Campaign and the Battle of Antietam, recently promoted to lieutenant colonel, he served as chief of staff in Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter's V Corps.

Porter's and Corps
Gen. George W. Morell's division of Porter's Corps on the extreme left, which occupied the geographically advantageous ground on the northwestern slopes of the hill.
It was created by merging Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter's 3rd Division of the III Corps with Maj. Gen. George Sykes's division of U. S. Regular troops, formerly in the Reserve.
August 29, noon ; Longstreet's Corps arrives ; Porter's Corps stops and does not engage

Porter's and held
Classes at Porter's are held Monday through Friday, although Wednesday is a half day.
He was held at the Porter's Lodge of Whitehall Palace.

Porter's and for
Overnight, for one thing, Porter's film multiplied the standard running time of movies by ten.
The relative sophistication of this piece was not followed up for some time, with subsequent works in animation being limited to short, two or three frame effects, such as appeared in Edwin Porter's 1902 short " Fun in a Bakery Shop ", where a lump of dough was made to smile over the course of a three-frame sequence.
Charles Porter's photograph of firefighter Chris Fields holding the dying infant Baylee Almon won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1996.
He caught a lucky break in 1966 when producer Daniel Melnick needed a writer and director to adapt Katherine Anne Porter's short novel Noon Wine for television.
Thompson's attribution of the Long Rede to her grandmother has been disputed, since Adriana Porter died in 1946, well before Gerald Gardner published The Old Laws, and no evidence for Porter's authorship exists other than Thompson's word.
1, 479 votes were cast for Peter Buell Porter – against Clinton's 43, 310 – because the Tammany organization, which fiercely hated Clinton, had printed ballots with Porter's name and distributed among the Tammany followers in New York City.
It has nevertheless been adapted numerous times for stage, screen, opera, and musical theatre ; perhaps the most famous adaptations being Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate and the 1967 film version of the original play, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Free of the brother-sister constraints of the former pairing and with a new partner ( Claire Luce ), he created a romantic partnered dance to Cole Porter's " Night and Day ", which had been written for Gay Divorce.
" A different side of Monk is revealed in Lewis Porter's biography, John Coltrane: His Life and Music ; Coltrane states: " Monk is exactly the opposite of Miles: he talks about music all the time, and he wants so much for you to understand that if, by chance, you ask him something, he'll spend hours if necessary to explain it to you.
Rarebit Fiend has been the inspiration for a number of films, including Edwin S. Porter's live-action Dream of the Rarebit Fiend in 1906, as well as four pioneering animated films by McCay himself: How a Mosquito Operates in 1912, and 1921's Bug Vaudeville, The Pet and The Flying House.
David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $ 100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay.
Miss Porter's School, an exclusive college preparatory school for girls, is in Farmington.
In the aftermath of the Super Bowl win, Port Allen first jokingly renamed the city " Porter Allen " for a day in Porter's honor, then later named a street after him.
Porter's pardon message placed the blame for the riot on the abolitionist speaker.
From 17 September 2012 for 5 days, special red button episodes aired after the regular show, focusing on the conclusion of the Dr. Harrison Kellor storyline, exploring Dr Elaine Cassidy and her dealing with Harrison's change of plea for Lauren Porter's murder.
During 1921, Wiggin and her sister Nora Archibald Smith edited an edition of Jane Porter's 1809 novel of William Wallace, The Scottish Chiefs, for the Scribner's Illustrated Classics series, which was illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.
Vanderbilt attended the Greenvale School in Long Island, Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut and then the Wheeler School in Providence, Rhode Island, as well as the Art Students League in New York City, developing the artistic talent for which she would become increasingly known in her career.
Noah Porter, Jr. was the son of Noah Porter, one of the first ministers of First Church of Christ, Congregational 1652 in Farmington, Connecticut, and was the older brother of Sarah Porter, founder of Miss Porter's School, a college preparatory school for girls.
Johnson composed many hit tunes in his work for the musical theatre, including " Charleston " ( which debuted in his Broadway show Runnin ' Wild in 1923, although by some accounts Johnson had written it years earlier, and which became one of the most popular songs of the " Roaring Twenties "), " If I Could Be With You ( One Hour Tonight )", " You've Got to Be Modernistic ", " Don't Cry, Baby ", " Keep off the Grass ", " Old Fashioned Love ", " A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid ", " Carolina Shout ", and " Snowy Morning Blues ".
In Mrs. Porter's New Southern Cookery Book, and Companion for Frugal and Economical, published in 1871 by M. E. Porter, has a recipe for Snow-drift Cake.
In the report he was depicted as indecisive, uncommunicative, and inept, repeatedly failing to answer Porter's requests for information, failing to forward intelligence of Longstreet's positioning to Pope, and neglecting to take command of the left wing of the Union Army as was his duty under the Articles of War.
Porter's five forces analysis is a framework for industry analysis and business strategy development formed by Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School in 1979.
Also in 2005, Hall appeared on the West End stage playing Mother Lord in the London revival of Cole Porter's High Society, and also provided the voice for Sister Penelope in the controversial British cartoon Popetown.

