Скачать или смотреть CWRT Feb 2018 Lawrence Lee Hewitt: “Confederate General Richard Heron Anderson”

If asked to name the six lieutenant
generals who served as infantry corps
commanders under Robert E. Lee
in the Army of Northern Virginia,
Jackson, Longstreet, A. P. Hill,
Ewell, and Early, would probably be
followed by John Brown Gordon.
Yet, the sixth was Richard Heron
Anderso--in terms of seniority, if not
ability.
Despite a mediocre performance as
division commander at Gettysburg,
Lee called upon Anderson to
take charge of
the 1st Corps
when Longstreet
was wounded in
the Wilderness.
Following the
Overland Campaign
he reinforced Early
in the Shenandoah Valley. When
Longstreet returned to duty, Lee
gave Anderson the 4th Corps,
Beauregard’s old command. He
managed to escape capture at Little
Sailor’s Creek only to be relieved
two days later. It was a precursor to
his postwar career.
Lawrence Lee Hewitt, a native of
Louisville, Kentucky, received his
B.A. (1974) from the University of
Kentucky and his M.A. (1977) Ph.D. (1984) from Louisiana State
University. He was the manager of
the Port Hudson (1978-1982) and
Camp Moore (1982-1986) Historic
Sites in Louisiana and taught at
Southeastern Louisiana University
(1985-1996). He was a tenured
full professor when he resigned to
marry a native of Chicago, where he
currently resides. The 2013 recipient
of the Nevins-Freeman Award,
he is a past president of the Baton
Rouge Civil War Round Table. His
publications include Port Hudson,
C o n f e d e r a t e
Bastion on the
Mississippi (1987),
two volumes
of Confederate
Generals in the
Trans-Mississippi
(2013, 2015), and,
To Succeed or Perish: The Diaries of
Sergeant Edmund Trent Eggleston,
1st Mississippi Light Artillery
Regiment, CSA (2015), which won
the 2016 General Basil W. Duke
Literary Award. A third volume of
Confederate Generals in the TransMississippi
will be out in 2018. He
recently finished a history of Port
Hudson Civil War photographs and
is writing biographies of Richard
Heron Anderson and David Glasgow
Farragut.