I love the back room politics of the CW. I just finished a great series of articles also found on the Emerging Civil War website regarding
George Gordon Meade, The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Fabricated letters, false accusations, etc: I love it all!
I am no more informed after this current Powell article, than I was before it, because I feel that more source needs to be uncovered. I DO, however, really like the concept that with easier access to information via internet, there are still many articles and books to be written. Write on!
William Lamers’s outstanding biography of William S. Rosecrans was first published in 1961. Lamers mined the voluminous Rosecrans Papers extensively, which is where he found the Darr letter. He plumbed a wealth of other sources as well; the Chicago Tribune among them. What he lacked, of course, were the tools of a more modern age – the combination of search engines and digitized, online newspaper databanks that place millions of articles at our fingertips.
With these tools and the right search parameters, researchers can now reduce the endless hours once required to comb newspaper (and other) archives to mere minutes. That ability leads to some fascinating discoveries.
https://emergingcivilwar.com/2016/04/16/the-man-in-the-corner/