Porter's and Confederate
On 29 April 1863, as Acting Rear Admiral David D. Porter's flotilla was bombarding the Confederate Batteries at Grand Gulf, his flagship, USS Benton, became unmanageable and was caught under heavy fire in a position where she could neither steer nor reply to the enemy guns.
Porter's objective was to deal with a Confederate force near Hanover Court House, which threatened the avenue of approach for Union reinforcements that were marching south from Fredericksburg.

Porter's and manner
The song involves alternations of D major and D minor in a similar manner to Cole Porter's alternations of C minor and C major in Night and Day.

Porter's and first
His first Broadway assignment, in November 1938, was as a dancer in Cole Porter's Leave It to Me!
In the same year, Waits contributed a cover of Cole Porter's " It's All Right with Me " to Red Hot + Blue, the first in the series of compilation albums from the Red Hot Organization — one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business — which sold over a million copies worldwide.
Porter's father-in-law posted bail to keep Porter out of jail, but the day before Porter was due to stand trial on July 7, 1896, he fled, first to New Orleans and later to Honduras.
His first post-Ginger dance partner was the redoubtable Eleanor Powell — considered the finest female tap-dancer of her generation — in Broadway Melody of 1940 where they performed a celebrated extended dance routine to Cole Porter's " Begin the Beguine ".
Still from Edwin S. Porter's 1903 version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was one of the first full-length movies.
" Hold On, I'm Comin " was also the first recording on which Moore took lead on the first verse and the deeper, rougher voiced Prater was given the response role and second verse at Hayes and Porter's suggestion.
On March 7, 2010, the first half of the Porter's new terminal opened.
The company's first attempt was Todd Porter's Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3.
Maw was first seen being played in 1511 and the earliest written rules of 1576, the incomplete " Groom Porter's lawes at Mawe ," may have originated from Scotland.
Another prominent line in the poem, " In depraved May, dogwood and chestnut, flowering judas / To be eaten, to be divided, to be drunk ," is the origin of the title of Katherine Anne Porter's first collection of short stories, Flowering Judas and Other Stories ( 1930 ).
Team Bigfoot ended up winning 24 events that season and took the 1990 TNT points championship over Greg Holbrook in Gary Cook's Equalizer and Gary Porter's Carolina Crusher, the first racing championship for the Bigfoot team.
* Photos of the first edition of Porter's Pulitzer Prize winning book
The first cast album recorded as an LP was Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, which was a big hit on records and was followed by the blockbuster Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.
Porter's first action in the Pacific was the capture of the Peruvian vessel Nereyda, and the releases of the captured American whalers on board.
As he is about to die, Porter's life flashes before him in the form of a musical production staged by the archangel Gabriel in the Indiana theater where the composer first performed on stage.
The first station, built in 1843-45, was called Porter's Station.
Porter's first single " Awake in a Dream " is the best selling debut single for a Canadian artist to date and has been certified 8x Platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association.
Porter's first single " Awake in a Dream " was released on October 5, 2004 and debuted at number 1.
Porter's first move was towards Port Moresby — to higher ground at Ioribiwa.
She studied opera at Juilliard during the latter half of 1941 while performing in her first Broadway musical, Cole Porter's Let's Face It !, with Danny Kaye and Eve Arden.

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