2nd Saturday Civil War Series: Wise vs Floyd – Robert E. Lee’s Feuding Generals, with Hunter Lesser

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279
Meeting ID: 937 057 9279

This is the riotous tale of two former Virginia governors; old political rivals who upend Confederate efforts to reclaim the western counties of that state in 1861. Generals Henry Wise and John Floyd squabble like schoolboys – even as Union forces march to annihilate them! Robert E. Lee is no match for their antics, leading to the loss of West Virginia and a scandal that stretches to the Confederate capitol in Richmond.

Hunter Lesser, author, archaeologist, interpreter, and preservationist, enjoys sharing forgotten tales from history that offer lessons for the digital age. A member of the West Virginia Sesquicentennial Commission, his books include Rebels at the Gate: Lee & McClellan on the Front Lines of a Divided Nation (a History Book Club main selection), Civil War Oddities of West Virginia, The First Campaign, and The Cambridge History of the American Civil War, coauthored for Cambridge University Press.