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Everitt sent a ball over the left field wall to score two and
Sartori got a hit in his first collegiate at bat that brought in NU’s 12th run of the day.
Cade Povich ended his day after seven shutout innings and only allowing two hits. The junior struck out five Wildcats and walked zero.
Emmett Olson took the mound in the eighth inning and gave up just one hit for no runs. In the ninth inning
Braxton Bragg took over and struggled to put the game away. The sophomore gave up three hits and walked two batters which scored two runs.
Good morning, it’s Friday, May 14, 2021, the day of the week when I reprise quotations intended to be uplifting or educational. Today’s, as promised, comes from Abraham Lincoln but during the Mexican-American War. Rarely discussed in American politics today, that conflict was a momentous event in the evolution of the two countries.
It cost Mexico the potential wealth of California and most of what we know as the American Southwest, as well as much prestige and self-confidence not to mention the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians. On the other side of the border, the United States gained vast new lands, a sense of its own power, and a new generation of battle-tested veterans, including two future presidents, Franklin Pierce and Zachary Taylor.
Who is John Galt?
âThe American people may oppose the nationâs present course, but by themselves the people cannot change it. They may oppose the taxes and the bureaucrats, but these are merely consequences, which cannot be significantly cut back so long as their source is untouched. The people may curse âbig governmentâ in general â but to no avail if the pressure groups among them, following the logic of a mixed economy, continue to be fruitful and to multiply. The people may âswing to the right,â but it is futile, if the leaders of the right are swinging to their own⦠brand of statism. The country may throw the rascals out, but it means nothing if the next administration is made of neo-rascals from the other partyâ¦â
The newly appointed general-in-chief of Union armies, Ulysses S. Grant, decided to make his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac rather than in an office in Washington, D.C. Leaving George G. Meade in charge of the details, Grant sent the army not after Richmond, as his predecessors had done, but after Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. The resulting Overland Campaign in the spring of 1864 led to bloody battles at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. In spite of casualties in the tens of thousands, Grant continued to take the offensive. His cavalry commander, Philip H. Sheridan, wanted to do the same. While the fighting raged at Spotsylvania, he approached Meade regarding his function in the current campaign. The traditional role of cavalry was to “screen,” or obscure, the movements of its own army while gathering information on the strength and movements of the enemy. Sheridan, however, wanted his cavalry to strike out on its own, not simply to observ