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Monday, February 21, 2011

General Percival

General Percival:The generals looked through the pink mist, with its stifling Strait floor blown-up, sweat stinging the eyes. There, against the gray steel lighter gray of dawn, were the heights of Johor, there lay the enemy. When would it attack? And how in the name of God, had he got here so quickly? The East was suddenly much more – and more painfully – mysterious.
General PercivalHis role after his presidency of the secession of Virginia may also have earned him a rebuke. Lynchburg Museum System Director Doug Harvey also noted the city’s anti-secession sentiment before the Civil War. Read More General Percival