JMSmith posted: " I was the other day reading a report written in 1854 by John Pope, an American military officer who, six years later, fell from grace by bungling the Second Battle of Bull Run. In 1854 Pope was a mere Brevet Captain with the Corp of Topographical Engine" The Orthosphere
I was the other day reading a report written in 1854 by John Pope, an American military officer who, six years later, fell from grace by bungling the Second Battle of Bull Run. In 1854 Pope was a mere Brevet Captain with the Corp of Topographical Engineers, ordered to west Texas to reconnoiter a southern route for the Pacific railroad. I was most interested in Pope's description of the west Texas landscape, which is everywhere acute and eloquent, but was also taken by his unvarnished description of the aboriginal peoples
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