He knew he was looking good. It has been said that one of the best ways to understand someone is to understand what he cares about. Well, much has been said, and a lot more will be said, about the many interests and passions of John Sturdivant. One of John s chief interests is often mentioned, but little examined. If you visit today the places where the Civil War raged in all its fury almost 14 decades ago, you find an eerie silence.
Old battlegrounds seem like places frozen in time and space.
Yet there remains a sense that the fury that once was there still survives, somewhere. An impression that this eerie silence, where once upon a time thousands struggled and died, is only a veil behind which the great scenes of history still move. John loved history. He was a Civil War buff. And his absence feels a bit like walking on one of those hallowed grounds where our nation was reborn.