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5 unusual facts about Alexander S. Webb


Alexander S. Webb

The brigade repulsed the assault of Brig. Gen. Ambrose R. Wright's brigade of Georgians as it topped the ridge late in the afternoon, chasing the Confederates back as far as the Emmitsburg Road, where they captured about 300 men and reclaimed a Union battery.

General Webb was a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and a founder and first Commander General of the Military Order of Foreign Wars.

Alexander Webb

Alexander S. Webb (1835–1911), Major General in the American Civil War, defended the famous "Copse of Trees" during Pickett's charge at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863

General Webb

Alexander S. Webb (1835–1911), Union general in the American Civil War

Paul Philippoteaux

Philippoteaux also interviewed several survivors of the battle, including Union generals Winfield S. Hancock, Abner Doubleday, Oliver O. Howard, and Alexander S. Webb, and based his work partly on their recollections.


Alexander Heard

Alexander S. Heard, editorial director of Outside magazine and author

Alexander S. Bermange

He has written numerous musicals since leaving university, one of which, Shadowless, won two Frank Wildhorn Awards (the Audience Award and the Second Jury Award) at the Musical Festival Graz in Austria in 2007.

Alexander S. Diven

Diven was elected as a Republican to the 37th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863.

Alexander S. Foxhall

Foxhall was born to Peter Christopher Foxhall and Glenda Jill "Jill" Foxhall née Pender in 1969, the eldest of four children of that marriage, his father having a son by his first wife.

Alexander S. Gross

Rabbi Alexander S. Gross (1917 – March 10, 1980), was an American Orthodox rabbi who established the Hebrew Academy of Greater Miami, the first Jewish day school in the south.

Alexander S. Johnson

In October 1875, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant Circuit Judge of the Second U. S. Judicial Circuit.

In 1864, he was appointed United States Commissioner for the settlement of the claims of the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound Companies under the Oregon Treaty, Great Britain being represented by Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet.

Alexander S. McDill

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Alexander S. Wallace

He engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death near York, South Carolina, June 27, 1893.

Born near York, South Carolina, the son of an American colonial immigrant, McCasland Wallace (born at sea on the Atlantic Ocean to a Scots-Irish family on their way to the port of Charleston, South Carolina), Wallace received a limited schooling.

Alexander S. Wiener

In recognition of his contribution to forensic medicine he was awarded an honorary membership of the Mystery Writers of America.

Since the 1930s he co-operated with the office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City.

Alexander S. Williams

He, along with William "Big Bill" Devery and Thomas F. Byrnes, were among several senior NYPD officials implicated by the Lexow Committee during the 1890s.

Alexander Wallace

Alexander S. Wallace (1810-1893), members of House of Representatives from South Carolina

Beetroot Design Group

Clients include cultural institutions such as the Benaki Museum, the Onassis Cultural Centre and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, as well as multinational corporations such as Lidl, Microsoft, Corbis and Nestlé.

Brent W. Webb

On 1 February 2011 Webb was made academic vice president of BYU replacing John S. Tanner.

Charlotte Hudson

Hudson also appeared in the comedy sketch show Bruiser alongside the likes of Mitchell & Webb, Olivia Colman, Martin Freeman, and Matthew Holness.

Christian egalitarianism

William J. Webb, author of Slaves, Women and Homosexuals (2001)

Christian Vegetarian Association

The Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA) was founded in 1999 by Nathan Braun and Stephen H. Webb, Professor of Religion at Wabash College.

David Webb

David C. Webb (born 1928), Irish-born philanthropist and aerospace consultant

Frank J. Webb

The couple received a warm welcome from many British nobles, including Lady Noel Byron, to whom he dedicated The Garies and Their Friends, and Henry, Lord Brougham, who wrote an enthusiastic introduction.

Frank Webb

Frank J. Webb (1828–1894), African-American novelist, poet and essayist

Gahagan Mounds Site

The burial mound at the site has been excavated twice, in 1912 by Clarence Bloomfield Moore and then in 1939 by Clarence H. Webb.

Harry S. Webb

In 1933 Webb and Bernard B. Ray created Reliable Pictures Corporation with a studio at Beachwood and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

James E. Webb

Webb was played by Dan Lauria in the 1998 miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon.

James R. Webb

After providing leadership in such prominent consulting firms as Price Waterhouse, Deloitte & Touche and EDS A.T. Kearney, he became an internationally known strategy consultant.

Joseph Mackey Brown

Smith left before the end of his second term to assume the United States Senate seat that became vacant upon the death of Alexander S. Clay, and Brown ran unopposed to become Governor again for the rest of Smith's original term.

Marshall B. Webb

As the Assistant Commanding General of JSOC, Webb was involved in the operation to kill Osama bin Laden.

Moscow Country Club

The course was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., and built by Antti Peltoniemi under the guidance of the Russian government department, GlavUpDK, headed by Ivan Sergeyev and Alexander Zinovyev.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

While in Ireland the Dublin edition of the book was published by the abolitionist printer Richard D. Webb to great acclaim and Douglass would write extensively in later editions very positively about his experience in Ireland.

Newell Sanders

Sanders was sworn in during April, 1912 and served until January, 1913 when the Tennessee General Assembly elected educator William R. Webb, a Democrat, to succeed him, the process called for in the United States Constitution until the Seventeeh Amendment was ratified later in the decade.

Operation Greylord

Four United States Attorneys, Thomas P. Sullivan, Dan K. Webb, Anton R. Valukas and Fred Foreman supervised the investigations and prosecutions.

Radial axle

Radial axles were also used in locomotives designed by F.W. Webb of the London and North Western Railway, and by William Stroudley and R. J. Billinton of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway.

Robert G. Webb

Webb has over a hundred publications, to his name and specialised in southwestern US and Mexico, and in the systematics Trionychidae worldwide.

SantaLand Diaries

In 2007, writing for The New Republic, Alexander S. Heard fact-checked various aspects of Sedaris's stories, including SantaLand Diaries, and found that several aspects were exaggerated and manufactured, although Sedaris did work in Macy's during the time period represented.

Stephen Webb

Stephen P. Webb (born 1946), former Mayor of Beverly Hills, California

Susan McFadden

In 2008, McFadden recorded two songs for the CD Act One - Songs From The Musicals Of Alexander S. Bermange, an album of 20 brand new recordings by 26 West End stars, released in November 2008 on Dress Circle Records.

United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind

Specifically, Attorney General Ulysses S. Webb was very active in revoking Indian land purchases; in a bid to strengthen the Asiatic Exclusion League, he promised to prevent Indians from buying or leasing land.

Watt W. Webb

Watt W. Webb is known for his co-invention (with Winfried Denk and Jim Strickler) of Multiphoton microscopy in 1990.

Webb School of Knoxville

It was founded in 1955 by Robert Webb (1919–2005), grandson of Webb School of Bell Buckle founder Sawney Webb.


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