Reviews
“For this anthology of Civil War leaders writings, editor Thomsen has ferreted out revealing and informative pieces that can’t be plucked off the average bookshelf, such as Jefferson Davis’s first inaugural address and two of Lincoln’s 1861 policy statements. Plunging onto the field, he includes an excerpt from John Mosby’s memoirs about the delights of being a Confederate Robin Hood who got to keep the loot and Captain Abner Doubleday’s account of his own third day at Gettsyburg. George McClellan shows no awareness of how his own failures prevented the execution of a fine plan to quash Lee’s army, and Lew Wallace tells the story of his command at Monocacy Junction, Virginia, in one of the most obscure decisive battles in American history …Fine, readable fodder for Civil War mavens” —Booklist
