Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War
by Donald McCaig

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Book Review: One of the True Classics of Civil War Fiction
Summary: 5 Stars

Here are partisans--an increasingly popular and overblown subject of Civil War fiction--that are credible in their frightening amorality, and common soldiers of the Confederacy who emerge as truly heroic in their quotidian battle to survive the horrors of war. In fact, McCaig's dry-eyed and lifelike character protrayals are the greatest achievement of "Jacob's Ladder," or would be if his retelling of the last battles of the Army of Northern Virginia weren't such a tour de force--and so deeply affecting. At any rate, here is an author who is just as gifted at creating characters as he is at recreating war and its many terrors.

I wholeheartedly recommend this epic treatment to lovers of American history and to all lovers of a good tale. I do have one niggling question, however: Why did the publisher choose to place a detail from the famous diorama treatment of the Battle of Atlanta on the cover of this novel so intimately connected to the battles for Petersburg and Richmond?

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