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(More customer reviews)Mr. Frazier simply doesn't know his Civil War history, managing to cram an astonishing number of errors into a small book. For example: Did you know that Thomas commanded the Army of the Cumberland at the battle of Chickamauga? (And I bet you thought it was Rosecrans.) Or that Bragg launched his attack from Chattanooga against the Federal advance from the southeast? (Which brings up the question how the heck did the defeated Federals manage to take shelter in the city?)
Ten minutes with BOATNER or any encyclopedia would have given Frazier a correct picture of the war's second largest battle. That he hasn't bothered to do that elementary research throws his entire methodology into question.
Frazier is barely better on the subject matter of the book: the untimely death of a number of Confederate generals during Reconstruction. In only a single case does he add much not already printed in GENERALS IN GRAY. Without anything really to say, he tries out some anti-government rhetoric but seems to lose interest even in that vain effort to save this dismal little book.
Frazier represents that class of amateur Civil War writers without the historical training or the intellectual integrity to take up so large a subject. Save your money; the book (published through a vanity press) isn't worth a dime.
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