Reply #22: Generals In Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War

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William Styple, Editor, Generals In Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War

William Styple was interviewed about the book he edited, Generals In Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War, published by Belle Grove Publishing Co. 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. Mr. 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. William Styple was interviewed 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 and that these notes may lead to new information about some important civil war events. His book is a collection of interview transcripts compiled from the original interview notes. Mr. Styple showed documents, sketches, and artworks from the Kelly collection.