I was once told that Ludwell Johnson, who taught the “Civil War” course at The College of William and Mary for several decades, ended the class with a pictorial “proof” of the superiority of Confederate generals over their U.S. counterparts. He supposedly presented a slide show that compared the hideously ugly mugs of all those Union Army generals like the ones in Lew’s blog, to the more handsome Confederate generals like Robert E. Lee.

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