Battine, Cecil. Crisis of the confederacy: a history of Gettysburg and the Wilderness. $5. Longmans.
“This volume is substantially a history of the American civil war, though special attention is given to the Gettysburg campaign (June 27th-July 14th, 1863), and to Grant’s operations in the Wilderness in May and June, 1864.... The story of years of serious fighting is compressed into something less than four hundred pages. Then comes a chapter in which the lessons of the war are drawn in a very instructive way.” (Spec.) There are six maps in the book, and a colored frontispiece showing the battle flags of the confederacy.
“Captain Battine has done faithful and able work in his book, and it must remain a permanent contribution to the history of the crisis of the Confederacy.” J. P. S.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 178. O. ‘05. 1330w. |
“If he has nothing very new to say on the subject, he has the gift of writing a clear narrative. Would be improved by a better index and by more references to authorities.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 195. Je. 16, ‘05. 590w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 201. Ap. 1, ‘05. 350w. |
“Capt. Battine tries to be fair, and is on the whole.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 258. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1270w. |
“Excellently lucid narrative. Our readers can hardly find a more satisfactory narrative, with so much matter in so moderate a space.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 411. Mr. 18, ‘05. 100w. |