tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post4418063288614190774..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Except in Direst Necessity'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-67560467572257510332012-12-12T15:45:44.819-06:002012-12-12T15:45:44.819-06:00Patrick,
You are the lucky one to tramp again the...Patrick,<br /><br />You are the lucky one to tramp again the field at Fredericksburg. While there, try to pick up a copy of Henry Abbott's letters (Fallen Leaves, ed. Robert Garth Scott, Kent State UP). It is one of the great collections of CW letters. Look up his comments on Grant and Meade, dated, April 4, 1864.Helen Pinkertonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-61591224658503277942012-12-11T06:28:56.903-06:002012-12-11T06:28:56.903-06:00O.O. Howard served creditably commanding a corps a...O.O. Howard served creditably commanding a corps and then an army in the west under Sherman. Evidently he was, as Abbott says, a pious man--a large cross in front of the Congregational Church at 10th and G Sts. NW in Washington, DC, commemorates him. Howard University in Washington, DC, is named for him; after the war he served as head of the Freedmen's Bureau.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com