Lecture, The Metropolitan New York Chapter of the Victorian Society in America

When author David H. Jones discovered the compelling story of brothers Clifton and William Prentiss, who fought on opposite sides in the American Civil War and are buried side by side in Green-Wood Cemetery, he recognized it as one that had to be told. The brothers’ story exemplifies the intensity of the conflict as experienced by 19 t h century Americans, as well as the culture and beliefs that held sway during the Civil War. Walt Whitman wrote about William Prentiss at Washington, D.C.’s Armory Hospital in Memoranda During the War. Mr. Jones’s recent research took him to the swamps of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, where he rediscovered the lost location of a pivotal event described in his book.

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