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Macy's owns what other retail icon based at 59th Lexington in Manhattan?
Bloomingdale's
Who was Ronald Reagan's first secretary of state?
Retired army general, Alexander Haig was the 59th Secretary of state and Ronald Reagan's first. He served from January 22, 1981 to July 5, 1982.
When did Confederate General Ambrose Powell Hill graduate from West Point?
Confederate General George Edward Pickett graduated from West Point in 1846. He ranked 59th in a class of fifty nine. Pickett is most remembered for his role in the Battle of Gettysburg. He was unfairly criticized for his repeated assaults on fortified Union positions during that battle.
Which high school basketball coach has the most career wins?
As of Nov 2010, John McKissick completed his 59th season at Summerville HS (SC) with a record of 586-138-13. (I live near Summerville High School!!!!)
Who were the oldest and youngest soldiers recorded?
George S. Lamkin of Winona, Mississippi, joined Stanford's Mississippi Battery when he was eleven, and before his twelfth birthday was severely wounded at Shiloh.T.D. Claiborne, who left Virginia Military Institute at thirteen, in 1861 reportedly became captain of the 18th Virginia that year, and was killed in 1864, at seventeen. (This likely belongs with the war's apochrypha.)E.G. Baxter, of Clark County, Kentucky, is recorded as enlisting in Company A, 7th Kentucky Cavalry in June, 1862,when he was not quite thirteen (birth date: September 10, 1849), and a year later was a second lieutenant.John Bailey Tyler, of D Troop, 1st Maryland Cavalry, born in Frederick, Maryland, in 1849, was twelve when war came. He fought with his regiment until the end, without a wound.T.G. Bean, of Pickensville, Alabama, was probably the wars most youthful recruiter. He organized two companies at the University of Alabama in 1861, when he was thirteen, though he did not get into service until two years later, when he served as adjutant of the cadet corps taken into the Confederate armies.M.W. Jewett, of Ivanhoe, Virginia, is said to have been a private in the 59th Virginia at thirteen, serving at Charleston, South Carolina, in Florida, and at the siege of Petersburg.W.D. Peak, of Oliver Springs, Tennessee, was fourteen when he joined Company A, 26th Tennessee, and Matthew J. McDonald, of Company I, 1st Georgia Cavalry, began service at the same age.John T. Mason of Fairfax County, Virginia, went through the first battle of Manassas as a "marker" for the files of the 17th Virginia at age fourteen, was soon trained as a midshipman in the tiny Confederate Navy, and was aboard the famed cruiser Shenandoah.One of Francis Scott Key's grandsons, Billings Steele, who lived near Annapolis, Maryland, crossed the Potomac to join the rangers of Colonel John S. Mosby, at the age of sixteen.
