. Civil War officers. Union . skillfully than McClellan handled his To the Gates of Richmond does not tell thereader much about what underlay the war. Thegrand issues are absent in this account. There islittle here of politics, of slavery and emancipation,of ultimate defeat and victory. But the meaning of the Civil War is not foundsolely in its issues and their resolution. It is alsoembodied in human experiences. Mr. Sears suc-ceeds in conveying something of the texture of thewar as experienced by officers and soldiers in thetwo armies killing one another around Richmond in1862. .Part
. Civil War officers. Union . skillfully than McClellan handled his To the Gates of Richmond does not tell thereader much about what underlay the war. Thegrand issues are absent in this account. There islittle here of politics, of slavery and emancipation,of ultimate defeat and victory. But the meaning of the Civil War is not foundsolely in its issues and their resolution. It is alsoembodied in human experiences. Mr. Sears suc-ceeds in conveying something of the texture of thewar as experienced by officers and soldiers in thetwo armies killing one another around Richmond in1862. .Part of the tragedy of the war — and there-fore, part of the meaning — is that the deaths werenot simply determined by the gods. They wereproducts of individual decisions. At its best, mili-tary history can show us this. To the Gates ofRichmond is military history at its best. If itattracts the audience it deserves, Presidential can-didates can continue to cite the sorry example ofGeorge B. McClellan to make their points. □. Mad, Bad, Still Hard to Know BYRON By Sigrid by Joan pp. North Pomfret, Vt.:Hememann/Trafalgar Square. $ By Suzanne Berne EORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON, re-fine th« moct nntftrimis of ihP Romantic Accordingly, she has chosen to use Byronspoetic theories as her compass in tracing his life, :particularly the theory behind his satiric master-piece Don Juan. In that poem, Byron argues thatTo be portrayed realistically, life must be picturedas an unsystematic series of constantly shiftingperspectives. If a writer should be quite consis-tent he asks, How could he possibly show thingsexistent1? From moment to moment the world isnever the same, and neither are the people in it. Asone character in this novel notes, When you firstaet to Unow a person and then eet to know RICHARI illuminating woand practices ofarchitecture to t«dress—were intrc1700 through 185(American middlthe aristocracy, aithat created a pecand the culture of
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