one of the early prolific historians was edward a. pollard, a richmond journalist who absolutely hated jefferson davis and pollard was writing books almost by the month -- i mean almost as furiously as brian does here. just books vomiting out of edward a. pollard. in which he denounced jefferson davis in very harsh terms especially for his treatment of joe johnston and it's interesting to sit down with pollard's books because a lot of it sounds an awful like joe johnston. i had some pretty good indications that he and johnston spent good time talking to him. he wrote vile things about jefferson davis in his treatment about joe johnston. even some of the northern writers wrote stuff about it. and his main source for writing about the atlanta campaign was edward a. pollard. and greeley said he got his information from johnston, so he knows it must be correct. this would not be the critical thinking one would like among historical writers. johnston also benefited by his early biographers. johnston died in 1891. he had two quick biographies. one

one of the early prolific historians was edward a. pollard richmond journalist who absolutely hated jefferson davis. and pollard was writing books almost by the month. i mean, almost as furiously as brian does here. just books vomiting out of edward a. pollard. in which he denounced jefferson davis in very harsh terms, especially for his treatment of joe johnston. it's interesting to sit down with pollard's books, because a lot of it sounds an 5u68 lot like joe johnston, and i have some pretty good indications that he and johnston spent a good deal of time talking. >>> henry stewart-foot was another one of, member of the confederate congress, wrote things about davis, vile things almost about jefferson davis in his treatment of joe johnston. even some of the northern writers took this up t. one of the early was was horace greeley, the rather ecsentry new york -- wrote on the american conflict. his main source for writing about the atlanta campaign was edward a. pollard. greeley said i think pollard got his information from johnston, so we kno

one of the early prolific historians was edward a. pollardrichmond journalist who absolutely hated jefferson davis and pollard was writing mean, almost as furiously as brian does here. just books vomiting out of edward a. pollard. in which he denounced jefferson davis in very harsh terms especially for his treatment of joe johnston and it's interesting to sit down with pollard's books because a lot of it sounds an awful like joe johnston. i had some pretty good indications that he and johnston spent good time talking. he wrote vile things about jefferson davis in his treatment about joe johnston. even some of the northern writers wrote stuff about it. and his main source for writing about the atlanta campaign was edward a. pollard. and greeley said he got his information from johnston, so he knows it must be correct. this would not be the critical thinking one would like among historical writers. johnston also benefited by his early biographers. johnston died in 1891. he had two quick biographies. one of them by badly t., who a dear good frie