Title: Old, obsolete
Review: A description of this battle hastily scrawled by a special correspondent for a contemporary paper, scrawled by a correspondent with a very limited view of the action, could hardly be more out-of-date. The vision of the American Civil War presented by this book at least isn't partisan: it is, well, centennial! Alot of books came out during, and leading up to the centennial, and most of them aren't any good. Foote, and Catton are enjoyable writers, but history-writing has changed alot since ca.1960. Keegan's "Face of Battle" really changed the whole historiographic scene, and that's too bad, in a way. I have some affection for this old stuff (Stackpole, Francis Lord, etc.) but it just don't play anymore.
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