I don't think this is the first time I've linked to an article about just how horribly Ken Burns' The Civil War has aged, since he chose to make good.
This is the grave of George Meade. Born in 1815 in Cádiz, Spain, Meade had a father who had made a ton of money in the merchant trade between the.
This is the grave of George Thomas. Born in 1816 in Southhampton County, Virginia, Thomas grew up in a family of slaveholders. They owned 685 acres and 24 slaves in.
This is the grave of George McClellan. Born in 1826 in Philadelphia, McClellan was a brilliant young child from a leading family. He started at the University of Pennsylvania in.
Scott referenced Jamelle Bouie's Times piece on the problems of free labor ideology and the failures of Reconstruction. It is really outstanding. The most important thing to understand about mid.
This is the grave of the traitor James Seddon. Born in 1815 in Falmouth, Virginia, Seddon was a pretty sickly child, so he was largely home-schooled. This wasn't so uncommon.
This is the grave of Fernando Wood. Born in 1812 in Philadelphia, Wood's Spanish first name, highly unusual for an English-American at the time, came out of a gothic novel.
This is the grave of the vile traitor Albert Sidney Johnston. Born in 1803 in Washington, Kentucky, he was educated first at Transylvania University in Lexington and then at the.
