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"Henry Hopkins Sibley (May 25, 1816 – August 23, 1886) was a career officer in the United States Army, who commanded a Confederate cavalry brigade in the Civil War. In 1862, he attempted to forge a supply route from California, in defiance of the Union blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf ports, while also aiming to appropriate the Colorado gold mines to replenish the Confederate treasury. After capturing Albuquerque and Santa Fe, he was forced to retreat after losing the Battle of Glorieta Pass (in today's New Mexico). He was then given minor commands in the southern Louisiana operations, but was accused of serious blunders, apparently caused by drunkenness. Sibley designed a new easy-to-pack 12-man bell tent and stove that were used for many years by the American and British armies. Family and early life Henry Hopkins Sibley's grandfather, Dr. John Sibley, served as a medic in Massachusetts in the American Revolutionary War. His wife was Elizabeth Hopkins, whose family name was given as a middle name to their son Samuel and grandson Henry. After her death in 1803, Dr. Sibley was part of an expedition to the Red River country of western Louisiana for the US government after the Louisiana Purchase and chose to settle in Natchitoches. In 1811, his son Samuel Hopkins Sibley and his wife followed to Natchitoches. Samuel Sibley served as a parish clerk from 1815 until his death in 1823. Henry Hopkins Sibley was born in Natchitoches in 1816. After his father's death when Henry was seven years old, the boy was sent to Missouri to live with his paternal uncle George Champlin Sibley and his wife Mary Easton, the founders of Lindenwood College in St. Charles, Missouri. Union general and first Governor of Minnesota, Henry Hastings Sibley (1811–1891), was a distant cousin. His family had migrated west in the Northern Tier, which historians have called Greater New England. U.S. Army service At the age of 17, Henry was admitted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He graduated in 1838 and was commissioned as second lieutenant in the 2nd U.S. Dragoons. He fought Seminole Indians in Florida, 1840–1841; participated in the Military Occupation of Texas, 1845–1846; and fought in the Mexican–American War, 1847–1848. Sibley was on frontier duty in Texas from 1850 to 1855. Sibley was a creative military man. In the 1850s, he invented the "Sibley tent", which was widely used by the Union Army during the American Civil War and for a short while afterward. The United Kingdom also adopted the design of the Sibley tent. He also invented the Sibley stove (also known as the Sibley tent stove), to heat the tent. The Army used tent stoves of this design into the early years of World War II. From 1855–1857, Sibley was part of the forces trying to control conflict in Bleeding Kansas, where hundreds of new settlers arrived to vote on the question of slavery, provoked by the 1854 Kansas–Nebraska Act. He took part in the Utah War, 1857–1860, and was in active service in New Mexico 1860–1861. After the outbreak of the Civil War, Sibley resigned on May 13, 1861, the day of his promotion to major in the 1st Dragoons. Native to Louisiana, he had southern sympathies and joined the Confederate States Army (CSA). Civil War Sibley resigned from the US Army as he sided with the Confederacy. Placed in command of a brigade of volunteer cavalry in West Texas, Sibley dubbed his small force the Army of New Mexico and began planning a New Mexico Campaign to capture the cities of Albuquerque and Santa Fe and Fort Union on the Santa Fe Trail to establish a forward base of supply. He then intended to continue north to Colorado to capture the numerous gold and silver mines in the area as a means of replenishing the badly depleted Confederate treasury. From there, Sibley planned to join forces with Confederate Lieut. John R. Baylor, already in control of much of southern New Mexico and Arizona territories and headquartered in Tucson, AZ. Their ultimate strategy was to gain access to the warm-water ports of California and establish a badly needed supply line to the South, as the Union Navy had implemented a naval blockade from Virginia to Texas.The Civil War in the Western Territories, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press 1959 Throughout the 1862 New Mexico campaign, his opponent was Colonel Edward Canby, formerly a comrade in arms in the U.S. Army. Some historians have said he was Sibley's brother in