Civil War Times: May 1998 Letters

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William Preston Mangum II
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

I take fault with the manner in which author Wiley Sword presented his feature “The Other Stonewall.” Sword’s attempt to second-guess moves by President Davis and Generals Lee, Jackson, Johnston, Hood, and Hardee, all of whom in some way contributed to the South’s failed cause, is moot now. Sword deserves credit for trying to enlighten the unenlightened about the merits of General Pat Cleburne. To cast a bad light on others to achieve this consideration for Cleburne is not the way to elevate his subject. Sword’s piece about Cleburne is the poorest and most questionable writing I’ve read in ages.

Ralph B. Cushman
Houston, Texas

Errata

February: “The Other Stonewall”–At the Battle of Shiloh, William J. Hardee, not Braxton Bragg, commanded Cleburne’s corps in the newly redesignated Army of the Mississippi. In addition, the fight at the Hornets’ Nest was on the first day of the battle, not the second. “Cleburne’s Final Charge”–Milledgeville, not Atlanta, was the capital of Georgia during the Civil War.

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