On December 25, 1871, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell ( 1855 – 1884 ), whom he had met two months earlier ; she was an employee at one of his shops.

Frank Stilwell had just arrived in Bisbee with his livery stable partner, Pete Spence, when the two were arrested by Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp for the holdup.

Wyatt said in his deposition afterward that he had been temporarily acting as city marshal for Virgil the week before while Virgil was in Tucson for the Pete Spence and Frank Stilwell trial.

During the coroner ’ s inquest on Morgan's murder, Pete Spence's wife Marietta Duarte testified that her husband, Frank Stilwell, Frederick Bode, Florentino " Indian Charlie " Cruz, and an unnamed half-breed Indian had turned up at her home an hour after the shooting, and that Spence threatened violence if she told what she knew.

Chennault, who, unlike Joseph Stilwell, had a high opinion of Chiang Kai-shek, advocated international support for Asian anti-communist movements.

George Marshall acknowledged he had given Stilwell " one of the most difficult " assignments of any theater commander.

Prior to this last year, Stilwell had performed meticulously in his classes, and had participated actively in football ( as quarterback ) and track.

While the Belt Railway was a success, Stilwell had a much bigger dream.

The initial idea was that as General Stilwell would be commanding several Chinese divisions which advancing from Ledo in India to Myitkyina in Burma to cover the construction of the Ledo Road and had loose control over the large but amorphous Chinese forces attacking out of Yunnan province from the East, he would be commanding a large army.

Many of the land command problems in South East Asia had been relieved when General Stilwell was recalled to Washington on October 19, at the behest of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.

Wyatt and his deputies had initially planned to travel only as far as Benson, but when they learned that Stilwell and others were looking for Virgil, they remained with Virgil and Allie through to Tucson.

Clanton gave an interview afterward to the newspapers in which he claimed that he and Stilwell had been in Tucson to respond to a federal charges about interfering with a U. S. mail carrier, stemming from his alleged involvement in robbing the Sandy Bob line of the Bisbee stage on September 8, 1881.

Clanton said that they had heard that the Earps were coming via the train and they had plans to kill Stilwell.

Although the 5307th's three battalions were equivalent to a regimental-size unit, its lack of organic heavy weapons support meant the force had a combat power less than that of a single regular American infantry battalion, a fact that General Stilwell and his NCAC staff did not always appreciate.

In April, the Marauders were ordered by General Stilwell to take up a blocking position at Nhpum Ga and hold it against Japanese attacks, a conventional defensive action for which the unit had not been equipped.

Present at the conference were Chiang Kai-shek ; his wife, Madame Chiang ; Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of all U. S. forces in the China Burma India Theater ; and Colonel Clayton L. Bissell, who had arrived in early March.

Followed by Ike Clanton and Frank Stilwell, Wyatt sees that his family leaves safely, and then surprises the assassins who had come to kill them.

Stilwell had first been posted to China as Chief of Staff to Chiang Kai-Shek.

Under a general less gifted than Slim this could have caused serious problems, if Slim had not been able to command Stilwell at an operational level without disagreement ( which given Stilwell's proven track record was more than likely ).

Stilwell thus had four different jobs to perform, which required him to be in different places at once.

Gavin himself had this to say about Stilwell and his methods: " He was a superb officer in that position, hard and tough worker, and he demanded much, always insisting that anything you ask the troops to do, you must be able to do yourself.

At a meeting to solve the problem of command, Stilwell, under intense pressure from the Admiral Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Commander of SEAC, astonished everyone by saying " I am prepared to come under General Slim's commanding Fourteenth Army operational control until I get to Kamaing ".

Major General Roy Geiger assumed command and led the Tenth Army until relieved by General Joseph Stilwell on 23 June.

Geiger led the Tenth Army until relieved by General Joseph Stilwell.

At a meeting to sort out the operational chain of command for the three fronts in Burma, Stilwell astonished everyone by saying " I am prepared to come under General Slim's operational control until I get to Kamaing ".

It was not until late 1944 that the land forces chain of command was clarified, after Stilwell was recalled to Washington.

Eventually at a SEAC meeting to sort out the chain of command for NCAC, Stilwell astonished everyone by saying " I am prepared to come under General Slim's operational control until I get to Kamaing ".

Not until late 1944, after Stilwell was recalled to Washington, was the chain of command clarified.

" The Nobel committee had waited patiently for experimental confirmation of special relativity ; however none was forthcoming until the time dilation experiments of Ives and Stilwell ( 1938 ), ( 1941 ) and Rossi and Hall ( 1941 ).

He served under Stilwell until the general's recall from China in the fall of 1944.

Eichelberger was promoted to brigadier general in October 1940, and the next month received orders to become deputy division commander of the 7th Infantry Division under Stilwell.

It would have been logical for the Army Group to have the American-led Northern Combat Area Command, under General Joseph Stilwell, under its control also, so that the whole front in Burma would have been under a single commander.

Stilwell may have stumbled or been wounded, allowing Wyatt to reach him.

This effect, called time dilation, has been confirmed in many tests of special relativity, such as the Ives – Stilwell experiment and time dilation of moving particles.

* February 25, 1942 Stilwell arrived in India by which time Singapore and Burma had both been invaded by the Japanese Army.

Military operations in China against the Japanese had been severely hampered by a lack of cooperation, bordering upon personal enmity, between Stilwell and Chiang.

General Joseph W. Stilwell has probably been the 50th recipient.

Many of these, such as Herbert E. Ives ( who, along with G. R. Stilwell, performed the first experimental confirmation of time dilation ) have been motivated by the belief that special relativity is logically inconsistent, and so some other conceptual framework is needed to reconcile the relativistic phenomena.

" Since then, it has been frequented by a number of famous visitors, including Tom Watson ( the 8 time major golf champion is a native of Kansas City and currently lives in Stilwell, Kansas ), Steven Spielberg, Bryant Gumbel, Jimmy Carter, Jack Nicholson, James Spader, and in 2008 by Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin, as well as barbecue aficionados.

Admiral Lord Mountbatten, the supreme Allied commander of the South East Asia Command ( SEAC ), was persuaded by Stilwell, deputy supreme Allied commander, that they should serve under the Northern Combat Area Command ( NCAC ).

The American General Joseph Stilwell was the first deputy supreme Allied commander, as well as heading the US China Burma India Theater ( CBI ) command.

The American General Joseph Stilwell was the first deputy supreme Allied commander.

As SEAC's deputy leader, Stilwell was Giffard's superior, but as operational commander of NCAC, Giffard was Stilwell's superior.