Patriotic Gore by Edmond Wilson

[samgrant]

anyone familiar with this book? Only halfway thru, but more impressed the further I go. It is subtitled "Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War", and that's what it is.

Cover's stuff you'd expect like writings of Sherman and Grant and Lee, but also writings of folks you might have neglected ( Stow, Chesnut, ...), and those you might never have thought of reading: Frederick Olmsted, John T. Trowbridge, Kate Stone, Sarah Morgan, Richard Taylor, John S. Mosby, George Fitzhugh, Hilton Helper, Alexander Stephens, ...

If you've ever been tempted to find out what Cannibals All! or Slaves without Masters was all about without actually buying that book, here is explained what Fitzhugh was geting at.


.... Anon

[ole]

Good to have that recommendation, Sam. Will think about it again when my next root canal comes due.

[matthew mckeon]

"Patriotic Gore" is an awesome book. Based on it I read "Miss Ravenel's Conversion" an wonderful novel written by a former Union army officer a couple of years after the war.

[ole]

Gave a stab at finding it. Haven't, so far. However, did order The Wanderer, a book about the slave ship which purports to discuss the conspiracy leading to its commission and capture. By Erik Calonius.
Ole