She won't sink or run aground
She won't turn back, she won't back down
When you find your time to finally let go
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On this day in 1861, Colonel Lew Wallace, commanding the 11th Indiana Regiment, upon learning of a Rebel force in the nearby town of Romney, Virginia, took the initiative and attacked the enemy garrison of about 500 men. The surprised Confederate force was routed them from the town.
The subject of my next book, pioneering journalist Wallace Terry, covered the civil rights movement for the "Washington Post," including Medgar Evers fight for equality in Mississippi as an National Association for the Advancement of Colored People official.
After having dinner one night and returning to Evers home for coffee, the activist asked the journalist what it might take to make things change in Mississippi. With more than a little cynicism, Terry had answered: “Medgar, I think it’s going to take a hundred big funerals.”
Wallace found success as a soldier, writing his wife Susan that his “greatest personal satisfaction was due to the discovery of the fact that in the confusion and feverish excitement of real battle, I could think.”
Wallace drew the attention of the media, with a journalist from "Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper" reporting that he was “loved by his officers and by his men to a point of devotion; and it is little to say that they would follow wherever he led, not matter what lay before them.”
