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Title: Whoa! Author is mixing apples with oranges
Review: It is strange for this book to compare the career of Jeb Stuart, Lee's chief-of-cavalry until 1864, with George Custer. Phil Sheridan was Grant's cavalry chief and Custer's commander. Therefore, comparing Stuart to Sheridan is more correct. It then follows that, although Sheridan did favor Custer among his lieutenants, it is monstrously wrong to state 1 man (Custer), and not his commander (Sheridan), drove the Confederates out of the Shenandoah Valley and stopped Lee at Appommatox. (In fact, it is almost legend how Sheridan, by personally leading a counter-charge at the last Valley battle at Cedar Creek, was himself most responsible for ending the Valley campaign.) It is incredible that the book reviews above repeat such inaccuracies. There are much better books of both generals.
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