Reply #31: Generals In Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War

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Generals In Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War
William Styple, Editor
video link - http://www.booktv.org/ram/feature/1105/btv112605_4.ram

In the late 19th and early 20th century, artist James E. Kelly (1855 to 1933) conducted extensive interviews with over forty union generals of the civil war. Kelly sketched the generals for recreations of famous scenes, and for a series of bronze relief portraits. James Kelly took detailed notes of his conversations and tried unsuccessfully to publish the material as part of a memoir. Book TV interviewed William Styple at the New York Historical Society, where James Kelly's original interview notes and sketches were deposited after his death. Mr. Styple believes that no other historian has looked at the thousands of pages of documents. Some information in these notes may lead to new information about important civil war events. "Generals in Bronze" is a collection of interview transcripts compiled from the original interview notes.

William Styple has edited and written many books about the civil war including, "The Little Bugler", "Writing and Fighting the Civil War: 500 Union Soldier Letters from the Battlefield", and "Writing and Fighting the Confederate War: The Letters of Peter Alexander Confederate War Correspondent." He lives in Kearny, New Jersey and is president of Belle Grove Publishing Company.

Publisher: Belle Grove Publishing Co. 41 Linden Avenue Kearny, NJ 07032