Forgotten Valor: The Memoirs, Journals, & Civil War Letters of Orlando B. Willcox (History Book Club Selection)
Forgotten Valor contains the experiences, observations and correspondence of a major military figure who hasn't been heard from previously. That in itself makes the book noteworthy since many modern Civil War books are recycled, reorganized material that has been published before.  . . . More that just a Civil War memoir, the book is a biography of a military man who was a witness to much American history of the 19th century.  --The Flint Journal 11/29/99Forgotten Valor is a masterly piece of editing and compilation. . Willcox as a man of dimension and doubt, aspiration and disappointment participating in an immense chapter of his and his nations history is vivid in the book. . . . In short, Orlando Bolivar Willcox, confined as it were, in an old steamer trunk all these years, emerges as an individual and an admirable one, seriously concerned with his religious faith, his family and friends and his country. . . . It is a pleasure to meet him in these pages.  --Washington Times, 10/30/99