The Last Days of the Confederacy (The Dial, 1912)This four page book review is a wonderful read, punctuated with interesting descriptions of the Civil War's most prominent players.
The memoir reviewed is The Sunset of the Confederacy
by former Confederate General Morris Schaff (1840 - 1929), author of The Battle of the Wilderness
(1910).
"We doubt that whether there is any Southern book more chivalrous in generosity of judgment about Southern leaders than is this; or a more emotional seizure of the passion, pathos, and heroism of the last days of the Lost Cause."
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The Contest for California (The Dial Magazine, 1912)Attached is the THE DIAL MAGAZINE book review of Elijah R. Kennedy's "The Contest for California in 1861". Kennedy maintained that "a large party in California and Oregon sought to deliver that region to the Southerners" and might have succeeded were it not for the efforts of one Colonel E.D. Baker.
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A Tale of Civil War Espionage by Alan Pinkerton (A Spy of the Rebelion, 1883)When the Civil War broke out, Alan Pinkerton (1819 - 1884) was given charge of the Union Intelligence Service, having previously gained tremendous credibility as a detective in Chicago. It was at this post, early in the war, that he was assigned a task by General George McClellan (1826 - 1885) to proceed south of the Ohio River in order to gain a more thorough understand as to the loyalties of those people. Pinkerton recalled this mission in the following essay, which first appeared in his Civil War memoir, "A Spy of the Rebellion
".
General Johnson Hagood of the Rebel Army (The Dial, 1911)A book review from 1911 covering the Civil War memoirs of the Confederate Brigadier General Johnson Hagood (1829 - 1898) who fought many battles during that conflict, most notably Cold Harbor and the battles of Weldon Road and Bentonville. At war's end he surrendered to General Sherman.
The Victory Parade in Washington Over Fifty Years Ago
(The Literary Digest, 1919)A reminiscence of the great 1865 parade following the close of America's bloody Civil War.
It took two days; with the Army of the Potomac marching on the first day followed by General Sherman's Army of the West on the next. "The Grand Review" was the brain-child of Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton and was attended by (so it was believed) over one hundred thousand people from the victorious Northern states.
*A Quick Film Clip Depicting the 1865 Grand Review*
Lincoln and Lee in 1918 (The Nation, 1918)On the first anniversary marking the American intervention into the First World War Charles Payne of Grenell College, Iowa, wrote to the editors at THE NATION and cautioned his fellow-Americans to remember the conduct and humility of Civil War General Robert E. Lee.
*Watch a Quick Film Clip About Lincoln and Lee and the Battle of Antietam*
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