"Bloody Promenade" by Stephen Cushman

I found Stephen Cushman’s poetry first, and then I discovered he wrote about the Civil War as well. 

Cushman is a professor of English at the University of Virginia. He’s known for his seven collections of poetry and two books of literary criticism, Fictions of Form in American Poetry and William Carlos Williams and the Meanings of Measure. 

 

But when he was a child, he was given a book about the American Civil War. It was The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (1960), with a narrative by noted Civil War historian Bruce Catton. The book became the key that unlocked a lifelong interest in the war, to the point where he’s published three books about it – The Generals’ Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today, Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War, and Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle.

To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.

Some Wednesday Readings

 

“Trouble Him a Little Longer”: Morgan’s Raiders in Bardstown, Kentucky – Caroline Davis at Emerging Civil War.

 

The Surrender of Port Hudson – Sean Michael Chick at Emerging Civil War.

 

A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime by John Banks.