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A Place for Theodore by L.G. Williams 11 Sep 11
Why did The New York Herald call the battle of Whitehall, North Carolina, a “consoling contrast” to the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, even though both were tragedies?
Small—and often forgotten—though it was, the Whitehall battle is replete with puzzles and political twists; the disappearance of Color-bearer Theodore Parkman exemplifies the mystery. Parkman's cousin, Robert Gould Shaw, famous as the leader of the 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment, died on 18 July 1863 at Fort Wagner, S.C., and, like Theodore, was buried in an unmarked grave.
“Whitehall” itself is not invisible. The name is inscribed on prominent Civil War memorials in Boston including Kings Chapel and Harvard University's Memorial Hall. A small battle, but one that likely involved the largest number of Bostonians in the smallest battle space since Bunker Hill. Whitehall, now Seven Springs, N.C., is located ten miles east of Goldsboro, N.C. on the south side of the Neuse River. The Whitehall battlefield, about a half-mile square, is one of the best preserved in the U.S. Some say it was deliberately forgotten; rumors persist that it includes a hidden trench packed with bones of Union soldiers killed by their own artillery. Only a few signs note the battle. The area in which it stands is sparsely populated Can more research, using the large number of diaries, letters, news articles and official reports written about this battle, enable skillful computer searchers to find and correlate enough information to decipher the mysteries of this battle?
What was the fate of the civilians in Whitehall, where is the trench, why did Captain Ransom change his artillery report 16 years later? Is there a relationship between the battle and the Emancipation Proclamation?
A Place for Theodore provides the elements. Readers who care about the greatest conflict in American history can learn for themselves some answers to a continuing and haunting puzzle.
Put your talents to work, solve this puzzle, and release the souls of these missing soldiers.
Electronic Edition 2011 - ISBN 978-0-9656484-5-5
A Place for Theodore eBook LG Williams
Everyone is aware of friendly-fire and "collateral" deaths in war. The Mai Lai massacre in Viet Nam is the most famous. Incidents from the Gulf War are still in the news. Did a President of Harvard help cover-up the death of a Harvard student? Major George Williams has written an interesting tale using historical documents and the soldier's perspective of war. This book is a unique look at an overlooked incident during America's Civil War.Product details
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A Place for Theodore eBook LG Williams Reviews
Very detailed description of this battle with very thorough documentation. All of the pages of this inexpensive book were used to the fullest. I felt like I had gotten my moneys worth.Just like being there and some thought provoking conclusions were presented.
Not quite a review, just a quick comment. My great-great grandfather was an Orderly Sergeant in the Massachusetts 45th. He befriended two fellow soldiers Theodore Parkman, and Alfred Winsor. So great was his respect for these soldier-comrades that he named his two children after them. My great uncle was named after Theodore Parkman. Imagine my surprise, when I found this book!
Review of A Place for Theodore by Prudence Steiner
The writing of history is difficult. If you're writing about someone or something already well known you face a hoard of kibitzers who question every statement that doesn't fit their preconceptions of the case. If you're writing about something unknown, well, where do you begin? How do you know what to look for? How do you know you have found everything? And how do you know how to organize what you do have?
George Williams, in A Place for Theodore, has confronted both problems. Well-known is Charles William Eliot, President of Harvard, notable New Englander from a notable family. Loyal Harvard alumni and conventional historians of higher education already "know" all about him. Virtually unknown is Theodore Parkman, chemist, soldier, who was killed and, literally, lost in a small and complicated Civil War battle at Whitehall, North Carolina in 1862. The intersection of these two lives, the process by which Williams has accounted for what is known to have happened, his speculations about what might have happened and why, form the substance of this paperback (Holly Two Leaves Paperback, ISBN 0-9656484-0-0).
Don't expect a tidy narrative. That's not how historians work. Pieces--letters, photos, newspaper clippings, old bullets, public proclamations and private denials--swim into the net or are dredged up from murky corners in an unsystematic way. With each new piece, historians must revise their first ideas about what happened, their earlier interpretations of the causes. Most published histories appear after years of research and speculation have refined and polished them into coherence. Williams has chosen another method. For the most part the book brings us the raw materials in a very rough chronological order. Facing pages may include the author's narrative, original materials, photos or diagrams, in an assemblage of elements that is hard for the casual reader to follow but that accurately and vividly evokes the very process by which historians gather and sort out information. Williams' favorite typographical elements seem to be the question mark and the italic; hardly a page appears without several of both. Ordinarily these devices raise suspicion how much of this book is true? Why is the writer so insistent? Is he right?
But this is not an ordinary book; in the best sense, it is not even a finished book. Rather, it shows the process of writing history, and leaves us, the readers, with a sense of the materials and an eagerness to push on, to learn more about Theodore Parkman and why historians are still looking for him. As a former teacher of research techniques, I commend A Place for Theodore to other teachers as well as to Civil War buffs. You may be irritated, you may disagree with the author's tone and conclusions, but Williams's book will give you an unusual collection of materials as well as valuable insights into the slipperiness of "facts."
12 November 1997
A Place for Theodore won a Willie Parker Peace History Book Award from The North Carolina Society of Historians on Nov. 1, 1997. Mr. L.G. Williams also won two other awards for associated projects.
Everyone is aware of friendly-fire and "collateral" deaths in war. The Mai Lai massacre in Viet Nam is the most famous. Incidents from the Gulf War are still in the news. Did a President of Harvard help cover-up the death of a Harvard student? Major George Williams has written an interesting tale using historical documents and the soldier's perspective of war. This book is a unique look at an overlooked incident during America's Civil War.
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