Sold – Gen. William T. Sherman Endorses the Count de Paris’ Famous “History of the Civil War in America,” Saying It is “Very Good Indeed”
Sherman's approval was cited by the Southern Historical Society as proof positive that the work had an anti-Confederate bias.
The Count de Paris was the grandson of King Louis-Philippe and a claimant to the French throne. A historian, journalist and outspoken democrat, he volunteered to serve as a Union officer in the Civil War, and was appointed as an assistant adjutant general with the rank of captain. As such, he served...
The Count de Paris was the grandson of King Louis-Philippe and a claimant to the French throne. A historian, journalist and outspoken democrat, he volunteered to serve as a Union officer in the Civil War, and was appointed as an assistant adjutant general with the rank of captain. As such, he served on the staff of the Gen. George B. McClellan and distinguished himself during the Peninsular Campaign. After the war, wrote a highly regarded multi-volume set of books entitled "History of the Civil War in America," written, as he said, "for the instruction of the European public…I trust that my account of these great events will, at least, not provoke a too bitter controversy; for if I have been obliged to judge and to censure, I have done so without any personal or partial fueling against any one, with a sincere respect for truth and a keen sense of the responsibility which I assumed. I hope…that I have tried to make Europe understand the magnitude of the strife which divided the New World, the extent of the sacrifices borne by the American people, and the heroism displayed by both sides on the bloody fields of battle." Despite this hope, southerns claimed the book had a distinctly pro-Union bias.
General Sherman approved of the history, as he related directly to the American publisher of the title. Autograph Letter Signed, on his Headquarters Army of the United States letterhead, St. Louis, November 27, 1875, to the book's publisher Joseph H. Coates & Co., which had sent Sherman an advance copy. "I thank you for the early copy of Vol. I of the Count de Paris' book. I find it very good indeed, and will be glad to have the other volumes as fast as issued. The bill will be paid any time; I prefer to pay for it, as I have already received gratuitously the French Edition." Sherman in another communication endorsed the book for "its spirit of fairness and candor," which quotation was used by the Southern Historical Society as proof positive that the work had an anti-Confederate bias. It is also interesting that Sherman, having received a free copy in French, now insisted on what he saw as the propriety of paying for his copy in English.
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