Review: Hardly a unique story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2012
I give the author credit for delivering characters and dialogue that fit to the period. For me, though, it seemed implausible that General Longstreet would endanger himself by even following the stranger (it would have been easy for him to have sent others in his place) and even more so that he would so readily accept the stranger's narrative.  But my biggest complaint is that this story is hardly unique.  I was immediately reminded of a Twilight Zone episode ("Still Valley") in which a Confederate officer obtains a magic spell that will freeze the Union soldiers, thereby assuring a victory for the Confederacy.  Sounds very familiar to this story (just replace the spell with zombies).  And, in the Twilight Zone episode (heads up - spoiler for the 50+ year old Twilight Zone episode), the Confederate soldier decides to not invoke the spell at which point we find out the army is set to march to Gettysburg.  Again, a big similarity with this story.  Frankly just too many coincidences to a decades old story for my liking.