Magisterial and definitive. Readers who found the first volume rather stilted in its prose will be pleased to see that Bearss had improved his writing for this second volume. He even includes a number of first-person accounts, albeit primarily in footnotes. The campaign really picks up steam in this volume, and Bearss does an excellent job of tracking the movements and battles along with descriptive text and analysis. The maps are terrible, hopefully you have Warren Grabau's 68-map "Ninety-Eight Days" close at hand for reference. ( )