Lee’s Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies by Philip Leigh

Lee’s Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies
by Philip Leigh

This book is a keeper. Instead of offering the standard, often incorrect, version of American Civil War history, Philip Leigh digs deeply into many of the conflict’s controversies. His analysis of why George H. Thomas would have made a better commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi, as opposed to General Grant’s choice of William T. Sherman, is alone worth the price of the book.