First Inning Artworks

Nathan Bedford Forrest is one of the most interesting and vexing characters to come out of the Civil War. He was a soldier of uncommon courage and undoubted genius, but his history of slave-trading before the war and association with the Ku Klux Klan after the war — as well as his presence at the Ft. Pillow massacre — does little to endear him to the modern age. Yet he has defenders, many of whom are adamant about his symbolizing the best of the Confederacy.

I drew this pen and ink to accompany a review of a book by Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill titled The Myth of Nathan Bedford Forrest on The Writing Wright.

This pen and ink drawing of John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost of the Confederate Army, was done to accompany a review of The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend by Paul Ashdown and Ed Caudill. The review appears on the Writing Wright blog.

A short audio interview with author Ed Caudill is included with the review.

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John Singleton Mosby
pen and ink
11 x 14 Bristol board

Copyright 2008 by Jim Stovall
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