Comments on: Review in Brief: Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War by Earl J. Hess http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2008/06/09/review-in-brief-field-armies-and-fortifications-in-the-civil-war-by-earl-j-hess/ Informed Amateurs Blog the American Civil War Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Gil R. http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2008/06/09/review-in-brief-field-armies-and-fortifications-in-the-civil-war-by-earl-j-hess/comment-page-1/#comment-781 Gil R. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:44:39 +0000 http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/?p=1193#comment-781 I read Hess's book doing research for a computer game project and definitely found it worthwhile. It's an odd book, since EVERYTHING is looked at from the perspective of field fortifications. Case in point, it goes on for a number of pages about Chancellorsville, but doesn't mention Stonewall Jackson getting killed -- after all, that had nothing to do with field fortifications! I read Hess’s book doing research for a computer game project and definitely found it worthwhile. It’s an odd book, since EVERYTHING is looked at from the perspective of field fortifications. Case in point, it goes on for a number of pages about Chancellorsville, but doesn’t mention Stonewall Jackson getting killed — after all, that had nothing to do with field fortifications!

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