Customer Review: This is an extremely interesting account about the court martial and rehabilitation of General William Fitz Porter. Porter was one of the ablest generals of the early Civil War. He had two disadvantages-1) he was seen as loyal to George Mc Clellan and 2) he served under a commander who lost the... more info
Customer Review: This isn't a long book and in some ways that works to its disadvantage because the botched second battle of Bull Run was complicated. There were no grand sweeps around the enemy's flank, like Jackson's at Chancellorsville. There was no single outright blunder like Burnside's at Frederickburg, no... more info
Customer Review: I enjoyed reading Grandpa Scruggs' account of his experiences in Company K, Holcombe Legion of South Carolinians fighting for their state's freedom from the tyranny of the Union. The format of night time stories told by Grandpa Scruggs to his grandchildren kept a dramatic tension in the book that... more info
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