Harness jingles and hoofs pound as Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown (JEB) Stuart leads his three brigades of veteran troopers on a ride that triggers one of the Civil War’s most bitter and enduring controversies
from First Manassas/Bull Run to the defense of Petersburg
showing him on the verge of greatness
and diversion through cunning
describing in letters home
Wars Within A War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War: Twelve Leading Scholars on the Meaning of the War and its Memory (Joan Waugh, Gary W. Gallagher - CH) amos Harness jingles and hoofs poundComprised of essays from twelve leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitmans poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment of disabled and destitute northern veterans, Ulysses S. Grants imposing tomb, and Hollywoods long relationship with the Lost Cause narrative. The