With Civil War on the horizon and bitter feelings growing on both sides, Cowles Atwater made a three-month tour of the South in 1857 to see for himself the cond
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Beloved by the soldiers of the Army of the Potomac, insubordinate to his commander in chief, a master at preparing for war but cautious about engaging, General