Ludwell H. Johnson III, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Ludwell H. Johnson III

Professor Ludwell Johnson (1927-2017) earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and taught American History at the College of William and Mary for thirty-five years. Professor Johnson authored many essays and book reviews and is the author of North against South: The American Iliad, 1848-1877 and Red River Campaign: Politics and Cotton in the Civil War.

Should We Pass Judgment on the Past?

By Ludwell H. Johnson III|2022-05-05T14:53:46-05:00August 23rd, 2017|Categories: Civil War, History|

Having grown up in the capital of the Confederacy in a family riddled with unreconstructed rebels, I was always sensitive to these imputations of inferiority directed at the South and Southerners: my section and my people. Although I felt in my heart that something must be wrong, that we could not have been that bad, [...]