An interview with Christian Keller, author of The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy.
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Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are perhaps two of the most iconic Confederate figures and their relationship has been extolled and studied from the Civil War years to the present. Culminating in the resounding victory at Chancellorsville, after which Jackson lost his life, the partnership between Jackson and Lee has become stuff of legend and myth, as well as historical significance. In The Great Partnership Christian Keller examines the relationship between Lee and Jackson during the military campaigns of 1862 and 1863, the contemporary reaction to Jackson’s death, and how Jackson’s absence affected Lee and the rest of the army during the Gettysburg campaign. Keller analyzes Lee and Jackson through the lens of command and leadership and carefully examines the historical record to pull the historical narrative out of the myth that has grown around these two men.
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Panelists were Clayton J. Butler (University of Virginia), “‘We Are True Blue’: White Unionist Regiments in the Deep South during the Civil War”; Stefanie Greenhill (University of Kentucky), “‘Yankee Skedadlers’: Unionism, Displacement, and Native Northerners who fled from the Confederacy”; and J. Matthew Ward (Louisiana State University), “‘To Rid the Community of All Suspicious Persons’: The Confederate Community in Civil War Louisiana.”
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This is a book very relevant to our times. Over the last few years Civil War historians have taken center stage in the contest over Confederate memory as communities have debated the place of Confederate flags, names, and monuments in our society. It is a work that speaks well to how history intersects with the society that is remembering it, how that changes over time and is shaped by current social forces, and the role of the historian in navigating historical memory and reality.
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