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Baron Munchausen Redux
(John Marquardt, The Abbeville Institute) – As I wrote in my 2015 Abbeville article, a century prior to the War of Secession, Rudolf Rase, a German pseudo-scientist and notorious swindler, wrote a book entitled “Baron Munchausen’s Narratives of His Marvelous Travels and Campaigns in Russia.” Those fictitious accounts were loosely based on the tall tales told by ab actual German nobleman, Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchausen, who served in the Russian cavalry during Tsar Peter the Great’s Eighteenth Century wars with Turkey and Persia. A hundred years later, a young American student who claimed to have been born and raised near Louisville, Kentucky, William Gillespie Stevenson, wrote an almost equally colorful narrative of his incredible experiences while forcibly serving in various branches of the Confederate armed forces during 1861 and 1862.
Stevenson’s book “Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army,” was published in New York in 1862, and quickly became a best-seller in the North. During the War, some of Stevenson’s more lurid accounts were used in publications like “Harper’s Weekly” to demean the Confederacy and some it is leaders, such as his depiction of Lieutenant General and Episcopal Bishop Leonidas Polk as being addicted to liquor and profanity. After the War, the book was also used in such wartime anthologies as the 1901 “Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon” by Ferdinand Daniel and two years later in John Gordon’s “Reminiscences of the Civil War.”
Since then, the book has continued to be republished a number of times, both under its original title and as “The Reluctant Rebel,” as well as a French edition, “Treize Mois Dans L’Armée Des Rebelles.” In addition, the book has been cited as reference material in a number of historical…
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