On Mar 7, 9:21=A0pm, calvin wrote:
> On Mar 7, 7:55=A0pm, tomcervo wrote:
>
> >http://www.amazon.com/My-Confession-Recollections-Samuel-Chamberlain/...
>
> > It was a reasonably popular work of history when it was first first
> > published--it was even excerpted in LIFE, including some of
> > Chamberlain's illustrations. Yes, Judge Holden, in color.
> > McCarthy may have seen it there first, and let it roil around for
> > twenty years or so. I came across it second hand; Glanton was a
> > character in one of the Flashman novels.
>
> > How do you film it? Lay off the funny effects--pretend you're Budd
> > Boetticher, and just shoot the thing on the page. It is fantastic, but
> > not even McCarthy would have dared to invent Chamberlain's actual
> > fate.
>
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chamberlain
>
> All I've been able to find about his death is that he
> died in Massachusetts in 1908:
>
> http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/scalpin/heads.html
"During the Civil War, he commanded the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry,
an all African American unit, and rose to the rank of brigadier
general.
After settling in Massachusetts with his family, Chamberlain became
well-known for his charming paintings, which consist largely of
landscapes and battle scenes concerning the Mexican-American war."
He also served as a prison warden noted for humane treatment of
inmates. Like I said, you can't make this stuff up. |