Nowhere in the annals of United States military history is there a more tragic; yet valorous; story than that of the Army of Tennessee. Unlike its companion fighting unit; the Army of Northern Virginia which was commanded throughout the Civil War by one of the great military figures of all time; Robert E. Lee; the history of the Army of Tennessee is one of ever-changing commanders; of bickering and wrangling among its leaders; and a discouraging succession of disappointments and might-have-beens.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. One of only a handful of general histories of American PoloniaBy TomPolish Americans: An Ethnic Community by Dr. James Pula (1995); one of American Polonia's preeminent scholars; is a short (146 pages of text) but well-researched and smartly written survey of the history of Poles in America; from colonial times to the 1990s. Back in 1995 Pula wasn't overly optimistic regarding the future of American Polonia. The flight from the ethnic Polish urban neighborhoods to suburbia following the Second World War was a crippling blow. Today an ever-decreasing number of the old parishes and organizations struggle to hang on as succeeding generations succumb to assimilation and move farther from their ethnic immigrant roots in terms of physical distance; self-identification; and interest.There are only a handful of general histories of American Polonia. In addition to this book there are A History of the Polish Americans by John J. Bukowczyk (2007) and Polish Americans by Helena Znaniecki Lopata (1994). Pula mentions the infamous 1987 Blejwas-Milosz exchange published in the New York Times where the poet defended his remarks regarding the "incredible cultural crudeness of Polish Americans." That was certainly a "crude" and insulting generalization but wouldn't it be reasonable to suggest that one outcome of the relatively weak regard for higher scholastics within the communities of the "za chlebem" immigrants and their children is the small number of Polish American histories? Buffalo; New York once had several very large Polish neighborhoods (including the mammoth East Side) but not one scholarly history of Buffalo Polonia has ever been written.
