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American Civil War
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English-Speaking Peoples (11): Lincoln, Lee, and the Civil War
09
Jan
2023
By Richard M. Langworth
Churchill’s is largely a military account, with sentiments that that surprise some. “We march with Lee and Jackson, with Stuart, with Longstreet, and with Early through autumn woodlands…. Virginia, the proud Founder State…trampled upon, disinherited, impoverished, riven asunder….” Yet Churchill is not pro-Confederacy. His instincts were always with liberty.
Churchill’s Alternative History: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph at Gettysburg
12
Dec
2020
1
By PAUL K. ALKON and THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Experience gave Churchill both a horror of war and the ability to imagine alternate scenarios. In what he called “the after-light,” it is shocking to realize that the worst possible outcome he imagined after the First World War came to be, just two decades later. Contemplating the causes of the war, Churchill with his historic imagination conjured up a scenario which might have prevented it—in 1863. Suppose, he asks us, Lee had won?