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General Lunsford L. Lomax - The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume 4 EDIT: Change spelling of first name. See below.
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That's Lunsford, not Lensford, Mike.View attachment 185284
General Lensford L. Lomax - The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume 4
Thanks. I just copied his name from my computer. My personal scribe made a typo. I will chastise him forthwith!That's Lunsford, not Lensford, Mike.
He just finished reading it and said to tell you, "Thanks."Well, tell your scribe to check out Wikipedia, and forthwith take nothing on trust.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunsford_L._Lomax
Tell him that he is most welcome.He just finished reading it and said to tell you, "Thanks."
Too late for that. I fired him.Tell him that he is most welcome.
OH NO! Now I have to live with the guilt of causing someone to lose his job. I'm making no more comments about anything ever again.Too late for that. I fired him.
Please, don't worry. It's not your fault. He deserved it. He embarrassed me on a world-wide forum. I can do a good job of that all by myself.OH NO! Now I have to live with the guilt of causing someone to lose his job. I'm making no more comments about anything ever again.
Lomax was only 41 when he was killed at Seven Pines in 1862.View attachment 185371
Col. Tennant Lomax, 3rd Alabama Infantry
Mike has given me permission to add biographical information to his wonderful thread!View attachment 185547
Armistead L. Long - LOC
Lunsford L. LomaxView attachment 185284
General Lunsford L. Lomax - The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume 4 EDIT: Change spelling of first name. See below.
A wonderful photo of Law I've never seen before! Of course he commanded the Alabama Brigade in Hood's Division which included the famous 15th Ala. of Col. Oates that was Chamberlain's opposite number at Little Round Top at Gettysburg. When Hood was wounded there, Law as senior brigade commander assumed command of the division for the remainder of the battle and campaign. Law had a falling out with First Corps commander Longstreet when the latter recommended one of his favorites, Micah Jenkins, to lead the division in 1864. Perhaps Law received satisfaction when his rival was killed in the Wilderness by the same volley of friendly fire that also felled Longstreet!View attachment 183838
Colonel Evander McIvor Law, 4th Alabama Infantry - ADA
While vacationing last week at Appomattox I got to see the famous so-called (by Lee himself) Maryland Sword that Lee is wearing in this photo. It had been a present from an admirer in Maryland and traveled through the blockade from England where it had been made. This was the sidearm Lee wore at Appomattox when he met Grant to discuss surrender terms and in his memoirs Grant said that, contrary to legend, Lee made no gesture to surrender it; therefore Grant had no reason to make a show of refusing to accept it.View attachment 184238
General Robert E. Lee - LOC
Logan is someone I know almost nothing about, but he too was well-represented in the Appomattox Civil War Museum collection, formerly the Museum of the Confederacy from Richmond:View attachment 185135
Thomas Muldrup Logan - LOC
Well, you didn't need my permission but since you asked... Thanks for contributing!Mike has given me permission to add biographical information to his wonderful thread!
Armistead Lindsay Long
Died, April 20, 1891, at Charlottesville, Virginia, aged 64.
General Armistead Lindsay Long was born in Campbell County, near Lynchburg, in 1827. In 1846 he was appointed a cadet at West Point and four years later he graduated as First Lieutenant
He was Aide-de‑Camp to General E. V. Sumner, whose daughter, Mary Heron Sumner, he married in St. Louis in 1860. A soldier by choice and profession, his position was assured to him for life, and with the influence of General Sumner he had everything to hope for that a soldier's ambition could desire, but he was a Virginian, and at the demand of the convention of his native State he resigned his position in the United States Army and came to her defense.
General Long was appointed Major of Artillery in the Southern Army, July 20, 1861, and assigned to the Army of Northern Virginia as Chief of Artillery, commanded by General Loring. At the close of that campaign he was directed to report toGeneral Lee in the Southern Department as his Chief of Artillery. In March, 1862, General Lee, being created Commander-in‑Chief and military adviser to the President of the Confederacy, he was assigned to his staff as Military Secretary about the last of March with the rank of Colonel of Cavalry, and joined him about May, in Richmond.
He served on General Lee's staff in that capacity until the middle of September, 1863, when he was appointed Brigadier-General of Artillery and assigned to the Second Corps of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia (Stonewall Jackson's Corps). He remained on General Lee's staff until the fall of 1863; was with him on the southern sea-coast, and in every battle in which General Lee commanded. In the winter of 1863 and 1864 he suffered from a failure of health, facial paralysis following, but resisting his growing disabilities, he continued in action and served until the surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomattox.
He was a man of fine personal appearance, and in all the normal and mental qualifications which make up the model soldier, he was worthy of the confidence and regard of the distinguished p81 chieftain whose fortunes he had followed. After the war closed he was appointed chief engineer of the James-River and Kanawha-Canal Company. Soon after he lost his eye-sight by reason of exposure during his campaigns, when he removed to Charlottesville, and for twenty years was been in total darkness, incapacitated for active work and delicate in health.
During this period his active mind was much employed in recalling the incidents of the war and he had written a memoir of General Lee, He had also written reminiscences of his army life and a sketch of Stonewall Jackson, in which he traces the resemblance between this impetuous soldier and "Old Hickory." By reason of his blindness he was compelled to use a slate prepared for the use of the blind and to depend on members of his family and on friends to have his work copied. Under all these disadvantages he has worked along, uncomplainingly, dwelling with interest and delight on what was most pleasant in his past life, cheerful and always with placid courage looking forward to the end of his sad but honored career.
(Abridged by me from his obituary in the Twenty-Second Annual Reunion of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, June 12th, 1891.)
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer...y/USMA/AOG_Reunions/22/Armistead_L_Long*.html