Ron Chernow Quote
Predictably, northern military units predominated, but the presence of Confederate soldiers touched onlookers. It was quite a sight to see the Stonewall Brigade [march] up Fifth Avenue with their drums marked Staunton, Va., one said. They wore the grey, with a black and brass helmet. There were several companies of Virginia and Southern troops.148 Contingents of black veterans were liberally represented among the sixty thousand soldiers, supplemented by eighteen thousand veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Ron Chernow
Predictably, northern military units predominated, but the presence of Confederate soldiers touched onlookers. It was quite a sight to see the Stonewall Brigade [march] up Fifth Avenue with their drums marked Staunton, Va., one said. They wore the grey, with a black and brass helmet. There were several companies of Virginia and Southern troops.148 Contingents of black veterans were liberally represented among the sixty thousand soldiers, supplemented by eighteen thousand veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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Chernow won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2011 American History Book Prize for his 2010 book Washington: A Life. He is also the recipient of the National Book Award for Nonfiction for his 1990 book The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. His biographies of Alexander Hamilton (2004) and John D. Rockefeller (1998) were both nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards. His biography of Hamilton inspired the popular Hamilton musical, which Chernow worked on as a historical consultant. For another book, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family, he was awarded the 1993 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing. As a freelance journalist, Chernow has written over sixty articles for various national publications.