WITH SHERIDAN IN THE FINAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST LEE, by Lt. Col. Frederick C. Newhall, Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Eric J. Wittenberg, ed., Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 2002, 212 pages, $39.95.
For much of the Civil War, Lieutenant Colonel Frederick C. Newhall served as provost marshal and staff officer for Union cavalry commander Lieutenant General Philip Sheridan. Written in 1866, Newhall's memoir records events fresh in his mind. As erudite as he is at times, ...