Books Received

at all times, particularly in the consideration of controversial personalities and issues. It is at these points that the discussion is especially thorough and most satisfying. Lee and Meade undergo a brilliant, chapter-long historical, military, and psychological analysis as reader preparation for the Gettysburg assault. The author's military criticism is always measured and profound, undoubtedly the result in part of a lifetime of military activity, including command positions in the two world wars. A variety of materials—memoirs, diaries, letters, dispatches , military studies, biography—was drawn upon to produce this coherent and clear study. The maps, pictures and drawings are unusually helpful, attractive , and well selected. The readable paragraphs are at their best on handsome pages of easy-to-read print. The bibliography lists but twenty-four tides, hardly adequate preparation for writing a survey book on a subject with so huge a literature. The author has, however, drawn upon the fundamental sources. There is some frustration in the baldness that results from the writer's effort for clarity and conciseness. Particularly is this obvious in that time-honored but now obsolete device in historical writing, the prologue and epilogue. These should have been omitted. The minor sins of the author do not detract to any perceptible degree from his notable contribution . A Pennsylvania general wins Gettysburg again! LeRoy H. Fischer Stillwater, Oklahoma. Books Received Carse, Robert. Blockade: The Civil War at Sea. (New York: Rinehart & Company. 1958. Pp. 279. $5.00.) Eisenschiml, Otto. Why the Civil War? (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1958. Pp. 208. $3.75.) Haskell, Frank Aretas. The Battle of Gettysburg. Edited by Bruce Carton. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1958. Pp. xviii, 169. $3.50.) Hassler, William Woods. A. P. Hill: Lee's Forgotten General. (Richmond, Virginia: Garrett & Massie. 1957. Pp. xiv, 249. $3.95.) Gibson, John M. Soldier in White: The Life of General George Miller Sternberg . (Durham, North Carolina·. Duke University Press. 1958. Pp. 277. $6.75. ) Reviewed in this issue. Nuermberger, Ruth Ketring. The Clays of Alabama. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press. 1958. Pp. 342. $7.50.) Ross, Fitzgerald. Cities and Camps of the Confederate States. Edited by Richard B. Harwell. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1958. Pp. xxii, 262. $4.50.) 470 ...