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3 unusual facts about Henry Pleasants


Gabriel von Wayditch

The performance received a negative review from Henry Pleasants, a harsh critic of contemporary music who later wrote a frequently-referenced anti-contemporary music polemic, The Agony of Modern Music.

Henry Pleasants

This scheme is quickly accepted by commanding general Nathan Bedford Forrest.

He is best known for organizing the building of an underground tunnel filled with explosives under the Confederate lines outside Petersburg, Virginia, resulting in the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, an opportunity for Union troops to break the defense of Petersburg.



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