Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter (William Marvel - UA) cup and the contents of a

and the contents of a never-before-seen contemporary scrapbook to explain how the country descended into civil war

In the mid-1700s the English captain of a trading ship that made runs between England and the Virginia colony fathered a child by an enslaved woman living near Williamsburg

but to make peace

000 Union and Confederate soldiers were still in the field bringing war with them as they moved across the state’s verdant heartland

Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter (William Marvel - UA) cup and the contents of aRadical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter (Civil War America) by William Marvel Born into a distinguished military family, Fitz John Porter (1822 1901) was educated at West Point and breveted for bravery in the war with Mexico. Already a well respected officer at the outset of the Civil War, as a general in the Union army he became a favorite of George B. McClellan, who chose him to command the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac.