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Well-written, lively and conceptualized, this was in all, a very good read. The author brings together the backgrounds, experiences, and perceptions of several interesting characters who had uncommon intelligence and potential but also had their own vulnerabilities. None of them really succeeded in other pursuits (excepting Lee as a university president) but the horrific events of the Mexican War prepared them for the atrocities of the US Civil War. I enjoyed the spirited narrative, and learned a lot about the experiences of the book’s main characters. This approach is not only an interesting way to look at the war, but it sheds a great deal of light on how their wartime experiences helped shape these officers lives, professional careers, and, in particular, grasp of the arts and sciences of warmaking. He examines the conflict’s major campaigns and battles. He is particularly good in discussing logistics, the hardships of conducting operations across hundreds of miles of forbidding terrain, of the contrast between regular soldiers and volunteers, and of the Mexican officers and forces.Oddly, Dugard, however, sheds little light on the war as, well, a training ground. The protagonists -- Grant, Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman and Jefferson Davis -- disappear for long stretches. When they surface, they are very much in the moment, and, beyond the obvious, Dugard isnt able to extract a lot of significance to their subsequent careers from what they say or do. The book also has multiple direct quotes and no footnotes to support them. The book also suffers from some strange errors: on page 160, Mr. Dugard states He (Abraham Lincoln)was born in Kentucky and lived there until moving to Illinois at the age of 22. Maybe Mr. Dugard considers the 14 years that the Lincoln family spent in Indiana as just passing through? The Lincolns moved to Illinois when Abe was 21 and they had lived in Spencer County Indiana since he was 7. Also, Dugard writes that George Washington had descendants; that a percussion cap was waterproof and rifles using them did not need to use the paper and ball cartridges; and that Abraham Lincoln was shot several days after the Civil War ended--as opposed to after Lee surrendered. Picketts Charge at Gettysburg was with cavalry (it was an infantry charge), and that dysentery at a US Army camp on the Rio Grande was caused by soldiers urinating in the river (its spread by defecation). And on on page 361, the author describes James Longstreet as a Virginian. He was born in South Carolina. Also Richard Ewell apparently commanded the Third Corps at Gettysburg; John Pope apparently led the Army of the Potomac at Cedar Mountain; Jackson was “shot three times by a sentry” at Chancellorsville; Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1859; and George E. Pickett “led one of the most famous cavalry charges in the history of modern warfare.” Also he writes In 1813 he abandoned his family and traveled to Barbados at the behest of President James Monroe... Madison was president at the time, not Monroe.In all, however, quite an interesting book.
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