Category: biography
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Ham Chamberlayne: don’t we make history fast
I was first introduced to the legendary soldiers of the Late Unpleasantness as a new Civil War reader in the 1960s. Lee, Jackson, and Stuart; Grant and Sherman, certainly, but also more accessible lesser deities like Mosby, Pelham, Forrest, Semmes, and Gordon. For the generations before mine, particularly in the South, those and dozens more…
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Morrison family ties
The Reverend Doctor Robert Hall Morrison (1798-1889) was father-in-law to three Confederate general officers: D.H. Hill, Rufus C. Barringer, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (m. Mary Anna 1857).
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Captain Morrison’s red day at Sharpsburg
In a December 1905 piece in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Senator John W. Daniel, introducing Emmett M. Morrison’s memoir of the Battle of Sharpsburg, wrote … In many a nook and cranny in Virginia, too, is a valiant leader of his neighbors, who commanded and guided them in the battle shock, and stepped behind the scenes…
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Confederate surgeon Simon Baruch
This is Assistant Surgeon Simon Baruch (‘ba-rook’) of the 3rd South Carolina Battalion. I found him by following a thread in a CW Society post, part of their recent conversation about Jewish Confederates. Among those prominent in that service it mentioned … Nahum Baruch, the father of financier Bernard Baruch, was a doctor and Colonel…
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Antietam art from Arthur Lumley
Where the Muse points, you shall go. I was in my local library Sunday and saw this volume* displayed on the wall. I was immediately drawn to the book by the face on the cover; also thinking, at first, that it was Harry’s tousled Senator Jim Lane. By the time saw it was otherwise, it…
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James Madison Cutts of Washington, DC
I like to think I would have got to him eventually, but an email query from distant descendent Gene Siscoe brought Captain J.M. Cutts, Jr. (1837-1903) to my attention yesterday. The question concerned his actions on General Burnside’s staff at Antietam in 1862. Sadly, I can’t help much there, Cutts is only listed as present…
