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Historian Allen C. Guelzo on Hard Choices and Robert E. Lee

The Daily Stoic

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Civil War Personnel Problems in the Post Civil War Period

The record of the occupation forces, if we can call them that, in the post civil war era is very uneven. You have people like winfield scott hancock, a civil war hero in texas, who has very little sympathy with the freed people. People like george gordon mead in georgia, again, the hero of gettysburg. So there's a problem there with the available personnel whom you going to put in charge of places like this. Course, the ultimate personnel problem was the president of the united states, and that as andrew johnson.

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