On May 9, 1846, Second Lieutenant Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne,
United States Army, fell in the battle of Resaca de la Palma during
the war with Mexico. Dead at twenty-three in a remote desert, his
promise outweighing his accomplishments, Chadbourne slid into
obscurity. But his lapse was not immediate, nor was it complete;
clues to Chadbourne lay scattered about the historical
landscape.
"Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne" is Jim W. Corder's account of his
obsessive search for information about this soldier, whose name he
first read on a historical marker beside a highway in Texas. A
thoughtful meditation on the connectedness of history and the
possibilities of recovering and understanding the past, the book
reveals as much about Corder's literary and historiographical
preoccupations as it does about the life of his subject. Rather
than order his material into a linear, chronological narrative,
Corder presents it in much the same sequence and form as it came to
him. The effect is to dramatize the historical process and allow
the very details that Corder collects to reveal Chadbourne to the
reader. Who was Chadbourne, and can we ever really know? If Corder
has any answers, they lie in his subtext of uncertainty.
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