law,Kerby, The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico and Arizona, 1861–1862, pg. 52 but this relation has been disputed.Taylor (1995) and Whitlock (2006) find no conclusive evidence that they were. Sibley was initially successful at the Battle of Valverde on 20–21 February and pressed on to capture Albuquerque and Santa Fe in the first weeks of March. Although the subsequent Battle of Glorieta Pass on March 28 ended in an apparent Confederate victory on the field, Sibley had to retreat because his supply train was destroyed and most of the horses and mules killed or driven off during the fight. At the same time, Union forces were approaching New Mexico from the west, the California Column. Glorieta Pass has been called the "Gettysburg of the West" by some authors;Civil War in the American West Sibley's retreat to the campaign's starting point at Fort Bliss in April ended the hopes of the Confederate nation to stretch to the Pacific Ocean and use the mineral wealth of California and possibly Colorado. After the failure of the New Mexico campaign, Sibley was given minor commands under General Richard Taylor about Bayou Teche in south Louisiana, commanding the "Arizona Brigade" at the battles of Irish Bend and Fort Bisland. The historian John D. Winters reports that he blundered on several occasions, not striking when instructed.John D. Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963, , pp, 221–230 Struggling with alcoholism, he was court martialed in Louisiana in 1863. Although not convicted of cowardice, he was censured. Postbellum career and death After the war, Thaddeus P. Mott recruited former Union and CSA soldiers for service in the Egyptian Army. Sibley was one of the first people to arrive in Egypt and served from 1870 to 1873 as a military adviser (with the rank of brigadier general of artillery) to the Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, overseeing the construction of coastal fortifications. However, he fell back into problems with alcohol, and he was dismissed due to illness and disability. Back in the U.S., Sibley lived from 1874 with his daughter in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He wrote articles and worked on military inventions. He fought a legal battle with the U.S. government for outstanding payments on its patents. He died in poverty. He is buried in the Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery. In popular media * Sibley is referred to several times in the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) directed by Sergio Leone.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, produced by Alberto Grimaldi and directed by Sergio Leone in 1966. It was released as part of The Sergio Leone Anthology by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer in 2003. Sibley is pointed out at about the 42-minute point in the 2003 film. The documentary is on the special features disk accompanying the film. He can be seen riding in the passenger seat on a carriage as the soldiers make their procession through a town. * General Sibley appears as a minor character in Nando Cicero's Red Blood, Yellow Gold (1967), played by an uncredited Carlo Gentili. * He is mentioned in the documentary The Man Who Lost The Civil War (2003), a special feature as part of MGM's release of a Leone DVD anthology in 2003. See also * List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) References Further reading * Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . * Kerby, Robert L., The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico and Arizona, 1861–1862, Westernlore Press, 1958, 1995, . * Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. . * Taylor, John, Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862, University of New Mexico Press, 1995, . * Thompson, Jerry D., Civil War in the Southwest: Recollections of the Sibley Brigade, TAMU Press, 2001, . * Thompson, Jerry D., Henry Hopkins Sibley: Confederate General of the West, Northwestern State University Press, 1987, . * Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. . * Whitlock, Flint, Distant Bugles, Distant Drums: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico, University Press of Colorado, 2006, . External links * Military biography of Henry Hopkins Sibley 1816 births 1886 deaths People from Natchitoches, Louisiana Confederate States Army brigadier generals American military personnel of the Mexican–American War Members of the Aztec Club of 1847 United States Military Academy alumni Lindenwood University people Military personnel from Fredericksburg, Virginia People of Louisiana in the American Civil War People of New Mexico in the American Civil War American people in the khedivial Egyptian Army United States Army officers "
