Curtis F. Morgan, Jr. is professor of history at Laurel Ridge Community College in Middletown, Virginia. has taught World and U.S. History at LFCC since August 2000. He earned his PhD in Modern European History from the University of South Carolina in 1998 and is the author of James F. Byrnes, Lucius Clay and American Policy in Germany, 1945-1947. His essay, “‘A Merchandise of Small Wares’: Nathanael Greene’s Northern Apprenticeship, 1775-1780,” recently appeared in the collection General Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution in the South, edited by Greg Massey and Jim Piecuch (Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2012). He has written three entries (“Lord Fairfax,” Nathanael Greene,” and “Winchester, VA”) in the recently-launched Mount Vernon Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington . He is presently working on a military biography of General Nathanael Greene.
Nathanael Greene is rightly remembered as one of the great combat leaders of the American Revolution. But he was also a deep political thinker, a Rhode Island politician before the war who did not hesitate to discuss the broader ramifications of the American Revolution with a wide range of Patriot notables, some of whom never […]
Midway through his two and a half year tour of duty as Quartermaster General of Washington’s army, Nathanael Greene wrote to George Washington: “No body ever heard of a quarter Master in History as such or in relateing any brilliant Action.” A later commander, Erwin Rommel, took a different view. He wrote: “The first essential […]
