[Fast Moving Angel]

Not many people today know of Judah Benjamin.

You beat me to it. Thanks for mentioning Judah Benjamin - my favorite and most fascinating character of the period. As with Shelby Foote, I so wish I could have met Judah Benjamin. I've read everything on him that I can get my hands on -- and it all raises more questions than it answers.

[Sea Parrot]

At the end of the civil war Benjamin escaped (this was fascinating reading)to England where he had a brilliant legal career, became very rich, was Queen's council and some of the papers he wrote are still referred to in British law today.