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Title: General A.P. Hill : The Story of a Confederate Warrior by Jr. James I. Robertson ISBN: 0-679-73888-6 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 July, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Sloppy piece of hack work
Comment: For those used to Robertson's ponderous and derivitive offerings, this will come as no surprise. His "find" that Hill suffered from V.D. has been readily apparent to anyone who ever read the general's correspondence (and who can recognize a 19th century euphamism). As for the rest, Roberston's factual blunders (like his ridiculous mention of the non-existent shoe factory in Gettysburg) are surpassed only by his uncritical fawning over his subject.
A. P. Hill was a fine soldier. He deserves a better biographer.
Rating: 5
Summary: Justice Given to Hill
Comment: A few months ago I saw a civil war magazine in the racks at the bookstore it had an article about the fifty best generals in the war I flipped through the list naturally you have Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson, James longstreet, and U.S. Grant but A. P. Hill is not he is cast aside by the likes of Benjamin "Spoons" Butler. Likewise he has few scenes in "Gods and Generals" and Gettysburg an earlier book on him Lee's forgotten general hit it right on the nose.
Now howver famed Civil War historian James I., Jr. Robertson gives a revealing look at the Confederacy's forgotten hero. A feirce warrior and proud man almost to a fault Hill is not as famous as Jackson or Lee who have endless amounts of books written on them. This book made me know more of Hill than any previous source. It exstensively covers Hill's role in all the battles he was in and also attempts to trace why Hill was not as effective as commander of the 3rd Corp as he was in command of his famed Light Division (the largest in the confederate army). You will come away from this book with a greater understanding of A.P. Hill as a man as well as a commander. Hill was not without failure but he is definitely not given full justice in the history books here's to Robertson for attempting to correct that.
Rating: 5
Summary: New Information on Lee's Impulsive General and Petersburg
Comment: Dr. Robertson the historian teams up with VA. Tech's former atheltic physician Dr. Bullock to determine the cause of AP Hill's famous decline after promotion in regards to health and action after he was promoted to Corps Commander after Jackson's death. While many though of Hill as a case of the "Peter Principal" it is apparent from the descriptions of Hill's physical decline and symptoms that Hill was slowly dying of syphllis. The inability of his kidneys to function properly caused Hill sleepless nights and left him virtually unable to command. This book is the first to determin ethecause of Hill's physoical collapse. Some very good descriptions of the impulsive Hill who starts the 7 Days campaign prematurely when Jackson is late or lost, his famous role at Harpers Ferry, his mercruial temperment with Longstreet and Jackson and his severe failure at Bristow Station where he launches his corps into a virtual ambush without any reconnoitering. His role at Gettysburg is somewhat of a mystery but his illness may have contributed. Best parts of the book center on Hill and his corps at Petersburg where his divisions would swing out of the trenches and into the woods and hit Grant's probing left flanks from vitually any angle. Interesting fact that Hill was burried four times after death due to some unique circumstances. Hill's legacy survives with less criticism than Lngstreet because the south was always kinder to their dead heroes than the living.
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Title: Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend by James I., Jr. Robertson ISBN: 0028646851 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: They Called Him Stonewall by Burke Davis ISBN: 0517662043 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Jeb Stuart : The Last Cavalier by Burke Davis ISBN: 0517185970 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray (Southern Biography Series) by Thomas Harry Williams ISBN: 0807119741 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Gray Fox : Robert E. Lee and the Civil War by Burke Davis ISBN: 0517347725 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 19 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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