How cool is that?! I can’t imagine hearing him in the flesh. A time when historians managed to be objective and yet sympathetic...true Americans. His trilogy made me a Civil War buff.
It was great. About 700 of us Union re-enactors had marched up the main drag in Richmond to the Capitol. We had a band from the State of Maine in the lead, next was about 100 black re-enactors with bayonets fixed on their rifle muskets lead the rest of troops up to the Capitol. It was quite a show.