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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:43 pm 
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I just bought this book. has anyone read this yet.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2022 3:38 pm 
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I can't find any reliable reviews of that work although it appears to be an easy to read broad overview of the conflict. In a preview of several pages that I saw there's a table on page 20 (Men, Money & Material) that seems to sum up the huge task facing the CSA where it lists the Union advantages in various areas including:
Potential Soldiers (Advantage 390%);
Industrial Workers (1,000%);
Gold (210%); and
Industrial Output (1,100%).

Despite appearing to be a broad overview it does appear to cover some battles in detail with lots of maps [I like that] and diagrams on other things. It was interesting to see that the [small] Battle of Ball's Bluff was one covered in detail although some aspects (e.g. casualties) differ from other accounts I've seen. There doesn't appear to be any references in what I saw so it's difficult to see where the author got information on that battle [perhaps there's some detail on that elsewhere in the book].

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