Dr.Richard Mudd

[JMadonna]

I may have to read that book, Jerry. Are there characters in it that I would identify with?

I was going to say that it gave me a better handle on the way YOU think, but I thought better of it.

It's not a character analysis per se, it's how the fog of war shrouded the truth of what was really happening during the last year of the war. How unmatched expectations of success were spun into rumors of success to keep the morale high. To the soldiers in the field these 'wish rumors' were absolutely essential.

These rumors plus the ever present stories of the barbarity of the invading Yankees influenced the generations of southerners that came later.