John Gibbon: Iron Man of the Army of the Potomac!
A glimpse into the epic life and times of one the Union’s most underrated generals.
Not all of the most remarkable generals in the Civil War were famous or commanded armies. Raised in North Carolina, in a family of slave-owners, John Gibbon stayed loyal to the Union as the rest of his family sided with the South. During the Civil War, he trained and led the celebrated Iron Brigade, held the center of the Union line during Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg, and was prominent at Appomattox. After the war, he was an Indian fighter who rescued the survivors of Little Bighorn and advocated for justice for Native Americans. In many ways, he was a contradiction: a Southerner who chose honor and loyalty to his country over state and family, and whose coolness in the field earned him the deep respect of his peers, while his penchant for finding flaws in underlings, and superiors, caused numerous disputes – and nearly derailed his career. A complex figure with an epic life story emerges in a vivid presentation through a panoply of rich visual imagery and human detail.

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.