Elennsar
Colonel
- Joined
- May 14, 2008
- Location
- California
As a fellow owner of a copy of Plenty of Blame to Go Around, I couldn't agree more.
My point though is that Marshall could be honest and still wrong - I don't care whether he was deliberately making up stuff or just ignorant, Wittenberg's book does a better job of describing Stuart's decisions than Marshall's, whatever merits Marshall's may have for the POV from Lee's HQ.
Also, it gives a good account of what the Union cavalry was up to as far as how it interacted with Stuart. Talking about Stuart's ride without talking about Federal horsemen going to great lengths to inconvenience him is incomplete at best.