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Title: McPherson takes the easy way out and sides with his own bias
Review: James McPherson did an admirable job compiling a wealth of information and presenting it in the early stages of "Battle Cry of Freedom," then dismissed with a wave of his pen to embark upon an anti-Southern crusade. He fell back upon the old trick of painting the Confederate Army as a sea of amorphous white faces, devoid of racial or ethnic diversity. He tiptoed around the thousands of African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and the multiple immigrant groups who joined the Confederate Army and fought side-by-side. Where did he document the Emerald Guard, the Mobile German Fusiliers, the 1st Choctaw (or the other 28 tribes who fought in gray), or the Spanish Legion? This book is awash with personal antipathy and politically correct revisionist historical claptrap.
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