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Having read Shrike58's review of Earl J. Hess' Lee's Tar Heels, I ordered and read this excellent brigade history. Probably one of the finest I have ever read. It is a splendid account of the men, the officers, their life in the army and their battles, as well as some unique vignettes (such as a short term enlistment of a woman and her husband, struggling Quakers and the famous 26th NC band).
Most brigade or unit histories fail because they try to narrate too much background This history stays close to the men and their struggles and troubles (Getting an adequate supply of shoes plagued the brigade for a long time - until they acquired shoemaking equipment.).
Robert E. Lee was no metrosexual. So, if you want to preserve your traditional image of Lee, stop reading now. Otherwise, a detail will be burned into your brain. You have been warned.
Page 196: "Lee was 'burly and beefy and fat' with a 'large and full and round' form ... (Soldier) Benjamin Justice was close enough to observe that 'a bunch of coarse, bristly, black hair grows seemingly out of the orifice of each ear'."
The book is filled with other great nuggets about this brigade which specialized in costly charges (including at Gettysburg on both the first and third July).
Most brigade or unit histories fail because they try to narrate too much background This history stays close to the men and their struggles and troubles (Getting an adequate supply of shoes plagued the brigade for a long time - until they acquired shoemaking equipment.).
Robert E. Lee was no metrosexual. So, if you want to preserve your traditional image of Lee, stop reading now. Otherwise, a detail will be burned into your brain. You have been warned.
Page 196: "Lee was 'burly and beefy and fat' with a 'large and full and round' form ... (Soldier) Benjamin Justice was close enough to observe that 'a bunch of coarse, bristly, black hair grows seemingly out of the orifice of each ear'."
The book is filled with other great nuggets about this brigade which specialized in costly charges (including at Gettysburg on both the first and third July).