#joseph johnston

[maltoux]

im bein normal about it btw.

[todaysdocument]

Letter from Jefferson Davis to General Robert E. Lee Asking Advice on Who Will Replace General Joseph Johnston

Record Group 109: War Department Collection of Confederate RecordsSeries: Jefferson Davis' Papers

Richmond,

July 12' 1864.

To Genl. R. E. Lee

Petersburg, VA.

General Johnston has

failed, and there are strong

indications that he will

abandon Atlanta. He urges

that prisoners should be

removed immediately from

Andersonville. It seems nec-

essary to relieve him at once.

Who should succeed him.

What think you of Hood for

the position.

Jefferson Davis.

[handwritten red ink]

Compared with Original,

Correct copy,

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[joeywoey2]

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[chenaultthevirginian]

statues on display at the Virgini State Capitol.

[zuzahin]

Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston in civilian clothes sometime after the Civil War.

[ihlr]

2013 IHLR Film Fest Jury Prize: Joseph Johnston

Your grandmother’s jewelry box. That drawer in the kitchen. A rusted Folgers can in your father’s workshop. We all have those places where the haphazard artifacts of our lives collect like so much flotsam and jetsam. Rarely do we even see, much less pay attention to these objects, these souvenirs of experience. Yet, this is precisely where Joseph Johnston focuses his lens in Fragments, the winner of the IHLR Jury Prize. The suspense of the wooden box Johnston carries in the video’s opening shots propels us toward the work’s revealing conclusion. Only then do we discover that the actual objects in the box matter less than the larger statement Johnston is making about the disjointed nature of our existence within a world that is itself fragmented. In the sharpest kind of literary irony, Johnston creates coherence even as he points to incoherence. He suggests significance in the seemingly insignificant—pocketknives and baby teeth, that coin machine ring bent from wear. These objects are as particular and personal as the blues Johnston plays, as the art he creates, but, as Joyce and others have said, in those details, there is the universal. In those fragments, there is us.

  The video will be available soon on our website, and look for our special DVD issue next year.