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John Trumbull
Oil on canvas, 12' x 18'
Commissioned 1817; purchased 1822; placed 1826
[Capitol]Rotunda
The surrender of British General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York, on October 17, 1777, was a turning point in the Revolutionary War, for it prevented the British from dividing New England from the rest of the colonies. The central figure is the American General Horatio Gates, who refused to take the sword offered by General Burgoyne, and, treating his former foe as a gentleman, invited him into his tent. All of the figures in the scene are portraits of specific officers. Trumbull planned this outdoor scene to contrast with Declaration of Independence beside it.
Forrest had a intuitive sense of tactics. He had the charisma to get the best out of his troops. West of the Mississippi there was a lesser known but equally effective calvary officer, General Joseph Orville 'Jo' Shelby. He too suffered from having to be the subordinate of incompetents. At Wilson's Creek, Lexington, Pea Ridge and during Price's retreat after the Battle of Westport and many other actions his 'Iron Brigade' performed magnificently. They never surrendered. At the end of the war he buried his war diaries and sunk his brigade's flags in the Rio Grande and led his men into Mexico where he offered his services in the war with Maximillian. They were refused and they then disbanded and slipped back into the US. Jo Shelby spent the rest of his life in politics and business. He is buried along with over one hundred of his men just two blocks away from where I live in Kansas City under the largest Confederate memorial west of the Mississippi.
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Didn't Nathan Bedford Forrest found that"men's"club that used yo count Robert Byrd among it's members?