re: #210 jamesfirecat

Thanks, sadly I only know of him because I read harry Turtledove, who I only got into reading because I read Guns of the South, which I only read because it had a picture of Robert E. Lee holding an AK-47 on the cover…

(Though I was marginally interested in the civil war before that, just never stuff that happened off to the west…)

Part of the reason Hood was successful commanding a division was that he served under the steady James Longstreet.

I liked “Guns of the South”. Turtledove did a good job portraying the Army of Northern Virginia and its commander. Some disagree with his depiction of General Lee, but he admits in the afterword that he ignored the ‘revisionist’ image of Lee in is his writing. He based his view of Marse Robert off of Lee’s letters and papers.