Please share the name of the film.

In three instances, the names on the back of the photograph are followed by a question mark, and one person is labeled an “unidentified man.” The list of people in the photo is therefore taken from the article by Franklin Parker.

Left to right standing: General James Connor, General Martin W. Gary, General John Bankhead Magruder, General Robert D. Lilley, General P.G.T. Beauregard, General A.R. Lawton, General Henry A. Wise, General Joseph L. Brent

Left to right seated: Blacque Bey, Turkish Minister to the United States, General Robert E. Lee, Philanthropist George Peabody, Philanthropist W. W. Corcoran, Lawyer James Lyons

It is usually referred to as the “White Sulphur Springs Photograph”.

Nope, I sure don’t. I am just the caretaker of his work. I was not personally involved in it in any way.

Do you know why your dad included George McClellan in this page? He was definitely a traitor to the union despite being a union general. I think your dad was a little confused with his argument that this was a pro-unionist group. Within the northern elite, there was a deep sympathy for the confederacy which was kept in check by junior officers and radical republicans outside of it. Thomas Edward Key, McClellan’s aide de camp (in the way that Cheney was Bush’s aide de camp) even tried to broker a deal with the confederacy to end the war and keep slavery in direct defiance of Abraham Lincoln. There’s a constant pattern of union generals and officials punishing their subordinates for:

– defending themselves against confederate raids. No, I’m not kidding- Nathaniel Lyon mobilizes to defend the St. Louis Armory so that confederates won’t take arms, (reasonable, right?) In retaliation, Sterling Price, a “union” general, defects to the confederacy because of his alleged disgust with insubordination but really he was just upset that his buddies to the south couldn’t get free weapons

-getting water from confederate wells in a place where there was no other source of water (Don Carlos Buell)

Under Buchanan, secretary of state Lewis Cass would send armaments to places the confederates could easily raid. Buchanan would then refuse to send troops to defend these places. The rank and file of the union army were the ones that protected the union. There are a lot of lessons from the US Civil war with regards to US ruling class complicity that apply today.

Lincoln became serious about ending slavery, that made him a threat. Really good research by your father, a shame he’s not around to do more.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins for the reference to the work done by Miss Christensen. She did a very good job.

LOL! No, you’re totally right. As an editor, I appreciate this attention to detail. I’ll put it on my to-do list. 😉