Re: [DL] McGlothlin's War of Northern Aggression:-) Book Club

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

 >       Varola's book is of much more recent vintage, so it naturally 
reads better
 >to a modern audience. It's much less anecdotal than Wiley's books (for
 >better and for worse), and gives much more information about civilian life
 >(which is why I thought it'd be of special interest to Marshals).

Thanks.  It's going on the list.
While I didn't have too much of a problem with Billy Yank's anecdotes, as 
it was just the author backing up his claims with evidence - it seems the 
author went through great pains to present both sides of EVERY issue.
Sure there were racists in the Union, and there were emancipators. . . and 
there those who were of low moral character and those of incredible 
morality. . . good officers and bad officers. . . good doctors and bad 
doctors. . . good preachers and bad preachers. . . those who liked the 
cavalry and those who hated them. . . those who saw things to enjoy and 
respect in the South and it's people, and those who saw nothing that they 
liked. . . those who liked the Emancipation Proclamation and those who 
didn't. . .

BUT when he went so far as to say there were those who hated the Army food 
AND there were those who LIKED it. . . that's just taking equal time too 
DERN FAR.

No soldier likes army food.  It's in the enlistment contract. :)

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