The Dahlgren Controversy

As today is the 150th anniversary of the inglorious end of Judson “Kil-Cavalry” Kilpatrick’s raid on Richmond, and with it the start of the Dahlgren Affair, I thought I would share my thoughts on the latter. Briefly, the Dahlgren Affair stems from the alleged discovery of documents on the corpse of Ulric Dahlgren, a Union […]