Disappointing at best, rate it as zero stars.
The first disappointment of this book is that one would expect the book to cover the whole of the Civil War years, but it does not, it basically covers only the last year. The second disappointment is that the book is actually quite short with only 160 pages of actual text with another quarter of the book as notes. The third, and maybe the worst disappointment, is that the author is obviously one of the weeping losers of the lost cause. In the South at that time, there were MANY pro-union contenders and the author doesn't even mention them, he discounts them as if they never existed. The fact that East Tennessee was basically pro-union seems to have bypassed this fellow. Nearly everywhere in the book, the soldiers are always seeming to have higher morale than they did yesterday no matter what befalls them. The author exaggerates the morale and fails to accurately judge the depression of citizen and soldier alike. I would not buy this book had I not already bought it.