"Dag Solstad Dag Solstad during the Oslo Bokfestival, 2010 Dag Solstad (born 16 July 1941) is a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist whose work has been translated into 20 languages. He has written nearly 30 books and is the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics' Award three times. His awards include the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1969, the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1989, for Roman 1987 and the Brage Prize in 2006 for Armand V. Solstad is among Norway's top-ranked authors of his generation. His early books were considered somewhat controversial, due to their political emphasis (leaning towards the Marxist–Leninist side of the political spectrum). Dag Solstad lives part-time in Berlin and part-time in Oslo. Personal life Solstad was born in Sandefjord to merchant Ole Modal Solstad and Ragna Sofie Tveitan. His first marriage was to Erna Irene Asp, from 1968. From 1983 to 1990 he was married Tone Elisabeth Melgård. In 1995 he married journalist Therese Bjørneboe, and is thus son-in-law of writer Jens Bjørneboe. Selected works In 16.07.41 (2002), he tells the story in the first-person narrative, of his long and frequent walks through the streets of Berlin. However, the story is at the same time a journey in pursuit of a father-son relationship. T. Singer (1999) is a story about a 34-year-old librarian who leaves Oslo in search of a satisfying and anonymous life in a smaller town. He marries a single mother and at first feels contented in his invisible role as husband and stepfather. However, after two years, Singer files for divorce; she is later killed in a car accident. He returns to Oslo with his stepdaughter where they live together but lead separate lives. Singer broods and becomes very alone yet feels content in the fact that he has chosen an enigmatic lifestyle. This book contains philosophical and existential observations of someone seeking to authenticate their identity through chosen isolation rather than social integration. Medaljens forside (1990) is a book on the history of the industrial construction and engineering company Aker Kværner, but the author insists it should nevertheless be considered as a novel, with the Aker company as its main character. His 1982 novel Gymnaslærer Pedersens beretning om den store politiske vekkelse som har hjemsøkt vårt land was adapted for the screen in 2006 by Hans Petter Moland as Gymnaslærer Pedersen. Other writings and assessment With fellow novelist Jon Michelet, Solstad has published a book after each of the FIFA World Cups in 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1998. The books blend analytic reporting with political and cultural commentary, and are contributions to genuine literature. Solstad has also published various essays and articles, both for literary magazines and newspapers, and selections of these have been collected and published in three separate volumes. In her PhD thesis Why So Big? A Literary Discourse Analysis of Dag Solstad's Authorship (University of Oslo, 2009), Inger Østenstad argues from different perspectives that Solstad is Norway's greatest contemporary writer, and uses a version of Dominique Maingueneau's discourse theory to analyse the components of oeuvre, reception, para-text and meta-text that in Solstad's case contribute to his established greatness. Peter Handke, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Per Petterson, three contemporary writers, regard Solstad highly for his literary excellence. Novels * Irr! Grønt! – (1969) * Arild Asnes, 1970 – (1971) * 25. septemberplassen – (1974) * Svik. Førkrigsår – (1977) * Krig. 1940 (War. 1940) – (1978) * Brød og våpen (Bread and Weapons) – (1980) * Gymnaslærer Pedersens beretning om den store politiske vekkelse som har hjemsøkt vårt land – (1982) * Forsøk på å beskrive det ugjennomtrengelige – (1984) * Roman 1987 (Novel 1987) – (1987) * Medaljens forside (The Front of the Medal) – (1990) * Ellevte roman, bok atten (Novel 11, Book 18) – (1992) * Genanse og verdighet (Shyness and Dignity) – (1994) * Professor Andersens natt (Professor Andersen's Night) – (1996) * T. Singer – (1999) * 16/07/41 – (2002) * Armand V. Fotnoter til en uutgravd roman (Armand V. Footnotes from an unexcavated