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• W2054202013 abstract "174CIVIL WAR HISTORY leasing, with little investigation of manuscript sources. What is necessary is for an individual to select one state and intensively explore the records, including prison papers, and build an interpretation from this base. As yet, we do not have a solid and imaginative investigation of leasing in any state. Fierce has attempted to leapfrog this stage and synthesize the available studies. Historians may find a few sections worthwhile, but for the most part the information will be well-known to scholarly readers. Barry A. Crouch Gallaudet University Lee's Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 18621865 . Edited by R. Lockwood Tower, with John S. Belmont. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. 343. $29.95.) The most historically useful letters of Civil War soldiers tend to lie at two poles: they let us eavesdrop on decision making at headquarters, or they make us slog with enlistees through bouts of boredom, fatigue, sickness, and combat. The reader comes to this well-edited collection of 1 10 letters from Walter Herrón Taylor expecting the first sort, since this young Virginian officer served on General Lee's small staffthrough the entire war and since the book's dustjacket promises an intimate look atRobert E. Lee by an insider. But Colonel Taylor doesn't oblige. Written as relief from piles of military paperwork, these are letters Taylor used to recover his spiritual bearings and to woo his decidedly reluctant belle, the well-connected Bertie Saunders, much more than to analyze Confederate military and political developments. As a result, military historians will have to sift mounds of formulaic religious and romantic writing to find some nuggets. They are there, however. Taylor describes the ordeal of evaluating the exaggerated & stampeding telegrams from Confederate commanders, each convinced that the Union army is concentrating upon him alone: I don't believe half of their contents and yet it is a terrible responsibility to assume, to disregard them (96-97). Instead of the saintly Lee of later legend, Taylor tells of a demanding, unappreciative commander whom he could serve under for ten years to come and couldn't love him at the end of that period (182). And beginning with the Wilderness campaign in May 1864, Taylor's weekly letters provide useful vignettes of camp life and details on Confederate troop movements. Yet because he usually was not privy to Lee's plans or his consultations with other generals and Jefferson Davis, Taylor had to guess Lee's thoughts. And since the young assistant adjutant-general was an incurable optimist who also did not want to upset his fiancée, his rosy estimates of Confederate fortunes—that Gettysburg was a Southern victory, that Sherman's march could be stopped, and that the Union would sue for peace in the winter of 1864-65—are neither accurate nor reflective of his commander's thinking. Taylor's published memoir, Four Years with book reviews175 General Lee ( 1 878), which reprinted parts of twenty or so of these letters, revised some of thesejudgments and included many episodes not mentioned in his correspondence. To get the full story of Lee and the Confederates' war through Taylor's eyes, military historians will have to weigh the two volumes together. Cultural historians may also feel a bit shortchanged, for in the end this is a love story—and a pretty good one—with only one side told. Bettie Saunders held out for a decade; Taylor won her not with bold strokes like his hero Stonewall Jackson but with dogged persistence like his enemy General Grant. Even then she made him burn her letters, although she later wrote a reminiscence of their dramatic, tearful wedding in Richmond the night before the Confederate capital fell (reprinted as Appendix 1 in Lee 's Adjutant). Still, half a loaf is better than none, especially since Taylor's letters, with their expressions of personal piety, idealized romance, and military bravado, are textbook examples of the Old South's chivalric code. Carl J. Guarneri St. Mary's College of California Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of South Carolina in the Civil War. By Richard B. McCaslin. (Fayetteville, Ark.: The University of Arkansas..." @default.
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