Question of the Week: 6/12-6/18/17
Who is YOUR favorite historical person from the Civil War Era?
Tell us your all-time favorite this week…and we’ll break the question into categories for the following week.
Who is YOUR favorite historical person from the Civil War Era?
Tell us your all-time favorite this week…and we’ll break the question into categories for the following week.
John S. Mosby.
I dare say a few others will say — Robert E Lee
Richard Taylor
US Grant
Elmer Ellsworth
John Pelham
Abraham Lincoln
Colonel John T. Wilder commander of the Lightning Brigade of the Army of the Cumberland consisting of mounted infantry with Spencer Repeating Rifles combining maneuver with superior firepower consistently outmatching opponents in greater numbers.
BG Charles Ferguson Smith and Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote, the grand old men of Fort Donelson
Admiral Raphael Semmes
Lt. Colonel Pendleton. His letters are amazingly fun and insightful for study.
John Buford
Peter Joseph Osterhaus
Rufus Dawes