The Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War
March 5, 1864, was the day on which the Civil War changed to what the Richmond Examiner called "a war of extermination, of indiscriminate slaughter and plunder." It changed because of a few sheets of paper found on a muddy trail outside Richmond. Their legacy was a new and terrible style of warfare. In a daring but failed cavalry raid to free thousands of Union p...more
Paperback, 298 pages
Published
November 17th 1999
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published September 1998)
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An admirable attempt but weakly executed. Well-researched, but the huge amount of information often weakens the narative structure. Many decent points are made, but the author never fully ties them all together.
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