They Could Have Led: Reynolds and McPherson, and the Loves They Lost
Among the officers killed during the Civil War were two of the most promising generals, in both the Eastern and Western theaters of the war: John Fulton Reynolds and James Birdseye McPherson. Both generals were among the most prominent leaders in the Union army and seemed destined for even greater things, until their tragic deaths at Gettysburg and Atlanta, respectively. This talk looks briefly at the lives and deaths of these two largely forgotten figures, but also at the loves they left behind, in an attempt to give a more personal glimpse of the types of losses suffered during the Civil War.

Mr. George Melrod
George Melrod graduated Harvard University, but has been a student of the Civil War all of his life. Over the last 30 years he has written various screenplays and has written extensively about art and culture for numerous magazines, from Art & Antiques, and Sculpture, to VOGUE, and Los Angeles. For over a decade until 2017, he was the editor of art ltd. magazine, which covered contemporary art in California and the Western U.S. He still spends much of his free time reading about the Civil War, and writing historical fiction engaging the human interest stories, and “What Ifs,” of the Civil War.