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BOOK REVIEWSl6l rary detractors. Robert E. Lee complained he spent too much time attacking sutlers instead of military targets. Generals Thomas L. Rosser and Jubal Early accused him of hampering morale and encouraging desertions because their infantry envied the partisans' detached and seemingly easy-going duties, not to mention opportunities for licensed plundering (in, 134-36, 160-63). Rosser and Early's criticisms were most likely motivated by jealousy, as Mosby was personally honest (though given the nature ofhis duties occasionally disregarded regulations) and gained more favor int he Confederate press than the two generals combined. What is particularly appealing about this book is the attention paid to Mosby's postwar career. His rise and postwar fall as a Confederate hero, becoming a Southern Republican, friendship with Ulysses S. Grant, and role as a leading critic of Lee's Gettysburg campaign are all well documented in five chapters. He became an efficient reformer whose distinguished federal career as consul to Hong Kong, a land agent for the Department ofthe Interior, and as a Department ofJustice attorney brought him international respect as he crusaded against corruption with as much enthusiasm as he had fought Yankees. Ramage has done a masterfuljob ofresearching newly-available unpublished sources such as Mosby's personal scrapbooks at the University of Virginia Library . His bibliographic essay is a boon not only for Mosby studies but other aspects of the war such as military justice and guerrilla warfare (401-5). The test is accompanied by clear maps and relevant photographs; the end papers' map of Mosby's theater of operations will help readers keep track of the many locales mentioned. While one might wish for more elaboration about Mosby's attitudes toward slavery andAfricanAmericans duringReconstruction, and others might argue fewer chapters would have made for a more focused narrative, this study seems destined to become a primer in Civil War biographical writing— and rightfully so. Ervin L. Jordan Jr. University of Virginia No Band of Brothers: Problems of the Rebel High Command. By Steven E. Woodworth. (Columbia: University ofMissouri Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 182. $29.95.) Steven Woodworth is an energetic Civil War historian. During the past decade he wrote three books and edited at least four others. His first, Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West (1990) made a worthy contribution to the understanding of the Confederate war effort in the west and to President Davis as war leader. Woodworth then turned his attention to the eastern theater. Davis andLee at War (1995) concentated on the relationship betwen the two men; this time Woodworth covered much famiUar ground, while emphasizing Lee as the more aggressive of the two. Next, he went back west with Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chatta- IÓ2CIVIL WAR HISTORY nooga Campaigns (1998). Three edited volumes contain contributions by numerous scholars and deal with bibliography and issues of command. The fourth is Woodworth's edition of a Union soldier's dairy and letters. No Band ofBrothers is a compilation ofWoodworth's own articles, aU but one of which have been previously pubUshed. In these pieces, Woodworth starts from the premise that "the South lost a very winnable conflict, and among the many reasons for that loss was the performance of the Confederate high command" (xii). The book's title clearly states the conflict he sees as all too prevalent among the leaders of the Confederate military effort. Investigating the high command, Woodworth ranges widely: from discussing commanders at set-piece battles, Williamsburg and Bermuda Hundred, to relations among the leading generals and between them and their commander in chief. In fact, six focus on Jefferson Davis. As one would expect in a collection of this kind, the articles vary in quaUty. A few—like the ones on Jefferson Davis and the trans-Mississippi and Davis, Leónidas Polk, and Kentucky neutraUty—are based primarily on original research, albeit mostly in the Official Records. Some, however, such as those on Braxton Bragg and Chickamauga and Davis, John B. Hood, and theArmy of Tennessee, depend chiefly on secondary sources. Still, this volume will appeal to the reader with a real interest in Confederate miUtary history. William J...

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