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• W1968278127 abstract "204civil war history Civil War Centennial Series can be applauded. The press has performed a genuine service in making this important and relatively scarce book again available. It is arguable, however, that the press might have performed an even better service by republishing Cooke's sketches as they were originally written. In their original vitality and freshness Cooke's Outlines from the Outpost (their first title) are available only in scattered files of The Southern Illustrated News. They constitute an interesting and important Civil War text that is more than scarce; it is truly rare. Applause must be withheld too from the press's selection of its editor of Wearing of the Gray. Philip Van Doren Stern writes charmingly, but he apparently wastes litde time in research. A little deeper research into the background of Wearing of the Gray would not have been wasted time. The editor would have easily discovered, for example, that the Confederate scout referred to only as Frank S__________ was Frank Stringfellow, subject of two biographies in his own right. He would, even if the text of Cooke's own work had been read witìi care, have realized that die fictional Captain Darrell and the real William Downs Farley were one and the same person. He would have avoided the insertion of at least two errors in the skimpy notes to Cooke's text. He would have known the proper form of the title of Surry of Eagle'sNest . He would have learned that relevant unpublished material is readily available in at least one major library. And he would have produced a far better book. Richard Harwell Chicago, Illinois. Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War. Volume V.: Prelude to Chattanooga. By Kenneth P. Williams. ( New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. Pp. 395. $7.50.) were there an historian's Arlington in which Kenneth P. Williams could rest, I would guess that he would have chosen this phrase as an inscription for his site: The battle is the payoff. In this, the fifth of a projected sevenvolume study of Grant's rise to command, Williams' decade-long battle with the endless obstacles in the way of a broad recreation of the battles of the Civil War has again paid off. The devotion with which he conducted that fight, the investments of time, energy, and thought which he gladly made, have given us a vast picture drawn in infinite detail and executed with noteworthy care. In Lincoln Finds a General, Williams built a monument worthy of his subject and of himself. The method he employed entranced many readers and exacerbated others. For Williams determined against flitting from great battle to great batde. Instead, he filled his chapters with careful descriptions of smaller engagements leading up to and resulting from the climactic combats, and paid perhaps undue attention to logistical elements involved in troop movements and communications. He was convinced that . . . unless one knows about the minor campaigns and operations that were a necessary basis for the great Book Reviews205 campaigns, . . . and about the marches, the railroad and river movements, and about the way the all-important problems of supply were handled, . . . one's knowledge of thewaris pitifully circumscribed. As a result of this scheme, the narrative is complex, demanding close attention on the part of the reader. But no one should be discouraged by the masses of detail which Williams chose to record, however curious he might be as to why the author thought it necessary to comment on the numbers of American towns named Milton. Most of the thickets of detail are more relevant than this, and are worth fighting through for the insights and judgments they contain, and for the flashes of humor, often barbed humor, that enliven the whole. With Williams as an endlessly patient guide, one participates in military actions barely mentioned in most studies on Civil War battles. The reader is concerned with Tennessee raids, Port Hudson, Little Rock and Helena, as well as with Chickamauga, and in this volume finds more on Rosecrans than on Grant. To be sure, Williams' method has it faults. The detailed reporting on minor clashes of arms sometimes obscures the pattern..." @default.
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• W1968278127 title "<i>Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War</i>. Volume V.: <i>Prelude to Chattanooga</i> (review)" @default.
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