Review: Only OK
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2012
This is an OK story. That's the best you can say about it.The major characters speak to each other in extremely stilted, unrealistic, language that wouldn't be heard even inside a Phd English Grammar seminar, which is offputting. The author's knowledge of the Civil War is minimal ... it's a *Minie* ball, not a Mini-Ball, that the rifles fired and Dynamite wasn't available until 1867, four years after the end of the Civil War section of the novel.I doubt seriously that a Captain would be jumped to Brigadier General, especially one with no military training, and certainly not after merely commanding the equivalent of a Company in a single skirmish.The author's knowledge of things military is obviously as minimal as his knowledge of the Civil War, for that reason alone, and for the completely ridiculous tactics that he suggests are successful ... all in all, it's probably worth the couple of dollars I spent on it, but not more than that.