Reviews for Love amid the Turmoil: The Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermilion

The average rating for Love amid the Turmoil: The Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermilion based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-25 00:00:00 Jan Kees Saltet This book offers great insight into several different subjects that military history or American history buffs should find interesting. McClellan's diary and letters give the reader a window into mid-19th Century West Point, the life of a junior Army officer of the time, the Mexican War, and military engineering. There's also a lot here for anyone interested in George McClellan's life and his professional development as a soldier. Cutrer did nice work in editing this volume. He provides excellent contextual information at the beginning of each chapter, to help flesh out McClellan's accounts. In addition, detailed and copious notes at the end of each chapter also help clarify McClellan's writings.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-07-09 00:00:00 Mike Schuster McClellan was around 20 at the time he wrote his Mexican War diary, and he was too much of a callow youth to have produced much of interest. Except for giving the reader the opportunity to do some Civil War celebrity spotting (Look! There's Lee in the text, and Beauregard!) what McClellan wrote is pretty banal. I did notice, however, that though McClellan mentions his friend Gustavus Smith a lot, Smith, in his own Mexican War memoir, doesn't mention McClellan much at all despite the fact that they worked together every day for months on end.