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]]> By: Gill & Stinebeck http://www.bloggernews.net/117847#comment-636800 Gill & Stinebeck Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:44:31 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/117847#comment-636800 Thank you for your thoughtful and well-written review. We would like to comment on some of your questions. There were several scenes that made clear Thomas' struggle with his choice to fight for the North and his reasons for turning down promotions, particularly the tent scenes with Swain. He was a man who understood the need for a war to keep the Union whole. He had many friends--especially Robert E. Lee and John Bell Hood--and, needless to say, Grant, Sherman, and Schofield became enemies in their different ways. The passages with them or about them appear throughout the novel. We felt very strongly that to create whole chapters of total fiction in order to depict how his character was formed would have been insulting to a very private man, since he did by choice have all of his papers destroyed upon his death. Scannell Gill and David Stinebeck Thank you for your thoughtful and well-written review. We would like to comment on some of your questions. There were several scenes that made clear Thomas’ struggle with his choice to fight for the North and his reasons for turning down promotions, particularly the tent scenes with Swain. He was a man who understood the need for a war to keep the Union whole. He had many friends–especially Robert E. Lee and John Bell Hood–and, needless to say, Grant, Sherman, and Schofield became enemies in their different ways. The passages with them or about them appear throughout the novel. We felt very strongly that to create whole chapters of total fiction in order to depict how his character was formed would have been insulting to a very private man, since he did by choice have all of his papers destroyed upon his death.

Scannell Gill and David Stinebeck

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