U.S. Civil War Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Fantasies: Trollope’s Brittanula, Churchill’s Battle of Gettysburg

11 April 2022

1930: Kaiser Wilhelm II may today occupy "the most splendid situation in Europe." But "let him not forget that he might well have found himself eating the bitter bread of exile, a dethroned sovereign and a broken man loaded with unutterable reproach...if Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg."

Churchill’s Fantasy: “If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg”

1 January 2021

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Robert E. Lee and the Fashionable Urge to Hide from History

7 July 2019

On the tearing down of statues and symbols, Shelby Foote cited a state senator, who got her fellow senators to disallow the use of a Confederate symbol—not the Battle Flag—by the Daughters of the Confederacy. "I don't understand that," he said. "It's a violation of the Greaat Compromise. It's an arousal of bitterness. Now she, along with a great many others, do not want to be reminded. She has every right to want to hide from history if she wants to. But it seems to me that she's trying to hide history from us—and that's a mistake."