novel) – (2006) * 17. roman (Novel 17) − (2009) * Det uoppløselige episke element i Telemark i perioden 1591-1896 : roman (2013) Awards and prizes * Mads Wiel Nygaard's Endowment 1969 * Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature 1969, for Irr! Grønt! * Språklig samlings litteraturpris 1982 * Nordic Council's Literature Prize 1989, for Roman 1987 * Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature 1992, for Novel 11, Book 18 * Dobloug Prize 1996 * Gyldendalprisen 1996 * Brage Prize Honorary Award 1998 * Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature 1999, for T. Singer * Vestfolds Litteraturpris 2001 * Aschehoug Prize 2004 * Brage Prize 2006, for Armand V. Fotnoter til en uutgravd roman * Swedish Academy Nordic Prize 2017 References External links *Dag Solstad's biography and bibliography at Aschehoug Agency *Dag Solstad at Forlaget Oktober *Solstad bibliography : literature by and on Dag Solstad (National Library of Norway) =Reviews= *Dag Solstad, The Art of Fiction No. 230 – interview with Ane Farsethås in The Paris Review, Issue 217, Summer 2016 *Marginal Men Take Center Stage in the Novels of Dag Solstad – James Wood in The New Yorker, 15 October 2018. Published in the print edition of 22 October 2018 issue, with the headline "Not Important." *Novel 11, book18 – Paul Binding in The Independent, 12 December 2008 *Shyness and Dignity – Boyd Tonkin in The Independent, 28 November 2006 Norwegian essayists Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature winners 1941 births Living people Dobloug Prize winners 20th-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian dramatists and playwrights Norwegian male short story writers Nordic Council Literature Prize winners People from Sandefjord 20th-century Norwegian short story writers 21st-century Norwegian short story writers 20th-century essayists 21st-century essayists 20th-century Norwegian male writers 21st-century Norwegian male writers "
"Ronald Ray Fairly (July 12, 1938 – October 30, 2019) was an American Major League Baseball player and broadcaster. Combining playing and broadcasting appearances, Fairly was involved in over 7,000 major league games from 1958 through 2006. Early life and college career Fairly was born in Macon, Georgia, but moved to Southern California when he was three months old, where he grew up. Fairly played varsity baseball for Rod Dedeaux at the University of Southern California (1958), and made the most of it. He hit .348 with team highs of nine home runs and 67 RBI while lettering as a sophomore center fielder on the 1958 Trojan baseball team which won USC's second College World Series championship. There he was a teammate of future baseball executive and General Manager Pat Gillick. An All-District 8 selection that season, he was signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent. After two brief minor league stops, he made the big club late in September 1958. Professional career A competitive player and highly disciplined hitter, Fairly had a short and compact swing with occasional power to all fields. With his glove, he was a competent first baseman as well as at all three outfield positions, being best suited for right field. His talents were overshadowed by a notorious lack of speed. He is one of very few players to play 1000 games or more in both the outfield and the infield. Fairly played 21 seasons of Major League Baseball, 12 of them with the Los Angeles Dodgers, where he won three World Series titles. In 2442 career games, Fairly had 1913 hits, a .266 batting average with 215 HR and 1044 RBI, while walking 1052 times compared to only 877 strikeouts. He posted a career .990 fielding percentage. Fairly played in four World Series, appearing in 20 games, hitting .300 with 2 HR and 6 RBI, all with the Los Angeles Dodgers. His career home run total is the most in major league history for a player without a 20-home run season. =Los Angeles Dodgers (1958–1969)= Fairly made his Major League Baseball debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 9, 1958, going hitless in three at- bats in a 4-3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. The next day, Fairly collected his first career hit, a single off the Phillies Robin Roberts. On September 12, Fairly hit his first career home run off Ron Kline of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Overall with the Dodgers, Fairly played in 15 games, hitting .283 with 2 HR and 8 RBI. In 1959, Fairly was used mostly as a pinch hitter and a