Teophilus or Kenner?
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 3:56 pm
I hardly know where to post this, since the db for this game is notoriously not to be updated, but it doesn't seem appropriate for the putative ACW2 wishlist. I was looking around for pictures of some of the minor generals in the database, and discovered not just new pictures, but new generals. For modders interested in giving some life to their generic cardboard 3-1-1 generals, I thought to share the info and an interesting resource link.
The resource is http://www.sonofthesouth.net/ , and among other delights it has facsimiles of Harper's Weekly for the entire war. Harper's is a wonderful resource for on-the-spot information (and disinformation), and as an illustrated weekly, contains many fantastic pictures, sketches, etchings, and photos, of CW personalities, battles, and scenes.
In this magazine, I ran across a bio of US Brigadier General Kenner Garrard, a cousin of Teophilus (or Theophilus) Garrard, who masquerades in the ACW database as "E. Food." Kenner had an interesting war, finishing as commander of a division of cavalry in Sherman's army. If one wanted to give the US another cavalry commander, he'd be a useful pick. In fact, one might just as well go ahead and substitute him for Robert B. Mitchell, who appears TWICE in the database, as a generic commander in the '61 pool, and a cavalry commander later on. Both Kenner and Theo have pictures on the 'Net, Kenner's coming from an issue of Harper's in 1865. Since one can never have enough bewhiskered generals (on either side), I plan on updating my own db with the assistance of this great resource.
-- Mal
The resource is http://www.sonofthesouth.net/ , and among other delights it has facsimiles of Harper's Weekly for the entire war. Harper's is a wonderful resource for on-the-spot information (and disinformation), and as an illustrated weekly, contains many fantastic pictures, sketches, etchings, and photos, of CW personalities, battles, and scenes.
In this magazine, I ran across a bio of US Brigadier General Kenner Garrard, a cousin of Teophilus (or Theophilus) Garrard, who masquerades in the ACW database as "E. Food." Kenner had an interesting war, finishing as commander of a division of cavalry in Sherman's army. If one wanted to give the US another cavalry commander, he'd be a useful pick. In fact, one might just as well go ahead and substitute him for Robert B. Mitchell, who appears TWICE in the database, as a generic commander in the '61 pool, and a cavalry commander later on. Both Kenner and Theo have pictures on the 'Net, Kenner's coming from an issue of Harper's in 1865. Since one can never have enough bewhiskered generals (on either side), I plan on updating my own db with the assistance of this great resource.
-- Mal