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Tag Archives: Albert Sydney Johnston
Question of the Week: June 8, 2014
At Shiloh, Albert Sidney Johnston put himself in harm’s way trying to redeem a reputation bruised by the fall of forts Henry and Donelson two month’s earlier. Because he put himself in a position no general of his rank should … Continue reading
Telling History vs. Making Art: The ways we remember the war
Part two in a series “We may say that only at the moment when Lee handed Grant his sword was the Confederacy born,” wrote Robert Penn Warren during the Civil War’s centennial; “or to state matters another way, in the … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Memory, Personalities, Slavery
Tagged Albert Sydney Johnston, David Blight, David O. Selznick, Emancipation Cause, Gary Gallagher, Gone with the Wind, History-vs-Art, Ken Burns, Lost Cause, Reconciliation Cause, Robert E. Lee, Robert Penn Warren, Shiloh, slavery, states' rights, Stonewall Jackson, Telling History vs. Making Art, The Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, Union Cause
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