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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Leaders of the Lost Cause: Succinct and On Target essays on Confederate High Command!By C. M MillsGary Gallagher and Joseph T. Glaathaar are two of our most eminent Civil War scholars! In this new volume they have asked several Civil War scholars to write brief essays on the eight men who were full generals of the Confederate States of America.All of the articles are of high quality:.1 P.G.T. Beauregard by Charles Roland. The doughty Creole wasthe hero of Ft. Sumter and served well during the siege of Petersburg. His service during First Bull Run was exemplary.He was not up to the top notch of battlefield leadership; coming up with some chimerical strategic ideas during the last months of the war. His servicewas good not great.2. Braxton Bragg by the eminent Jackson biographer Bud Robertsonshows this grouchy and inept commander at his worst.3. Samuel Cooper is little known today but William C. Davis gives him a passing grade as the administrative leader of theConfederate government. Cooper was born in 1798; was northern born and never held a field command for the South.4. Albert Sidney Johnson is dubbed the Hamlet of the South by Stephen D. Engle. Johnston died at Shiloh. He was a close friend of Jefferson Davis. What might have been had he lived to fight further battles is pure conjecture.5. Snarl; Sneer and Quarrel is the opinion of Robert K. Krick the acerbic writer of the article on Joseph E. Johnston. Johnston's Fabian tactics of retreat in the Georgia campaign was a failed stategy. Krick is a great historian and his article isworth the price of the book!6. It was the dubious duty of Edmund Kirby Smith the Florida native to defend the Trans Missssippi region during the war.He was a good subordinate but was in way over his head at sucha difficult assignmentaccording to Joseph T. Glatthaar whosearticle is well done.7. Keith S. Bohannon's picture of John Bell Hood is a man of all brawn and dash but little in the brain department! He was promoted beyond his abilities as he led grey legions in the Atlanta and Tennessee campaigns of 1864.8. Robert Edward Lee was a great geneal who led the Confederate armies with bloody tenacity. Gary Gallagher is one of my favorite Civil War authors and his portrait of Lee is limned with excellent scholarship and judicious appraisal. This is a good book to whet the appetite of readers eager tolearn more about Civil War leadership. As an old Civil War buff I learned some new angles to these commanders. The book is wellrecommended for someone just getting their feet wet in the vastocean of Civil War scholarship. Excellent!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy R. KillianWell researched Civil War accounts of events in 1862.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy stephen j stabackmakes you think what if stonewall jackson had been one of them