Question of the Week: What officer’s staff would you want to join?
If you could join the staff of one military or naval officer from 1865, whose would you most want to join?
If you could join the staff of one military or naval officer from 1865, whose would you most want to join?
Meade…just to see what happened at Gettysburg.
I would like to be on Stonewall Jackson’s staff. Just to see how genius and eccentricity could coexist in one individual.
In 1865 I would prefer to be with Edmond Kirby-Smith just to see what happened in the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy because there are so many questions about the disintegration.
In 1865 for the Union side I would like to have been on Grant”s staff to see so many parts moving at the same time and answer questions about the relationships with various leaders both political and military concerning the final days of the war.
Joe Hooker’s headquarters seems like it was a lot of fun…