defensive replacement late in games, as in 118 games with Los Angeles, he had only 244 at-bats. During the season, he hit .238 with 4 HR and 23 RBI, helping Los Angeles win the National League pennant and advance to the 1959 World Series. Fairly played in all six games during the World Series, going hitless in three at-bats, as the Dodgers won the series over the Chicago White Sox. Fairly spent the majority of the 1960 season with the Dodgers AAA affiliate, the Spokane Indians of the Pacific Coast League, as he played in only 14 games with Los Angeles, hitting .108 with 1 HR and 3 RBI. In 1961, Fairly played in 111 games with the Dodgers, as he hit .322 with 10 HR and 48 RBI, while spending time between the three outfield positions and first base. Fairly became the Dodgers' everyday first baseman during the 1962 season, as in 147 games, he hit .278 with 14 HR and 71 RBI. Fairly helped the Dodgers clinch the National League pennant in 1963, as he played in 152 games, hitting .271 with 12 HR and 77 RBI. In the 1963 World Series against the New York Yankees, Fairly played in all four games, however, he was credited with only one official at-bat, as he failed to register a hit, but walked three times as Los Angeles won the series. Fairly had another solid season with the Dodgers in 1964, batting .256 with 10 HR and 74 RBI in 150 games. In 1965, Fairly appeared in a career high 158 games with Los Angeles, hitting .274 with 9 HR and 70 RBI, helping the club to their third National League pennant since Fairly joined the team. In the 1965 World Series against the Minnesota Twins, Fairly played a key role in the Dodgers' seven game series victory, as he hit .379 with 2 HR and 6 RBI, as Los Angeles won their third World Series title in seven years. Fairly missed a month of the season due to injuries in 1966, playing in only 117 games, his lowest total since 1961, however, he hit .288 with 14 HR and 61 RBI, helping the Dodgers clinch the National League pennant for the second consecutive season. In the 1966 World Series against the Baltimore Orioles, Fairly hit only .143 with no home runs or RBI in three games, as the Dodgers lost to the Orioles. In 1967, Fairly struggled offensively, as his batting average dipped to .220, while he had 10 HR and 55 RBI in 153 games. Fairly continued his struggles throughout the 1968 season, as he hit only .234 with 4 HR and 43 RBI in 141 with the Dodgers. He began the 1969 season with Los Angeles, however, Fairly continued to struggle with his bat, hitting .219 with 0 HR and 8 RBI in 30 games with the Dodgers. On June 11, Los Angeles traded Fairly and Paul Popovich to the Montreal Expos for Manny Mota and Maury Wills. =Montreal Expos (1969–1974)= After struggling offensively with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the previous two seasons, Fairly immediately improved with his move to the expansion team Montreal Expos in 1969, where in 70 games with the Expos, Fairly hit .289 with 12 HR and 39 RBI. Fairly had a very solid season in 1970, playing in 119 games with the Expos, hitting .288 with 15 HR and 61 RBI, as well as stealing a career high 10 bases. Fairly saw his batting average fall to .257 in the 1971 season, however, his power numbers remained steady, as he hit 13 HR and 71 RBI in 146 games with Montreal. He continued his solid play with the Expos in 1972, as Fairly hit .278 with 17 HR and 68 RBI in 140 games. Fairly played in his first ever MaJor League All-Star game when he appeared late in the game during the 1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game as a defensive replacement. Overall with the Expos, Fairly hit .276 with 86 HR and 331 RBI in 718 games. During the 1974 season, Fairly lost some playing time, as he appeared in only 101 games with Montreal, hitting .243 with 12 HR and 43 RBI. On December 6, the Expos traded Fairly to the St. Louis Cardinals for Ed Kurpiel and Rudy Kinard. =St. Louis Cardinals (1975–1976)= Fairly spent the 1975 season as a utility player for the St. Louis Cardinals where in 107 games, he hit .307 with 7 HR and 37 RBI, as he saw his playing time split between first base and as an outfielder. He started the 1976 season with St. Louis, appearing in 73 games, hitting .264 with 0 HR and 21 RBI. On September 14, his contract was purchased by the Oakland Athletics. =Oakland Athletics (1976)= Fairly finished the 1976 season with the Oakland Athletics. In 15 games with Oakland, Fairly hit .239 with 3 HR and 10 RBI, as the Athletics finished in second place in the AL West, ending