Tag: last in their class

  • Short Takes

    Came across a nice web site about James S. Robbins’ Last In Their Class: Custer, Pickett, and the Goats of West Point. Some great stories there—did you know Jeff Davis was court-martialed and convicted as a cadet (sentence remitted due to prior good behavior)? Or that Henry Heth and Ambrose Burnside were roommates? Burnside was […]