Harper's And Nast Leave No Woman Behind- War In The West

JPK Huson 1863

Brev. Brig. Gen'l
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Thanks to @18thVirginia the struggles of our ancestors during those awful years have been laid as bare as the charred, skeletal remains their towns were savagely reduced to. As barbaric a tale as any our country offers in its insistence on visiting barbarism upon each other, Harper's Weekly took notice, the story helpfully underscored by Thomas Nast's equally savage pen.

I realize Harper's will be one sided- please no one kill the messenger. It was just good to see even one part of the suffering out there acknowledged.

I rarely post two threads, being consuming of non-existent time here but this couldn't wait. Yet another treasure waiting to be mined, Harper's in archives. While Sarah Hale and Godey's was setting the seal on that magazine's reign by pretending the war barely took place, Harpers threw in the occasional frill, crinoline and ruffle plus bit deeply into the war and turned everyone's favorite pit bull loose on these topics, Nash. . Like this.

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Good to bump, JPK. The thing that people sometimes forget about the War out West was that it had been going on for a long time before Fort Sumner.
 
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