Is in a living relationship with everything else. Again and again, hopelessly knotty subjects (for example, Lincoln's relations with the radical Republicans) are painlessly made clear. Lee was dealt his first defeat,Īnd how West Virginia got its statehood. (these children's complaints are killers for adults), ''measles and mumps'' has a slightly ludicrous ring precisely because of that I shall never again forget how Robert E. George McClellan took it in hand,īut I had never heard that in 1861, in the western Virginia theater of war, the Confederates suffered as badly because their farm-boy recruits went down with measles and mumps, to which they had never before been exposed. I was aware that the Army of the Potomac suffered shocking ill health (largely from bad sanitation) until Gen. Use precise details to bring the past, even the overfamiliar past, to vivid life again. Of these the greatest is surely his literary skill. I can think of nothing else to complain about. And there never was such a place as the ''Kingdom of Palermo.'' South doth protest too much'' is a horrible solecism. The maps are accurate and intelligent, but they are printed on a gray ground that makes the gray lines and arrows of the Southern forces hard to see. I am conscientiously bound to report that it is not quite perfect. I was swept away,įeeling as if I had never heard the saga before. It is comprehensive yet succinct, scholarly without being pedantic, eloquent but unrhetorical. It may actually be the best ever published. Treatment of its subject I have ever come across. It is therefore a particular pleasure to report that ''Battle Cry of Freedom'' easily overwhelms all such doubts. States history, one of the most written about in the history of the world. The Civil War is the most worked-over topic in United No doubt someone in the Library of Congress knows exactly how many books have been published on the Civil War, but everyone knows, without counting, why a new one is to be greeted somewhat warily. Section 7, Column 3 Book Review Deskīy HUGH BROGAN Hugh Brogan is the author of ''The Longman History of the United States of America.''īATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM The Civil War Era. February 14, 1988, Sunday, Late City Final Edition
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