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CW & Pop Culture: Robert E. Lee and The Guns of the South: 1992 vs. 2019
In the 1990s it was common enough at my New Orleans high school to see copies of Harry Turtledove’s The Guns of the South. It offered a beguiling and humorous image of Robert E. Lee in his classic pose, only this time sporting an AK-47 assault rifle. I avoided reading it, only to decide in […]
Read more...A Lost Opportunity: Glendale
In late June 1862, Robert E. Lee Struck George McClellan’s right flank at Mechanicsville. This attack, plus reports that Stonewall Jackson’s valley army was approaching on his right, caused McClellan to change his base from White House Landing on the Pamunkey to the security of the James River. He needed time, and ordered Fitz John […]
Read more...“I Felt Keenly All the Horrors of War”: Psychological Experiences of Civil War Generals During the Mexican War
There is no shortage of connections between the Mexican War (1846-48) and the American Civil War. When Lee and Grant met at Appomattox in April 1865, the two adversaries eased the tension by evoking memories of the Mexican War. Lee and Grant were just two of the 336 of 1,008 Civil War generals (33%) who […]
Read more...Of Dentists & Elections
I’ve been reading 1864 entries from Benjamin Brown French’s journal this summer as part of my tangent study for perspective on how folks in the north responded to the impending presidential election. French offers quite a contrast of subjects in his entries at the end of August and beginning of September.
Read more...“Down Fame’s Ladder”: Brigadier General Thomas W. Egan’s Unending War
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock gave glowing praise of the Third Division’s 1st Brigade and its commander, 29-year-old Colonel Thomas W. Egan, in his report following the Battle of North Anna on May 23, 1864. “Egan’s brigade, led gallantly by its commander, charged over an open field, several hundred yards in breadth, which ascended sharply […]
Read more...Lew Wallace Secures the B&O– For the First Time (Pt. 2)
Part 1 is available here. It was a busy June for Lew Wallace. He and his 11th Indiana Zouaves had been posted at Cumberland, Maryland to guard the vital Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bridges across the Potomac River. Their raid against Romney, Virginia had elicited a Confederate response, and now, by late June, 1861, it […]
Read more...Kill General Lee: A Yankee Officer Opposes Reconciliation
We’ve all heard the simplified story. Confederate veterans roll up their battle flags at Appomattox and Robert E. Lee charges them with being good citizens as they return to the United States. Impressed by this act of good faith and awed by their antagonists’ hard fighting, Union soldiers graciously accept their foe’s surrender and return […]
Read more...I fits mit Sigel – New Market, May 15, 1864
There are certain figures in Civil War history who are always good for an easy laugh. Braxton Bragg, on harmonious leadership. George McClellan, concerning rapid movement. Franz Sigel. On, well, most anything.
Read more...Online Appendixes
by Constance Hall Jones Click here for the exclusive on-line chapter “The Descendants of William Ellis Jones (and what became of his legendary library).” * * * William Ellis Jones, Steam Book and Job Press The following is an incomplete list of the surviving books, periodicals, pamphlets, and other materials published […]
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