Civil War Spies

Bill Anderson

Today in History: Born on August 18

Daniel Webster, congressman from New Hampshire, Massachusetts senator, and secretary of state before the Civil War.

Joseph Glidden, inventor.

Daniel Hale Williams, physician who performed the first open heart surgery, founder of Chicago's Provident Hospital.

A.A. [Alan Alexander] Milne, novelist, humorist and journalist (Winnie the Pooh).

Oliver Hardy, film comedian, one half of Laurel and Hardy.

Cary Grant, U.S. film actor (Gunga Din, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, North by Northwest).

Belief that they were fighting a civilized war allowed most combatants to accept parole

It was in the Dakota Territory, writes Michael Blake, that Roosevelt learned to carry a big stick as well as the importance of conservation