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Shame upon TIME'S book reviewer for attributing to scholarly Historian Lonn's Reconstruction in Louisiana [TIME, Nov. 27] TIME'S error in referring to "Negro Governor Warmoth...
Bloodhound and Ant. An ordinary woman-or man-might have abandoned this recondite search in despair. But the genuine scholar is indefatigable-a combination of bloodhound and ant. Ella Lonn did not forget the problem of the colonial agent. But before returning to it she produced four other books-all scholarly tomes of the kind which are published obscurely but become indispensable source books for other scholars and for popular writers...
...middle 60s, unmarried, friendly, animated, Dr. Lonn still lives in Baltimore, is working on a book about foreigners in the Union Army. She gives some 25 lectures a year, is one of the editors of the Journal of Southern History, serves many a worthy committee and cause. The quality of her writing and the originality of her subjects have kept her books well above the level of run-of-the-mill Ph.D. dissertations...
...bullet-headed General Phil Sheridan) remained in occupation until 1877-is invaluable. To plain readers it is a collection of facts which their histories have neglected to give them-including a brilliant sketch of the Negro Governor Warmoth, who was only 26 when he took office. Like Dr. Lonn's next painful subject-Desertion During the Civil War-the book is gall & wormwood to romanticists of the Old South...
While Dr. Lonn was digging up the facts for Desertion During the Civil War, she discovered her closest approach to a popular subject. This was salt. Something strange and terrible happened to the people in the Southern states when the northern blockade deprived them of salt. The 9,000,000 Confederates had used 300,000,000 Ibs. of salt a year, most of it in curing bacon. Humans were weakened through lack of salt in their diet, and Lee's horses suffered hoof and tongue diseases. Determinedly after the subject, Dr. Lonn spent five years studying the archives...