Title: Lacking in Personality Depth
Product review: I found this work sadly lacking in the one aspect that would have made this a darn good read. Background and biographical information on the antagonists of either side is woefully short. We get next to nothing in the way of background info on McCausland and his subordinates, as well as Confederate Gen. Jubal Early or the Union army ersonnel involved. Neither is information on the units involved in this campaign provided. The work is presented, in my opinion, in a way that assumes the reader is knowledgable of the war and soldiers involved. While the movements of the various units before, during, and after the raid are covered quite well, it is written in the mode of a regimental history, dry and without adding much in the way of things that would be interesting to the casual student of the war and campaign. The book reads like an hour by hour trip from Cleveland, Oh. to Philadephia, Pa., and is about as interesting.
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