their division title streak at five. On February 24, 1977, the A's traded Fairly to the Toronto Blue Jays for Gary Weathers and cash. =Toronto Blue Jays (1977)= Fairly split the 1977 season between designated hitter, first base and the outfield, as he played in 132 games with Toronto, hitting .279 with a team leading 19 HR and 64 RBI. He appeared in the 1977 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, as a pinch hitter, striking out against Tom Seaver. Fairly is the only player to have represented both Canadian expansion MLB teams in the All-Star game. On December 8, the Blue Jays traded Fairly to the California Angels for Butch Alberts and Pat Kelly. =California Angels (1978)= Fairly finished his career with the California Angels in 1978, playing in 91 games, hitting .217 with 10 HR and 40 RBI. He announced his retirement at the end of the season. Broadcaster After his playing days ended, Fairly began his broadcasting career in 1979 at KTLA in Los Angeles and later joined Bob Starr in the California Angels radio/television booth. During the 1984 season, he also served as the club's hitting instructor for manager John McNamara while continuing to hold down his radio duties. Considered "one of the most knowledgeable baseball men in the organization," he suited up prior to each game to instruct hitters during batting practice before returning to the broadcast booth to do Angels games for KMPC radio. Fairly said of the new assignment, "When you play as long as I did, you're constantly talking hitting. But I don't see this role in the context of instructing as much as reminding guys what they do well. I get to the park early anyway. And there's no conflict really with my radio work." Then Angels General Manager Buzzie Bavasi told the Orange County Register in announcing the decision, "Since we were planning on adding a hitting instructor, the feeling was we had the man right here. Ron is intelligent, articulate and knows the game." In 1987, Fairly moved up the coast and could be heard on KNBR as the voice of the San Francisco Giants. In 1993, he went further north as a broadcaster for the Seattle Mariners, where he stayed through the 2006 season. Fairly served primarily as a color commentator, but occasionally stepped in to do play-by-play as well. In 1997, Fairly was selected to the USC's Athletic Hall of Fame, joining former Trojans Marcus Allen, Buster Crabbe, Charles Dumas, Frank Gifford, Ronnie Lott, Fred Lynn, Tom Seaver and O.J. Simpson, et al. On September 21, 2006, the Mariners announced that Fairly had decided to retire from his post as a team broadcaster after 14 seasons, ending a 27-year career in Major League Baseball broadcasting. Coupled with 21 years as a player, Fairly spent 48 years in and around the Major Leagues. From June 15 to June 17, 2007, Fairly briefly came out of retirement to work as a television analyst for the Mariners during a three-game interleague series against the Houston Astros, in Houston, due to broadcaster Mike Blowers being on vacation. From July 15 to July 18, 2010, Fairly broadcast the Mariners' four-game series against the Los Angeles Angels with Rick Rizzs on KIRO 710 to fill in for Dave Niehaus, who was on vacation. In 2011 and 2012 Fairly returned once more to the Mariners' radio booth, as one of a rotating group of guest announcers filling in on their broadcasts following the death of Dave Niehaus after the 2010 season. Later life and death Fairly died of pancreatic cancer on October 30, 2019, aged 81. See also *List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders *List of Major League Baseball career runs batted in leaders References External links *Ron Fairly at SABR (Baseball BioProject) *Ron Fairly at Baseball Library *USC Athletic Hall of Fame inductees (1994–2005) – Ron Fairly – 1997 1938 births 2019 deaths American expatriate baseball players in Canada American League All-Stars Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state) California Angels broadcasters California Angels players Deaths from cancer in California Deaths from pancreatic cancer Des Moines Bruins players Los Angeles Dodgers players Major League Baseball first basemen Major League Baseball right fielders Montreal Expos players National League All-Stars Oakland Athletics players San Francisco Giants broadcasters Seattle Mariners broadcasters Spokane Indians players Sportspeople from Macon, Georgia St. Louis Cardinals players St. Paul Saints (AA) players Toronto Blue Jays players USC Trojans baseball players "